Buying a small shaggy four-footed wonder, you take on a great responsibility. It does not matter whether your child is purebred or not, he will participate in exhibitions and win titles or simply delight you and your family. In any case, you need to take care of the organization of proper feeding, care and maintenance for him. It is equally important to think about the prevention of diseases. Many serious and even fatal diseases are easily avoided, only by vaccination. In addition, if you plan to participate in exhibitions or transport a dog by rail, bus or plane, you can not do this without showing a complete list of vaccinations available to your pet. So, what vaccinations do puppies do? Dangerous viral diseases, threatening deaths to pets, are enteritis parvovirus and enterovirus, plague, hepatitis and rabies. Against all of them there are vaccines, both domestic and imported. They can be polyvalent (from several diseases) and monovalent (from one). Do not recommend vaccinating with vaccines from more than seven diseases at once. They do not create the proper immunity.
What vaccinations do puppies of hunting breeds do? The same, and to all the others they add vaccination against leptospirosis - a dangerous disease that is carried by rodents - mice and rats. This vaccine is done at the age of more than 4 months, then it is repeated once a year. What vaccinations do puppies do if you purchased it not in 1-2 months, but much later? In this case, you need to find out from the breeder which vaccinations were administered to the baby, when and how he reacted to them. Write down which vaccines were used for this. It is always necessary to revive the dog with the drug that the first vaccinations have already done. Next, you need to coordinate with the veterinarian inoculation calendar.
When should I vaccinate a puppy? It is known that babies receive the necessary immune protection with mother's milk. Of course, the dog should be vaccinated in accordance with the schedule of vaccinations, so that in her body there were antibodies to diseases. Then she will give them to the puppies at first in utero, then with colostrum. Infants weakened immunity gradually after a few weeks after birth, and they need additional protection. What vaccinations do puppies do first? To vaccinate puppies begin approximately in 6-8 weeks - inoculations against enteritis and a hepatitis. Then carry out their revaccination in 2 weeks. The first inoculation against plague is done at 11 weeks, and the second - after the teeth change in 5-7 months. Then they vaccinate against rabies. Both these vaccinations are repeated every year, trying to do so at the same time.
Obligatory conditions to vaccinate a puppy:
- The kid should be healthy;
- It is necessary to give the puppy helminthic for a week or 10 days before each inoculation;
- The interval from one vaccination to another should not be less than 20 days.
After the vaccination, there should be a certain quarantine regime: you do not have to overwork, do not catch a cold and do not bathe the puppy, do not walk on the street. The duration of such a period is about 18-21 days after anti-plague vaccination and about 10 days after the others. What vaccinations do puppies at home? It is possible and even desirable to carry out vaccination at home, especially for the first. But for this you need to take care that the vaccine is of good quality, the shelf life and adequate storage conditions must be strictly observed.