• CDV,CL, CAV-1,CPIV and CPV vaccinations at 7-9 weeks of age (1st shot)
• CDV,CL, CAV-1,CPIV and CPV vaccinations at 12-13 weeks of age (2nd shots)
• CDV,CL, CAV-1,CPIV and CPV vaccinations at at 16-18 weeks of age to insure they are well protected against these diseases.

We generally administer an intranasal preparation of canine bordatella at 12 and 18 weeks of age. At 12-16 weeks of age we give puppies a killed three-year rated rabies virus vaccination (Meriel Emrab-3).

• All the products on the market for canine leptospirosis are all killed products.
• Those for the rest of these diseases are freeze-dried living virus that have been grown in tissue culture in a way that makes them non-pathogenic i.e. unable to cause disease. Actually, a single injection, at the right time, of all these live products imparts good, long lasting immunity to all of these diseases.

The problem is that puppies absorb antibodies against these diseases from their mothers. Depending on the level of immunity in the mother, this transient parental immunity in the offspring interferes with the puppy’s ability to produce its own long lasting immunity to these diseases. In some puppies, parental immunity is low enough that by 8-12 weeks the vaccination to work. In others, parental immunity interferes with the action of the vaccine for up to 18 weeks. The tests that determine parental immunity levels in puppies are expensive and rarely run. So because we do not know just when to vaccinate we give a series of three or four injections so that at least one of them will work. We only give Coronavirus vaccine to puppies because it is a disease of puppies.