[Britster]

I waited to give Jackson the rabies shot until about 6 1/2 months too. He had a reaction to Lepto before so I was just nervous about the rabies.

When I brought him in to get neutered, they said he was required to have the rabies vaccine so they were going to give him rabies & neuter at the same time. I was very nervous about that (and I'm NOT the nervous type!) but I just didn't want him to have a reaction while under anesthesia. I expressed my concerns to the vet and even though her vet techs had told me otherwise, she agreed and said to just schedule him for Rabies two weeks after his neuter. He came out of the surgery with flying colors, and two weeks later, I brought him back for Rabies and they gave him a shot of Benadryl beforehand just to be safe. Everything went a-okay! Bordatella is probably fine to do on the same day because I believe it's just shot up the nose, it's not a needle or whatever. It's not a "dangerous" vaccine and not known to cause reactions (except SOME have stated their dogs got kennel cough because of the vaccine, kind of like the human flu shot)