Rats

[obi2 239]

Is there any innoculations that can prevent weils disease or anything I can do to prevent my dogs catching anything while ratting?

[christian71 3,187]

Should be covered when your dog had its jabs comes under Leptospirosis

Edited June 30, 2011 by christian71

[budgie123 163]

Routine vaccination will cover your dogs for weils disease.

You need to be respectfull of the risks to your health also.

On a pest control forum recently there was a report of a pest controllers son contracting weils disease after undertaking rat control with dogs.

[obi2 239]

thanks guys

[grompz 706]

you can vaccinate your dog once yearly against leptospirosis,i pay about 20 pounds to have the dogs done,well worth doing, as most rats carry the disease,nearly lost a dog through an infected bite a few years ago,watch any open cuts on your hands if in contact with them,also slow moving streams where rats live are havens for it,just be careful.

[Moll. 1,770]

Be aware though. The lepto jab does not cover all strains, there are dozens and dozens of strains and i think the jab covers about seven (if memory serves me right?) So just because your dog has had it's inoculation's still be aware of signs and symptoms of lepto, stop it eating and drinking where rats are etc etc.

[Born Hunter 17,841]

Be aware though. The lepto jab does not cover all strains, there are dozens and dozens of strains and i think the jab covers about seven (if memory serves me right?) So just because your dog has had it's inoculation's still be aware of signs and symptoms of lepto, stop it eating and drinking where rats are etc etc.

 

Your right moll, I seem to recall there being just over 100 different strains and the jab only covering 7 of them as you say. It begs the question, why bother at all?

[Moll. 1,770]

A little help is better than no help at all

[obi2 239]

What can you do to your dog after a days ratting to keep them clean and stop the spread of the disease?

[Moll. 1,770]

I bath mine thoroughly with Hibiscrub when i get home, and no licking faces/hands :sick:

[Millet 4,497]

I had a terrier die from kidney faliure at 8yr old..the vet siad it could of started year's ago when it of picked lepto up when out ratting..but it will of fought the origional infection off without me noticing it..the dog was vaccinated and killed hundred upon hundred's of rat's so you would of thought some kind of immunity would have been built up..but that was sadly not the case for my bitch.

[moonlighter 1,164]

My mate had a bull terrier last year that died from a rat bite. It was vaccinated but that had no effect.

[obi2 239]

did he jag it with penicillian after it had been bit or anything?

[rob190364 2,594]

I had a terrier die from kidney faliure at 8yr old..the vet siad it could of started year's ago when it of picked lepto up when out ratting..but it will of fought the origional infection off without me noticing it..the dog was vaccinated and killed hundred upon hundred's of rat's so you would of thought some kind of immunity would have been built up..but that was sadly not the case for my bitch.

sounds like a bit of an assumption from the vet to be honest, it could have been from the rats, could also have been hereditary, or caused by something else.