Bordatella vaccine for my dog

[horseshowmom]

I just read that it should be yearly UNLESS the dog is being boarded and then it should be every 6 months

When I board mine or leave him at doggy day care (when he travels with me on business, he stays at PetSmart's Doggy Day Care during the day and loves it!), he has to have it every 6 months, or they won't take him.

 

[christiane]

1) Bordetella --The current guideline for most dogs is to vaccinate annually. However, for dogs entering "at-risk" situations (such as boarding) they should be vaccinated 1 week before the risk if it has been more than 6 months since the vaccination. This vaccine is not 100% effective and your dog may still become infected with "kennel cough" if they are exposed. It generally decreases the severity of the symptoms or lessens their duration.

2) Rabies --Some jurisdictions do not allow re-vaccination at 3 year intervals even if the 3-year vaccine is administered. These are usually places with a high risk of rabies. So check with your local health unit to see if the 3-year vaccine & schedule are acceptable. If so, then do not re-vaccinate annually.

 

[walden]

Our kennel requires the Bordetalla intranasal every 6 months and so does the dog training facility we use. Kennel cough is highly contagious.

My vet recommends the vaccine for dogs who socialize frequently with other dogs, and I'd rather be safe. I think the shot is more likely to have side effects than the intranasal.

On the rabies -- for goodness sake! The 3 year shot should be ample coverage. I would do a booster if (and only if) my dogs were to tangle with any wild-life, but certainly not every year. I'd try another vet.

 

[IDoDis]

We take our dogs to a shot clinic to get the Bordatella about a week or two before we board them. It only costs $10 or $12 per dog. The man who owns the kennel where we take the dogs requires vaccine paperwork. When he sees the recent bordatella vaccine, he always comments and says, "Excellent." Dogs really need that vaccine very close to the time they are boarded. The closer the vaccine, the better protected they are.

 

[Belle0101]

As to the rabies - the last I checked, my state requires the rabies vaccine to be given on a yearly basis. However, all the local vets, I know because I've called around, use a 3 yr. vaccine. So when I board the kennels go by what the law is. I can't fault them and I can't fault the vet either. I think it's one of those stupid laws you always read about - can't walk your through the courthouse and the like.

I'm another that is cautious with vaccines. I had a whippett who at the age of 8 had a terrible reaction to her vaccines. That was the last time I had Miranda vaccinated. She lived to be 2 weeks shy of her 17the birthday.

***Money saving tip - except for the rabies vaccine, you can vaccinate your dog yourself. I've vaccinated all our dogs myself for a couple years now.

 

[walden]

As to the rabies - the last I checked, my state requires the rabies vaccine to be given on a yearly basis. However, all the local vets, I know because I've called around, use a 3 yr. vaccine. So when I board the kennels go by what the law is. I can't fault them and I can't fault the vet either. I think it's one of those stupid laws you always read about - can't walk your through the courthouse and the like.

I'm another that is cautious with vaccines. I had a whippett who at the age of 8 had a terrible reaction to her vaccines. That was the last time I had Miranda vaccinated. She lived to be 2 weeks shy of her 17the birthday.

***Money saving tip - except for the rabies vaccine, you can vaccinate your dog yourself. I've vaccinated all our dogs myself for a couple years now.

Are you in Alabama by any chance? Apparently that is the last state to require annual rabies vaccinations for dogs. Every other state now accepts the 3 year. http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories/index.ssf?/base/living/123805534272750.xml&coll=2

Note: the 3 year and one year rabies vaccines are actually identical dosages! Talk about unnecessary vaccinations.

FYI, if you have dogs that have had bad reactions to vaccinations in the past, you can usually get a written exemption from your vet. You can also do titers to check for exposure to various, but they can be quite expensive too.

 

[pixiewings71]

Even though I don't plan on going on vacation until May I went ahead and got Gacie Bell's over with. You never know when an emergency will come up and you will need to board them.

TC

Our kennel of choice will board animals in emergency situations without boardatella. We had a house fire, we had to board the cats and the dog for just over a week, we hadn't had to board Blue for quite some time so he hadn't had the Boardatella, we called the kennel and let them know what had happened and with our emergency situation they waived the vaccine requirement. Of course we are extremely close to our kennel personnel, we only board the dogs there (and cats, but they don't require any vaccines for cats), we adopted the dog in question from them, we train with them, we can call and say "Blue & Autumn need to be boarded" and they know exactly who we are. lol Blue now lives with DD22 but when we need to board Autumn we simply get her boardatella about a week before we go, the kennel is fine with that, we don't do it every 6 months as we feel it's not needed for her.

As to the rabies - the last I checked, my state requires the rabies vaccine to be given on a yearly basis. However, all the local vets, I know because I've called around, use a 3 yr. vaccine. So when I board the kennels go by what the law is. I can't fault them and I can't fault the vet either. I think it's one of those stupid laws you always read about - can't walk your through the courthouse and the like.

I'm another that is cautious with vaccines. I had a whippett who at the age of 8 had a terrible reaction to her vaccines. That was the last time I had Miranda vaccinated. She lived to be 2 weeks shy of her 17the birthday.

***Money saving tip - except for the rabies vaccine, you can vaccinate your dog yourself. I've vaccinated all our dogs myself for a couple years now.

Autumn is allergic to something, I can't remember what it is but it's in her records. She's not allowed to have that certain shot at all. It's not required for boarding so it's not an issue. My BFF is a vet tech so she can do our vaccines for us, we do that with the cats but not the dog, because the kennel requires vet administered doses and we have to have a record from the vet showing when she was last vaccinated.

Our vet offers 2 choices with the boardatella vaccine, the yearly shot or the intranasal 6 month dose. We did the shot last time and the kennel tried to tell us it wasn't good when we last boarded the dogs. We had to call the vet and have the staff explain the difference to the person checking us in at the kennel, she'd never heard of a shot before. The kennel updated their records but we will probably go back to the intranasal because we won't be boarding much in the near future.

 

[4greatboys]

That was my thought. It seems they are trying to find all kinds of reasons to charge more. The last time I got his Sentinal I said I wanted a prescription because I was going to get it at petmeds.com and they quickly said they would match the price on petmeds. So they have been charging more all along.

That's a common business practice.

 

[starwood]

Where are you in North Jersey? If you're in Bergen, I advise you to take your dog to either River Edge or Dumont Animal Hospital, simply because neither of these vets will rip you off.

There are some real thieves in veterinary practice around here. Avoid the Oradell Animal Hospital (which is actually in Paramus) like the plague! They'll have you taking a second mortgage out on your house.

And if this is your area, for boarding, I recommend the Cedar Lane Pet Lodge in River Vale. The family who owns this kennel lives on-site and it's next door to a cemetery. The dogs can howl their heads off to each other without bothering anyone.

We're in Bergenfield but have been going to Rutherford Animal Hospital for years because DH went to school with the vet who started it. Now we rarely get to see him and I think the others in the practice are told to make as much as possible. We only use Oradell in an Emergency.

We use Pine Brook Kennels in Norwood. I'm going to ask her when I drop him off next month what they require.

 

[Southerngirl71]

My dog has been in ICU since Christmas Eve with an auto immune diesease (ITP). He was fine when we left the house and when we returned four hours later we could tell something was seriously wrong. Took him to an emergency vet and had to transport him to a Critical Care Specialist Vet. It has been touch and go but it seems like he will make it. Platlet level went down to 10,000 and should be closer to 300,000. He was vaccinated last month for both parvo and distemper (and although I am getting conflicting reports on this ) his primary vet seems to think this may have been the cause. He is never boarded and never comes in contact with any other dogs so she said she will only vaccinate him from now on for rabies.

 

[luvwinnie]

If you want an alternative to Oradell in an emergency, there is a great hospital in Fairfield. Oradell has too many interns in my opinion.

 

[christiane]

My dog has been in ICU since Christmas Eve with an auto immune diesease (ITP). He was fine when we left the house and when we returned four hours later we could tell something was seriously wrong. Took him to an emergency vet and had to transport him to a Critical Care Specialist Vet. It has been touch and go but it seems like he will make it. Platlet level went down to 10,000 and should be closer to 300,000. He was vaccinated last month for both parvo and distemper (and although I am getting conflicting reports on this ) his primary vet seems to think this may have been the cause. He is never boarded and never comes in contact with any other dogs so she said she will only vaccinate him from now on for rabies.

I'm very sorry to read that your dog is unwell. I'm glad to hear that he is now improving. ITP is a very serious condition. It has many causes and vaccines have been implicated.

Your veterinarian should report it to the vaccine manufacturer(s) as a possible adverse reaction. I am aware of situations where the manufacturer has paid for cost of some or all of the care for dogs who have been diagnosed with ITP closely after vaccination. I just want to be clear that it is not the fault of the veterinarian or the vaccine. Just an individual reaction in an individual dog.

I hope he will be home soon...

 

[nancycg56]

We board our dogs fairly often and we go to the dog park every day so they get the bordetella every 6 months. One of our dogs had kennel cough once and passed it on to the other ~ not something I want to repeat.

 

[Southerngirl71]

I'm very sorry to read that your dog is unwell. I'm glad to hear that he is now improving. ITP is a very serious condition. It has many causes and vaccines have been implicated.

Your veterinarian should report it to the vaccine manufacturer(s) as a possible adverse reaction. I am aware of situations where the manufacturer has paid for cost of some or all of the care for dogs who have been diagnosed with ITP closely after vaccination. I just want to be clear that it is not the fault of the veterinarian or the vaccine. Just an individual reaction in an individual dog.

I hope he will be home soon...

Thank you soo much. I had not heard of it until now. We came home Christmas Eve and he was not acting normal. When he refused a treat I knew something was wrong. Turned out he was blind. Had the blindness not happened we may not have even known anything was wrong. We are very lucky in that the emergency vet told us she could try to treat him with steriods but she could not administer a blood transfussion. Luckily a critical care vet hospital recently opened in our area. You have to be referred by another vet. They have been absolutely wonderful with him and understand my 10 calls a day to check on his status. He was not responding to the steriods and the internal specialist said we could try a very agressive cancer drug. We started that 3 days ago and it looks like he may be able to come home. He is still anemic but he is no longer bleeding internally and he has regained all of his vision. It has been so hard. My husband and I don't have any childern so I guess maybe I spoil him extra. He sleeps with us and is constantly in one of our laps when we are home.
The internal specialist seems to think since the vaccinations were in November that they were not the cause but his regular vet seems to think they may be and she knows and loves him almost as much as we do. I know she would never give him anything just to raise our bill. She kept apologizing for vaccinating him and we reassured her it is not her fault. It is just one of those things that happened but I do think that I will not vaccinate him again unless she strongly suggest it.
Patiently waiting for the vet to call to see if he can come home today or tomorrow.....