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Originally Posted by Britster

In order for those to be "effective", they do need to be given yearly. However I do not give those to my dog.

Check out this info about bordatella: Bordetella Vaccination for Dogs: Fraud and Fallacy

I don't trust or like the lymes vaccine either and wouldn't bother with it. Very little of the country is effected by lymes. The lymes tests all give false positives, so none of the tests will actually tell you if the dog has the disease. The tests themselves cost more than the treatment to Lyme. A round of doxycycline can be given, very cheaply, if your dog is showing symptoms. Something like 5% of dogs who are exposed to Lyme ever get sick, it's just not worth it to me considering we have other tick-borne illnesses that can't be vaccinated against, so it's best just to use tick control meds as needed.

I won't give any of the "optional" vaccines, since they don't cover all strains or give full protection anyway.

I think even if its protecting against some strains that's better then protecting against none. Kennel cough is miserable in my opinion coughing for sometimes a month (I have heard it can last that long) would just suck. Many many people get the human flu shot and that only covers very very few strains.