My dog needs to get his vaccines... but he is older?

Question

My dog had his first round a vaccinations... but no more after that. He is almost a year old now.. Do I start the vaccines over? I want to have him neutered.

Answer 1

No don't start them over. You can just make sure he has rabies, and distemper before he gets neutered, do it about a month before, b/c his immune system will weaken temporarily after the vaccines

Answer 2

My dog had the same thing. The vet just gave him a regular vaccine even though he didn't go through the series. Puppies need an extra boost because diseases like parvo and distemper are so fatal to young dogs. After a dog is a year old, they are a lot more likely to survive. After a dog has had yearly vaccines for about 5 years, they would just seem like they had a bad case of the flu if they contracted parvo or distemper. They just keep building immunity.

Answer 3

No do not start all over. Have the vet run a titer. he likely has immunity from the one he did have. There is no need to re-vaccinate. Do some research on the subject. Also if you DO decide to get a vaccine make it a couple of months prior to the surgery. Vaccines beat the immune system up and putting him under for surgery and getting vaccines at the same time is a bad idea despite that it gets done by ignorant vets on a daily basis. Have a titer ran for Parvo and Distemper to determine whether or not he needs a vaccine. The other diseases are not life threatening but do come with a lot of adverse reactions and side effects. I know there will be some people who will disagree and thumbs down but this is fact backed by science. Not knowing and caring and not doing research on vaccines is easier then learning. Ignorance is bliss. Do some searches for vaccines and adverse reactions to vaccines and be smart. Your dog likely never needs another vaccine the rest of his life.

Answer 4

Your Veterinarian has a plan for your animal that includes required vaccines such as rabies and desirable vaccines such as distemper and vaccinations that will be required by people who board animals such as bordetella. Consult your Vet within your geographic region.If you have a dog on a farm then Leptospirosis is a concern. So it really depends on where you live . Your Vet will give the primary vaccinations and then recommend the required boosters at the appropriate times.

Go ahead and have hm neutered it is not related to vaccination.

Answer 5

If you didn't have a second round of vaccinations a couple of weeks after the initial ones then yes, you will need to start over. It's fine to get this done when the animal is older, and the sooner the better.

Dogs can be neutered from 5 months of age, so do ring your vet and arrange for both to be done - some vets will give the first vaccination when the animal is in for neutering, and then the second when the dog returns in two weeks for stitches out. Some vets don't like to do this because they consider that the vaccination puts extra stress on the immune system while the body is trying to heal from the neuter operation.

Ring your vets to find out their protocol!

Chalice

Answer 6

Kim said:- "Not knowing and caring and not doing research on vaccines is easier then learning. Ignorance is bliss." I would go further and say that ignorance of the side-effects of vaccines is dangerous. There are no excuses now for not researching vaccinosis (side-effects of vaccines) because there is so much info out there on the net. My dogs are *never* vaccinated........I have five ranging from 1 year old to 11years old, and not one of them has been to a vet with any illness whatsoever in all that time. A natural immunity to disease leads to a high immune system which can fight off disease. To anyone who thinks that my dogs are in danger, I will say this. We are at dog shows every weekend (just back from one) and our dogs meet other dogs all the time. They have never succumbed to anything......three days of Kennel Cough for two of them when we brought home a (vaccinated) dog who brought it home with her from the rescue centre, and was really ill with it. (Strange, isn't it, the vaccinated one was seriously ill, the unvaccinated ones either didn't get it or only had it for a few days.) My dogs meet other dogs who have possibly met disease, and my dogs' immune system kicks into gear yet again.....their titre level, I would think, is extremely high. In fact, we are going to have two of our unvaccinated dogs titre tested by a vet we know, for a good price, because the vet is interested herself to see what sort of level of protection the titres will show. So am I. I will be able to honestly say......unvaccinated dogs showed titre levels of . I just hope that they *have* met disease recently, because obviously a titre level will only show if they have met disease recently.......it will be very low if they haven't. So I am hoping my dogs meet some dogs that have been in contact with Parvo, Distemper, etc. recently. Of course, they may have said hello to vaccinated pups, so that will raise their titre levels sky high!! But I digress. Please do think seriously about whether you should vaccinate or not. It really is not dangerous having an unvaccinated dog, because that first shot will be enough to last a lifetime. (Research shows that just one shot gives protection for five, seven years....or life.) And please don't let them vaccinate at the same time as a neuter. The vaccine manufacturer's themselves state on the vaccine bumph that only healthy dogs should be vaccinated. A dog being neutered is going under an anaesthetic, etc.......no way should the two be done at the same time. In fact, no ethical vet would allow it. Unfortunately, there are a lot of vets out there whose practice with vaccines borders on the extremely dangerous. Don't let them mess around with *your* dog!! When my dogs were neutered, I insisted that they write on their notes.....no vaccinations, or owner will sue to the hilt. No Metacam, no Rimadly, no etc., etc. Do some research...........please.

All the best to you and your dog.

Answer 7

Talk to your vet. Tell him what you told us, he'll know what to do.. He is likely not going to to vaccinations on the same day as surgery tho, it's not a good idea to vaccinate when they are going to be going under anesthesia.. So you'll need two visits.. Likely be a good idea to get the vaccinations out of the way first, then make your appointment for neutering.

Answer 8

Um, he should have had more than just one round of vaccines as a puppy. You need to call your vet and make an appointment ASAP- by not having him fully vaccinated, you are leaving him at risk to contract nasty, sometimes deadly, diseases like parvo. But, yes, he is due at one year to have his shots again, even if he had them properly done from the start. And he is old enough to be neutured. Call your vet, set up an appointment, he'll answer your ?s and make sure your dog is up to date on everything.

Answer 9

you will most likely have to have current vaccinations before the surgery...we would not let an unvaccinated dog stay in the kennel at our office.