[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by matese

Back in the days lol, housebreaking a dog was training it to potty out doors after it was paper trained and all shots were given.

I absolutely agree Veterinarian technology has escalated since I last had a puppy, I always follow what my vet tells me, however, I would still wait for all core vaccines to be given before I took a puppy out, it's not necessary to rush to get a baby out. They will have a lifetime of outdoors once they are fully protected, so keeping them indoors for a few weeks is no big deal, I wouldn't want anyone fawning over my puppy with just 2 vaccines. My vet gives 2 vaccines at one time, since joining YT it is advised to give one shot, wait 2 weeks then get the 2nd one, another piece of advise that made sense to me, so that is what I now do. Several years ago my senior girl had a bad reaction to getting 2 vaccines at the same time, vaccines that she had always gotten with no reactions, I never want any of my babies to ever go through that, so we take one vaccine at a time now.

Joey had reactions with his vaccines too he only ever gets one and I give him Benadryl before and he ends up having to have 2 days of pain meds. He is the first one I ever had this issue with and it scared the crap out of me. He seemed to have the biggest reaction to Lyme but it’s necessary for us and if I do the Benadryl and pain meds he seems ok. Any dog under 20 pounds should really only ever get one and I wish every vet did that. Some just load them up.