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Originally Posted by 107barney  We have lepto here. I don't give the shot to my younger dogs and haven't given it to the older dogs for about 7 years now. The lepto vaccine doesn't cover all the serovars of the disease (strains) and my mostly house dogs are not at a high risk. Unless your dog is going to be in the woods or near stagnant bodies of water or jumps in dirty puddles or wet leaves etc, I'd skip. One of my vets won't give it to toy breeds at all. |
Wow, I did not know that the vax didn't cover ALL of the strains. Yikes. So, it's similar to kennel cough vaccine then, in that it only covers certain strains. Good to know. I had never, ever heard this before...I don't think...?