The necessary procedure - vaccination: puppies at what age are vaccinated?

Vaccination is a compulsory medicalprocedure for all puppies, as well as adult dogs, regardless of their breed. Now the vaccine is made from such diseases as parvovirus enteritis, plague, hepatitis, rabies, leptospirosis, parainfluenza. All these diseases are very dangerous for your four-legged friends.

When is the procedure performed?

Usually the vaccinated animal is not sickthe diseases listed above, after the vaccination was done. The puppies are first vaccinated at two months of age. Before this period, the babies still have the immunity received from the mother. Therefore, as you understand, the vaccine was previously contraindicated to them. The puppy at the age of four to six months is waiting for one not very pleasant process - a change of teeth. In each breed, it proceeds in different ways. While all the teeth do not change, babies can not do such a procedure as vaccination. A puppy needs to be vaccinated (first time) in the period from two to four months. If the procedure has not been carried out before this period, the sick puppy is very hard to tolerate the disease, there are even lethal outcomes. Remember that only healthy animals can be vaccinated!

Necessary advice before and after vaccination of babies

With 1.5 months you need to stop all contacts withother animals in order to avoid infection. Two weeks before the proposed vaccination, it is necessary to conduct deworming. With a veterinarian choose the appropriate drugs and their dosage.

It is important that by the time of vaccination, the puppy wasactive, completely healthy, without worms, oars and, of course, had a good appetite. For three days before the vaccination it is necessary to measure the temperature. If it is in this period will be normal, then you can do the vaccination, otherwise the animal needs to be treated, then again "drive out" the worms, and then have the vaccination.

It is desirable that this procedure is carried out wellspecialist, you should not trust your pet to anyone. It is better to pay extra money, but be sure that your pet is done well. Independently, too, it is undesirable to inoculate. After it, you have to watch the pet. There can be different reactions. Someone suffers a well procedure, and some feel very depressed (loss of appetite, even vomiting may occur). If the symptoms are prolonged for a long time (a day or more), then the pet should be shown to the veterinarian.

Up to a year the puppy will be vaccinated three times. The first vaccination of puppies is done in two months, after two weeks, a revaccination is done, and after the change of teeth (at the age of seven months), the third, the last vaccination against rabies is carried out. Every year it must be repeated.

Puppy after vaccination should not be for twoweeks to contact other dogs, since he now has weakened immunity. Note that after each vaccination you need to withstand a two-week quarantine.

We hope that our article helped you to know when to do the first vaccination for the puppy, how quarantine and other important aspects of vaccination should pass.