Thanks Pippa! I have your books and they are pretty much my only point of reference now as I think I was reading too much literature! I have a new question but wasn't sure how to start a new thread. Bonkers had her first injections today at 8 weeks. My breeder said she should have the second set at 2 weeks but the vet said 4 weeks due to antibodies being present from the mum. He will do them for me in 2 weeks if I insist but said I was running a risk. What should I do? Pip
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Hi Pip, I have responded to your message but have just realised I didn't answer this question. In this instance I would go with the vets advice of 12 weeks for the 2nd vaccinations with the four week gap between. I'm not 1o0% certain of h[the recommended gap in the UK but 8 and 12 weeks is the norm in France for puppies.
Hi there and welcome I wouldn't take the risk. I suggest you be guided by your vet. If vaccinations are given too early they simply don't work. One of my local vets tells me a colleague changed his policy on this after losing some of his own puppies to parvo - having vaccinated them early.
I don't know if this helps you or not, but Annie had her first vaccination at 8 weeks and then her second two weeks later. I then had to not walk her for two more weeks. She has been fine. I did that with my other dogs.
I had Maisie vaccinated at 8 and 10 weeks and took her our for her first walk at 11 weeks. It does seem to vary a lot from one practice to another.
We didn't pick Lilly up until 11 weeks. The breeder kindly gave her her first vaccine, Unfortunately, it was a different brand to our own vets, so we had to start her course again. So she had vaccs at 12 weeks and 14 weeks and we were advised to wait 2 WEEKS after this before it was safe to go out. definitely be guided by your vet's advice. You can still do socialising around and about, just pop your puppy in a bag, small rucksack, baby carrier or similar.
Definitely go with your vet's advice - things are changing, lots of us have experience of puppies with a last vaccination at 10 weeks (including mine) but the latest guidelines is for a later vaccination. This article explains what changed, why, and how the expert groups came up with the new recommendations. http://www.wsava.org/sites/default/files/2011_VetRecord_EditorialVaccination.pdf The recommendation is: Modification of puppy and kitten vaccination regimes to include a final vaccination at 14 to 16 weeks of age and a 12-month booster to ensure that all animals respond to core vaccination at a time when inhibitory levels of maternally derived antibody are no longer present.
We had a similar experience to Jacqui. We picked Hattie up at 13 weeks so the breeder had taken her for her first jab then we took her for her second, so she was around 15 weeks. I didn't realise the brand made a difference. x
Thanks so much everyone. I guess my own cabin fever is partly to blame! . I'll get her out and about and meeting people as much as possible. Seeing as how beautiful she is it isn't hard to attract attention for that all important socialisation!
I think it is important to remember that many dogs are vaccinated with different schedules and many dogs are completely unvaccinated. The outcome for all those dogs we know or have heard about does not really help us to estimate risk. This is because herd immunity is high in many areas where a large enough proportion of all dogs in that location have been vaccinated effectively. The only way to assess the real efficacy of vaccines and vaccine schedules is with proper clinical trials
