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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  I always do bordetella because I would rather prevent my dog from getting kennel cough instead of treating the kennel cough after its gotten. If Lepto is something that is in your area I would get the vaccine. My mom had an animal that died of Lepto so I make sure my dog has that. We also have a tick problem here so I make sure to get Callie the Lyme vaccine as well. I know lots of people worry about over vaccination but I also worry about my dog not being vaccinated against something she could be and ends up catching it and having to go through being sick and through treatment for it when for all we know it could hurt, the sickness and the treatment when they made a vaccine for it. |
I do agree that it depends on your dogs lifestyle. But I still feel that over-vaccinating causes much more harm than good.
I've done bordatella because Jackson has had KC twice in his life and prefer not to deal with it. However it was super easy to treat, for us, and gone within a few days of antibiotics. So the bordatella is usually the only "non core" vaccine that I give, due to us constantly being at dog parks, pet stores, other dogs, etc.
Jackson tested positive for lymes after coming up limping, so he was actually showing symptoms. He was treated very easily and back to normal within a day of meds (that were not very expensive). His lyme test is now negative and I keep him on either advantix and frontline all year, which I feel is enough prevention. Our vet does not recommend the lymes vaccine for us, especially since people are trying to link the vaccine to possible kidney problems and sometimes even symptoms that make it look like they have Lyme's Disease.
I like this link:
01 Lyme Disease - VeterinaryPartner.com - a VIN company! and
http://www.drschoen.com/articles_L1_11.html
But as far as DHPP... if a dog gets DHPP at 1 year old (or even their puppy vaccines) they are typically immune for life. Sometimes you may have to re-booster once in the dogs life but certainly not every year, or even every 3 years. I will most likely titer Jackson later this year to see how much adequate response he still has to the vaccines he received in the past... but there is no reason to believe that vaccinations do not last for the life of the dog. Duration of immunity studies are proving that to be true.
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The present study examines the DOI for core viral vaccines in dogs that had not been revaccinated for as long as 9 years. These animals had serum antibody to canine distemper virus (CDV), canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV-2) and canine adenovirus type-1 (CAV-1) at levels considered protective and when challenged with these viruses, the dogs resisted infection and/or disease. Thus, even a single dose of modified live virus (MLV) canine core vaccines (against CDV, cav-2 and cpv-2) or MLV feline core vaccines (against feline parvovirus [FPV], feline calicivirus [FCV] and feline herpesvirus [FHV]), when administered at 16 weeks or older, could provide long-term immunity in a very high percentage of animals, while also increasing herd immunity.
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Age and long-term protective immunity in dogs ... [J Comp Pathol. 2010] - PubMed - NCBI
This is another good read:
Science of Vaccine Damage