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May 2016
10:57pm, 26 May 2016
2,743 posts
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Alice the Camel
It's precisely these sort of happenings - the whippets, deers and cyclists - that prevent me from letting Charlie off lead very often. I'm so worried he wouldn't recall if necessary.
He's been to Doggy Day Care today for the first time whilst I had a daytrip to London. The minder sent some photos - he seems to have spent most of the day in the sandpit, paddling pool or any other mud/dirt he could find. I may post a photo or two tomorrow, they made me laugh. Little scruff!
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May 2016
11:50pm, 26 May 2016
5,537 posts
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BaronessBL
Did they offer to bath and groom him afterwards too 
Some of the doggy day cares around this way don't take certain breeds (by which I assume they mean Staffies) so I have never tried it but it would be useful if they did, we have a wedding to go to in a couple of months and I have no idea what we are going to do with Wanda then...
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May 2016
7:33am, 27 May 2016
14,306 posts
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LazyDaisy
Flossie seems very out of sorts today - didn't want her breakfast initially, and didn't come upstairs to say hello to me. She had the second part of her lepto booster yesterday - the first time she's had that jab in two parts, because apparently there's a new strain of leptospirosis which it protects against. I wonder if that's the reason why she's subdued?
As it happens, I was talking to a friend with an 8 year old spaniel. She says she doesn't have her dog vaccinated with some of the annual ones (can't remember which) as her vet said older dogs have usually built up enough immunity not to need it, and she found he was often poorly after the jab.
What do others do? We've always had our dogs vaccinated annually but perhaps we shouldn't or needn't?
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May 2016
7:52am, 27 May 2016
3,138 posts
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Helegant
Apart from the optional extra, kennel cough, I'm not entirely sure what Jet is vaccinated against - my bad.
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May 2016
8:21am, 27 May 2016
8,853 posts
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D2
I would guess its the vaccine LD, I would ring the vet and ask if this is a normal side effect. I've always had mine vaccinated once a year, I would be interested an what others think
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May 2016
8:49am, 27 May 2016
3,254 posts
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Red Ant
Dexter is always vaccinated, plus in order to be allowed onto camp with me at work he needs to be vaccinated. His shots are the usual three: distemper, parovirus and leptospirosis. I also get kennel cough (I really do mean that... last time Dexter wriggled so much I ended up inhaling most of the vaccine with Dexter getting next to nothing :-o).
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May 2016
9:21am, 27 May 2016
3,259 posts
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Red Ant
Sorry I forgot to say - BBL where do you live because if you are in the South West, Wanda could always come to stay with us
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May 2016
6:55pm, 27 May 2016
2,354 posts
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Cyclops
I don't get any of my pets routinely vaccinated. After all I am a pathetic delicate human and I don't need all these vaccinations every year. I said this to the vet once and she agreed that it was mostly marketing from pharmaceutical companies. That said, we never leave our pets in kennels or catteries so they are not mixing with other animals' germs and we don't have to have them done to fulfill the conditions of boarding.
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May 2016
7:01pm, 27 May 2016
3,145 posts
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Helegant
I don't think our vet is that keen on the kennel cough vaccine, but the kennels require it so we comply.
There's also an issue in humans with reduced herd immunity to illnesses like measles and I'd always get my children vaccinated so I apply the same social-responsibility argument to the dog.
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May 2016
8:05pm, 27 May 2016
2,355 posts
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Cyclops
They were all vaccinated when young and had a couple of years of boosters etc.. I just don't get why a horse needs a tetanus vaccination every year when I am deemed immune after three in my lifetime.
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