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Originally Posted by ShowGirlLola  I was considering it because it's one less visit to the vet.
She'll probably have to wait at least a week for the surgery, the bloodwork has to come back, they only do it on certain days, and I want a specific vet. |
I understand... But she's a puppy and basically just got done with her puppy vaccines... Giving vaccines too close together doesn't boost the immunity, it negates the vaccine because the last vaccines are still very active and will react to the new vaccine as an invader and will kill it. The only thing it will accomplish is to stress her immune system. An injury or surgery also stresses the immune system. It takes 4 weeks for a vaccine to complete it's work, so optimally surgery would be scheduled around vaccination or vice versa, in order to allow the immune system more strength to deal with the surgery, or to have full function to produce antibodies from the vaccine.
The dog can produce a stronger antibody load if it does one vaccine at a time with no other stressors involved.