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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  I get that with the Lyme but I worry about the bordatella because it’s a short lived one anyway. I got a letter from my vet that my pups need grooming for their health so she’s going to be going to the groomer and I guess I just pray everything goes ok. I asked my vets office if I could buy the vaccines from them and give them myself since I have been trained to do that and was giving Callie her allergy shots but they never got back to me. If our numbers stay the same or get better in the next week then the governor plans to start phase one of opening back up so hopefully that includes the removing of the restrictions on vets. |
I thought unless dogs socialized outside the home around other, strange dogs such as dog parks, dog shows, group play dates, boarding, grooming facilities(during normal times)they were pretty safe from exposure to kennel cough. I hadn't heart that Bordetella vax has a particularly shorter-lived half-life? You mean under one year? What is your source? We all need to know that as most dogs who've had at least original vax and a booster or two has pretty good antibody formation/immunity to most vaccinated diseases, as far as I've always read.
If you can send your vet a copy of your certification to perform certain veterinary tasks professionally, during a global pandemic when he's prevented from giving vaxes himself, alone w/one volunteer helper or aid if he requires it, in the clinic, surely he can write you a prescription for the vaccines and equipment necessary to administer them one time yourself under the circumstances & give you help with where to get that filled in these extra-ordinary times. Otherwise, to avoid stress of getting sick, groom them yourself. They don't have to be professionally done, just clean, nails ground/clipped.