*Pauline*
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I took Dylan for his 1st check up at the vets today (the vet was reallly yummy!). Anyway, everyone love him, (that's Dylan, not the vet, well maybe both of them ) and he listened to his heart and said he's fine.
Turned out Dylan hasn't had the Bordetella vaccine. The vet explained it was like whooping cough. The virus is from the same family as the human form. He said at this time of year there is a lot of movement of dogs as more people buy puppies and he said it's a time dogs do catch this. He said it's an air born virus and can travel on a good wind maybe even a mile! :shock:
Anyway, my question is, why didn't the breeder give him this vaccine, is there a reason Cavaliers don't have it? Dylan has a runny nose at the moment so the vet said to wait a week for the vaccine, let him fight off his runny nose.
He loved the other huge dogs though. He was calm and shy and polite but not nervous. He just gave them a sniff. A very proud Mum
I took Dylan in to my daughters work after the vets, she's a hair dresser. He had cuddles from everyone. He really didn't like the traffic though so I carried him on the main road, well it is his first time near busy traffic. I don't like that he's nervous about cars but I kept calm and that's a good thing. Is it bad to carry him though?
Thanks, Pauline :flwr:
Turned out Dylan hasn't had the Bordetella vaccine. The vet explained it was like whooping cough. The virus is from the same family as the human form. He said at this time of year there is a lot of movement of dogs as more people buy puppies and he said it's a time dogs do catch this. He said it's an air born virus and can travel on a good wind maybe even a mile! :shock:
Anyway, my question is, why didn't the breeder give him this vaccine, is there a reason Cavaliers don't have it? Dylan has a runny nose at the moment so the vet said to wait a week for the vaccine, let him fight off his runny nose.
He loved the other huge dogs though. He was calm and shy and polite but not nervous. He just gave them a sniff. A very proud Mum
I took Dylan in to my daughters work after the vets, she's a hair dresser. He had cuddles from everyone. He really didn't like the traffic though so I carried him on the main road, well it is his first time near busy traffic. I don't like that he's nervous about cars but I kept calm and that's a good thing. Is it bad to carry him though?
Thanks, Pauline :flwr: