I know about the area you live in. However, the bordetella shot every six months is a standard procedure especially for doggie day care in my area. Normally, their only annual shots.
NOTE: Sabu has had kennel cough once. The worst thing about it is the horrid cough sound. For us, it was so bad, I put him in his crate at night till he got better. For Sabu, it was handled with a prescription for a week. Till then, we dealt with that couch. You would have thought rather than bringing up a hairball, it was a tennis ball
