boosters

[Guest smoothrun]

A vets way of getting cash out of you or a essential part of owning a dog?

[skycat 6,173]

My own vet tells me that boosters aren't necessay: do the puppy jabs and one booster at about 14 months old, then leave it, apart from the Leptospirosis jab which does need to be done every year as the effects do not last. (This is my vet's opinion, and they are one of the rarities in the job: they don't try to sting you, though I must admit they've had a lot of dosh out of me over the last 20 years or so what with accidents etc.

[Guest Nightwalker]

My own vet tells me that boosters aren't necessay: do the puppy jabs and one booster at about 14 months old, then leave it, apart from the Leptospirosis jab which does need to be done every year as the effects do not last. (This is my vet's opinion, and they are one of the rarities in the job: they don't try to sting you, though I must admit they've had a lot of dosh out of me over the last 20 years or so what with accidents etc.

 

Many of us have pet insurance to cover against big vet bills from working injuries. Most pet insurance policies specify that your dog must have up-to-date boosters or the policy will be invalid, this alone is a good enough reason for me to get my dogs boosters done.

 

No innoculations human or animal are 100% guaranteed to produce good levels of immunity and some animal vacinations like some human vaccinations do need boosters. The manufacturers of most of the brands of vaccines recommend periodic boosters to maintain good levels of immunity and can provide the scientific data on which their recommendations are based. Personally I would rather pay a few quid every year or so and feel more confident that my dogs are protected.

[Guest waldorf]

My own vet tells me that boosters aren't necessay: do the puppy jabs and one booster at about 14 months old, then leave it, apart from the Leptospirosis jab which does need to be done every year as the effects do not last. (This is my vet's opinion, and they are one of the rarities in the job: they don't try to sting you, though I must admit they've had a lot of dosh out of me over the last 20 years or so what with accidents etc.

 

Many of us have pet insurance to cover against big vet bills from working injuries. Most pet insurance policies specify that your dog must have up-to-date boosters or the policy will be invalid, this alone is a good enough reason for me to get my dogs boosters done.

 

No innoculations human or animal are 100% guaranteed to produce good levels of immunity and some animal vacinations like some human vaccinations do need boosters. The manufacturers of most of the brands of vaccines recommend periodic boosters to maintain good levels of immunity and can provide the scientific data on which their recommendations are based. Personally I would rather pay a few quid every year or so and feel more confident that my dogs are protected.

 

 

what aload of rubbish :whistle:

[Ossie 11]

my dad doesn't vaccinate his dogs. his 2 youngest lurchers never even had their puppy jabs. neither did any of his terriers. my brothers 18 year old JR cross had his puppy jabs, as did the old collie x grey, but never had boosters. but they never see other dogs, and my dad is a notorious tightwad (really, sweats when parting with large amounts of money!), & just couldn't see the point in jabbing all of them.

my boy gets his boosters, because there was a really bad outbreak of parvo in norwich a few months ago, and i usually take him with me when i go there to visit friends. better safe than sorry. plus it'd invalidate his insurance, and without jabs it'd be damn hard to get him into kennels (in the event of an emergency. i have a good supply of dog-sitters)

the only jab i think is really essential for working dogs that don't tend to see other dogs (i.e. ones they don't live with) is the leptospirosis shot. the one my vets use is good for 3-4 years, so it ain't gonna break the bank.

i do remember seeing a post in the "working bedlingtons 2005" topic on the terrier forum, someone had bought a lurcher and was assured that it had had it's jabs, then his whole kennel went down with parvo, including two 8 week old pups. like i said, better safe than sorry...

[minion 29]

An intresting subject. I always have and always will get my dogs booster each year. Is it worth the risk to save forty odd quid? For me NO, defenatly not. Plus, if you need to put them in the kennels to go on holiday or something you need the certificate to get them in. (well, at my kennels you do)

[Guest lamper/gatherer]

ihave a 16 year old colliexspaniel,still working at her great age, she was injected as a pup,but since she was 2 i haven`t had her jabbed,she`s never had any problems.

[Simoman 110]

my dad doesn't vaccinate his dogs. his 2 youngest lurchers never even had their puppy jabs.

 

Lets hope your dad never sees what lepto or parvo can do to a dog

 

I vaccinate and boost as others have mentioned, if I want to put them in kennels I need them, also we have been looking at emmigrating and would need the dogs to be upto date. I know a couple of vets who don't believe annual boosters are neccersary as the innoculations last longer than a year but this is done for ease, and i'm sure for profit.

[Ossie 11]

my dad doesn't vaccinate his dogs. his 2 youngest lurchers never even had their puppy jabs.

 

Lets hope your dad never sees what lepto or parvo can do to a dog

 

 

we've only had one go down with lepto, Fern, my 3 year old saluki/grey x beddy/whippet/grey, she'd had her jabs and still got it . bloody rats pissing in the dogs water bowls . but that was about 15 years ago, since then mum has got a pretty impressive collection of cats, and *touch wood* they haven't seen more than a rat tail outside the backdoor for nearly ten years. getting rid of the chickens helped too!

he doesn't take the dogs out with other peoples dogs either, he's not shown a dog since i lost my original JR bitch ten years ago (i was always the one hassling to go to all the shows, he took a couple of lurchers along too for a bit of fun!), and dad doesn't work them seriously, just takes them all out for the occasional run on his permissions. they never see other dogs, so the chances of them getting parvo are pretty remote.

i'll always jab my dog (and any future dogs i have) as my boy goes all over the place with me, and it's just not worth the risk. too nice a dog to lose like that.

[Guest wag37]

I HAVE HAD DOGS INJECTED AND STILL THEY HAVE CAUGHT PARVO

VETS SAYS NOTHING IS A SURE THING

ALSO HAD PUPS THAT HAVE HAD NONE AND LIVED TO A GOOD AGE[17]

SO ITS SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS FOR ME

THEY HAVE THERE PUPPY JABS THEN NO MORE

[scotty3968 0]

YEAH I GET THERE PUP JABS AND ONE BOOSTER AND THAT DOES ME..

SCOTTY

[Guest MOLLY]

Never used to bother with boosters, untill i got the titre test done (determines their levels of immunity)

One was fully covered, three covered for Parvo but not distemper, one not covered for anything. So now i booster 3yrly for parvo, told to not worry about distemper as it is almost fully wiped out. I dont booster for lepto as mine will get more than their fair share ratting, plus the booster only covers something like 6-7 strains and there are dozens not covered.

There is no way the insurance company would ever find out you dont booster yearly unless your dog caught one of the viruses, then im afraid it would be out of your own pocket.

MOLL.

[brock 11]

ive started doing mine evey year,why take the chance of your dog getting parvo,and i definately wouldnt want the blame for passing it to a mates dog or dogs.it allso helps stop gastro

[steve66 3,514]

My own vet tells me that boosters aren't necessay: do the puppy jabs and one booster at about 14 months old, then leave it, apart from the Leptospirosis jab which does need to be done every year as the effects do not last. (This is my vet's opinion, and they are one of the rarities in the job: they don't try to sting you, though I must admit they've had a lot of dosh out of me over the last 20 years or so what with accidents etc.

 

Many of us have pet insurance to cover against big vet bills from working injuries. Most pet insurance policies specify that your dog must have up-to-date boosters or the policy will be invalid, this alone is a good enough reason for me to get my dogs boosters done.

 

No innoculations human or animal are 100% guaranteed to produce good levels of immunity and some animal vacinations like some human vaccinations do need boosters. The manufacturers of most of the brands of vaccines recommend periodic boosters to maintain good levels of immunity and can provide the scientific data on which their recommendations are based. Personally I would rather pay a few quid every year or so and feel more confident that my dogs are protected.

 

 

what aload of rubbish :whistle:

 

Just say whay ya think ..B...

[paulus 26]

a study was done and published a while ago in the shooting times. a spaniel trainer had one of his dogs jabbed and then had its blood tested every 12months to see if it reqiured a booster. the results indicated that on average jabs, should be done every 2 yrs.