annual boosters

Subject: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:06 am

how many of you get boosters done every year, theres been lots of talk about them not been needed except to line the vets pockets ,

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:48 am

i don't have boosters done every year, but i do have yearly health tests,
my vet doesnt even ask me if i want them to have booster jabs any more. :nhy:

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:13 pm

my last dog boss never had yearly boosters done either, but then he never had to stay in kennels when we went away and he never needed to go to training... fred goes for training and and stays in the kennels when we go away so he needs his done annual boosters 729386

the vet did say to me when fred had his first ones done that there was no need for boosters, his dogs never had them :nhy:

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:17 pm

Mines dont have them. :nhy:

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:19 pm

tbh i dont think fred would if he didnt need to go in kennels ....and they werent free on practice plan lol :2431:

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:22 pm

i use to do them every year, then 2 of my girls were very ill after having theirs so never did them again

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:27 pm

really?... what was wrong with them?

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:40 pm

sickness , runs , not eating and lethargic , not good at all :nhy:

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:42 pm

aww thats awful..... thankfully fred has been okay up to now...

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:38 pm

mine all get theirs every year i do know all the hype about ppl saying they dont need them ect

but i dont want my dog getting parvo or anything, i think thats more of a risk to my dogs. plus a lot of the places i take my dog like trials, on jobs theirs always huge groups of dogs.

i have very good friends who are vet nurses and vets and we discuss this all the time.

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:41 pm

the risk is the same for all dogs i think, no matter what they do.... i.e theres a risk if you go training with other dogs.... walking them anywhere is a risk as foxes etc get everywhere....

but then my dog boss lived to the age of 14 with very little health problems until the end... and my aunt who lives on a farm never gets boosters done for any of her dogs...

but then if i was to now stop getting freds boosters... and he was to contract parvo.. i would feel guilty...

each to their own i think annual boosters 729386

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:51 pm

Marley has his boosters and Kala will too, I just dont want to take the risks.
but as you know Im a scaredy cat anyway!! :2431:

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:52 pm

:2431: we know jude!!.. i dont think i would stop freds now.... it would be just our luck that he got parvo annual boosters 482195

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:55 pm

no i know shelley if they are gonna get it they will parvo lies dormant for five yrs or summet dont it

but thats why i also get KC ones due to where we go thats what i ment

as paddy got Kennel Cough out on a walk were lots of dogs regulary walk and was very ill and i wouldnt want any of my dogs getting that again not nice

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:58 pm

ooh i didnt know it lies dormant for 5 years :nhy: ....

i wish i had fred vaccinated for kennel cough too now ... when he went to kennels last year he came back a bit rough annual boosters 729386

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:03 pm

Marley has Kennel cough vaccine, Im pleased as there is a lot of it about here at the moment. Kala will be getting KC vac too after her second Jab

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:05 pm

i could kick myself now jude for not getting fred vaccinated against it

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:11 pm

you could still get him done Shelley. I thought KC was only given if they were going into kennels until Neil told me otherwise. annual boosters 729386

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:12 pm

i might see if i can get him in before thursday... going to be a struggle lol.. he goes for training on thursday morning

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:16 pm

awww bless him yea paddy was very ill discahrge from his nose coughing up all sorts lol took him a while to recover

yea jude i knew this but never thought it would happen to one of mine but i get them done now after poor pads being ill :love:

Subject: Re: annual boosters Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:10 pm

he will need the kennel cough jab to stay at mascani's tho wont he shell ?

Subject: Re: annual boosters Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:35 am

They didn't need it for Bryn when he went to Mascani :nhy:

I have always had mine done every year but not this year, I am leaving it lapse for this year, I have been told that the vaccine is still active, in some cases for 3 years, and they do not need to be done annually, now that my brother-in-law has retired from vetenary practice he admits it is not needed as often as we do it

Subject: Re: annual boosters Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:40 am

liverbird@home wrote:: he will need the kennel cough jab to stay at mascani's tho wont he shell ?

im not sure karen, hes never had it done and hes stayed there a few times

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i bloomin hope not anyway lol....

Subject: Re: annual boosters Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:49 am

oh right arent you worried he might get it tho Shelley, i thought the kennel owner would insist on it with all the dogs that stay at kennels.

Subject: Re: annual boosters Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:56 am

i honestly never gave it a thought karen...and now im woried... i might try the vets again and see if they can squeeze him in today or tomorrow

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