Vaccinating puppies

[DogCatMom]

Oh, squee! Such cuteness! Is the red dog "T-Dog"? Doesn't look like Red = Mom... very cuuuute puppies! They should find homes w/o much problem, esp. with photos like these.

 

[Cottie]

The older dog pictured is mom. She's mostly Italian Greyhound (...maybe...we think...).

T-dog is a lot bigger and less careful with his affections.

 

[DogCatMom]

Wow! So Red *is* Mom (= Rat Dog). What does Daddy look like? 'Cause those don't look like little red puppies, not so far at least. Is he part Rottie maybe?

 

[Cottie]

Mom as a puppy (can't get a good current picture of her, she's a perpetual motion device)

Dad as a puppy (the one with his head under the gate). Beagle/Aussie Shep

 

[Dood]

Is that one pup howling his pose brings back fond memories.

I fostered raised a litter of beagle crosses from 2 days to 10 weeks and they were 'talkers' from day one ! It was cute to have them all yodeling but I realized their future owners might not enjoy 'hound song' as much as me so discouraged it.

 

[Tagcon]

I follow the minimum vaccination protocol as well. There have been numerous studies by Cornell Vet School, first, the reason why they give so many shots is they don't really know when the mothers immunity goes away, some time near 14 weeks, so just in case they give a series of shots. My adults were vaccinated, so it's possible for pups to get antibodies shed in the saliva from them. As long as they pups don't go anywhere, they are fine. One of my puppy buyers ignored that and although the pup was vaccinated before he left, he still came down with something very parvo like. What a mess. I had no problem with the rest of the litter. I believe I gave a 7 way shot. I don't give rabies before 6 mos. When I first started showing I gave Bordetella, I don't any more. At the moment, Boomer has never had any shots, but he rarely leaves the house, and Phoenix has had one.
Second, the vaccinations last longer than we think. We don't vaccinate our kids every year, why dogs. The effects last at least 7 years.

My dogs are vaccinated after they leave my property, at 12 weeks.

You are right about not knowing when the immunity wears off but I know of people who has lost puppys to parvo before 14 weeks, I take my dogs to the field on a regular basis and they can bring parvo back to the kennel or yard either on their feet or something they rolled in or whatever along with wild animals coming and going in your yard, parvo is nasty stuff I try to guard against it any way possible......JMO

Terry

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

H'OMG PUPPIES!!!!!!!! They are SO CUTE!!!!