Do you have your dogs vaccinated? I know some who do and some who dont we had a dog who wasn't and lived till he was 14 and died of old age. I just got a puppy and the vet is making out if i dont spend £94 getting him jabbed he will die as soon as he sees another dog! I dont mind the cost etc and will get him done if its advisable but I have read the the jabs can cause just as bad reactions.

So, who has had them and any adverse reactions and who hasn't had them done and had dogs die or get ill of the illness' the jab would of prevented?

Please get your puppies vaccinated - this is something I feel strongly about.

Our first puppy, a shetland sheepdog called Banjo contracted Parvo Virus after his first vaccination but before the full course, believed to have been transmitted into the house on the feet of a building crew who walked through the house to do some work in the garden.

He died a slow, painful, agonising death at the cost of almost a thousand pounds in medication. He was dead before he was 12 weeks old. I cannot describe how horrific his deteroriation was and how much the vets worked so hard to save him, and how much it scarred all of us, as if we had adhered to a proper quarantine it would not have happened.

We did not take him out, we were getting him vaccinated... we did not know that quarantine was so important and that the disease could be brought in on shoes.

If you have seen a dog suffer and die the way I have, you would always quarantine, and always get the vaccinations done ASAP. Not only get them vaccinated, make sure people take off their shoes before entering the house, do not allow other dogs into the house. When I had my GSD puppy we hosed down our other dog outside before he was allowed back into the house after walks - as a vet advised.

I don't know about other disease, but parvo virus is deadly, and just because some people are lucky that their dogs did not come into contact with it... to me it's just not worth that risk.

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See my vet said that he would be ok going out in the garden around other dogs as long as they were vaccinated etc.

I'd get a new vet that knows what they are talking about...


Parvo FAQs

If your vet doesn't know this information I would seriously question their competence.

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we have a new pup its costing £45 for her jabs and worth every penny we had a dog die of parvo when i was a kid it was horrible thing to watch

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Yes you can let them go around other dogs as long as they are vaccinated the other dogs that is

I have to agree every single one of mine have been vaccinated and im currently going through vaccinations with my 8 wk old she had her 1st done on thurdsday

I dont understand where the £94 comes from as usually the vaccination courses at vets round here is no more than £35

Infact they have an offer on at vets for pets if its still going on i only paid £17.99 for Keonas course of vaccinations what you would pay for a yearly booster

your best checking around for prices as £94 seems an awful lot of money for jabs

And I just paid attention to the £94 bit too.. which is over twice what it should cost for standard vaccinations - or is that for something extra on top?

My vet charges £40 for the vaccinations which includes free microchipping (saving £25 right there) and £25 for the yearly booster.

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Plus local RSPCA's will micro chip for alot less than you would pay at the vets if the chip aint included with the jabs

Sorry I should of elaborated...£94 is for jab, kennel cough vaccination, some Frontline and a worming tablet. Still seems expensive (i did get it done by the way). He has been out in the garden and around my mums playing in her garden with her dog who has been vaccinated too.

edit: its maybe expensive because the vet is one of these TV celebraty ones should of gone elsewhere!

You should really only keep to your own yard as they become immune to the bacterias in your own yard and you tend to know what and who has been in there too

My lil gurl is with other dogs all the time but she lives with them and they are all vaccinated

i dunno that seems about right for all you had done with puppy if he was flea an wormed too and the kennel cough