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Dog Vaccinations - where to now?

Core Vaccinations:

A core vaccine would be a vaccine against a disease which may be, highly contagious, pose a high risk of exposure, have serious consequences to infection (eg fatal) or a zoonosis. (Affects humans) Core vaccines would therefore be given at regular appropriate intervals to provide adequate protection from infection. This leads to a risk assessment being necessary before you even begin to plan what vaccines would be most appropriate for the individual animal. For example:

1. Will your dog be exposed to the disease? (The average pet in the UK is unlikely to be exposed to rabies, so despite the fatal consequences and potential for human infection this is not considered a core vaccine in the UK. For anyone who considers themselves at all anti vaccination, please consider what you would do if rabies began to spread through the UK)
2. What would the consequence of an infection be? (In a breeding or kenneling environment, an outbreak of parvo virus in a community of unvaccinated animals would be disastrous)
3. Can it affect humans? (Leptospirosis is prevalent in rodents, can be carried by dogs, and is something we definitely do not want to get ourselves – the vaccine provides a degree of protection from this)

We consider the core vaccinations for dogs in our area to be:

1. Parvo virus
2. Infectious canine hepatitis (Adenovirus)
3. Distemper
4. Parainfluenza
5. Leptospira

Non core vaccines would be ones that we would recommend for individual animals that may be at risk – for example kennel cough, rabies and corona virus. This does not mean that we consider them to be unimportant, merely that we don’t believe that all dogs in our area should be given these vaccines regularly at this time.

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