Is a two week booster shot needed for an adult dog?
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When I got my dog from the shelter, I took him to the vet the next day. He had been given his rabies shot at the shelter (it’s required) but had not received his other shots.
The vet gave him another rabies shot (despite the paperwork I brought in showing he had it all ready) and all the other required ones, including the one against kennel cough. He said my dog needed to come back in in another two weeks to get a booster shot for the one against kennel cough, or else it wouldn’t properly work.
My dog is two years old; he is not a puppy. I’ve had dogs my entire life and never had one that needed to go back for a booster shot so soon after the first. I know puppies have a much closer schedule, but he’s a full grown adult.
Does the vaccination against kennel cough require a two week booster? Or does any adult shot, for that matter (perhaps I got the shots confused)? And was it safe for him to get two rabies shots in three days?
Thanks.
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Answer by LoLo
I have no idea why they gave him another rabies unless it was due?
But usually bordetella needs a booster every 6 months.
Which I do not vaccinate my dogs for bordetella because they have been exposed to it so many times and came down with it while vaccinated I see no need.
But anyways.
If an adult dog has no known vaccination history then the DHP or DHLPP whatever your vet calls it needs to be boostered at least once in 2-3 weeks. Then after that a yearly vaccination schedule is just fine.
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The extra rabies shouldn’t hurt him. As far as the booster, some vets ask to do a booster distemper vaccine if the dog’s shot history is unknown. At the shelter I work at, we give all stray adults a distemper upon intake then if they are still there in 3 weeks, they get another. Getting a booster is totally up to you, however, I would probably recommend it. No bordatella vaccine that I have heard of requires a two week booster, but it might. Hope I helped, Good luck!
You’re right to be worried, vets get money for every shot they give and there is a trend for over vaccination. Rabies jabs are very dangerous, and a few days seems very close. Vaccinations affect the immune system and that’s how dogs (like humans) develop allergies. In this case the vet may hae been treating the dog as if it’d never had any jabs. Regardless you can’t vaccinate against kennel cough anymore than you can against the flu.
Kennel cough is a series of many diseases that all come under the same umbrella, just like the flu, but just because you’re vaccinated against type 1, you may catch type 23, it’s a lottery.
Once a dog has been vaccinated there is no evidence that they need to have boosters every year, jabs last at least 7 years, many vets believe a lifetime.
If I was you, I’d change my vet.
I’ve attached some links for you to read up on the subject so that you can make your own informed decision. Good luck with the new dog!