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Originally Posted by JeanieK Before I got Ollie and Chachi, I never got my dogs vaccinated, after their original series of puppy shots, and none of them ever caught anything. The reason I did with Ollie and Chachi is because I want to breed them and thought that it was important. Now after reading that I will reconsider.
However, don't most cities require a rabies vacine in order to licnese the dog. and you have to get a new license every year, which means shots every year.
I also have never licensed a dog, becase they never had their shots. |
In my city you do have to have a rabies certificate to license your dog, but you don't have to have your dog re-vaccinated for rabies every year, only when the certificate expires, which is every three years after the 1 year booster. The city does not require any other vaccinations besides rabies to license a dog.
I keep my dogs licensed with the city I live in after I heard about a woman's yorkie being given away to someone else, even though she had called the SPCA to claim her lost dog. Even though the dog was still at the SPCA when she went to pick her baby up, the city told her her dog had already been adopted out. Legally, this held because the dog was not licensed. Apparently the hold time for a dog picked up by the pound is much less if the dog is not licensed. I don't take any chances after hearing this, and license my dogs (they are also microchiped).