What protects against kennel cough?
Mariela Aufderhar
2025-05-26 08:47:06
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The best way to prevent kennel cough is to vaccinate against it, especially if your dog mixes with lots of other dogs or spends time in kennels. Vaccination is the best way to prevent kennel cough, and is especially necessary if your dog spends lots of time with other dogs or goes into kennels. Kennel cough vaccine lasts 12 months - so should be repeated every year. Like any vaccine, the kennel cough vaccine doesn’t give 100%, guaranteed protection, however, it does significantly reduce the chance that your dog will catch kennel cough and reduces symptoms if they do catch it. Most reputable kennels and doggy day care centres will request that every dog has the kennel cough vaccination two to three weeks before staying with them. Speak to your vet about adding kennel cough into your dog’s vaccine schedule.
Henriette Mosciski
2025-05-26 08:33:34
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Dogs should be immunized with modified-live virus vaccines against distemper, parainfluenza, and CAV-2, which also provides protection against CAV-1.
An initial vaccination should be given at 6–8 weeks and repeated twice at 3- to 4-week intervals until the dog is 14–16 weeks old.
Revaccination should be performed annually.
When the risk of B bronchiseptica infection is significant, a live, avirulent, intranasal vaccine or parenteral products containing subunit bacterial extracts should be used.
A combination of an avirulent B bronchiseptica and a modified-live parainfluenza vaccine is available for intranasal use.
One inoculation is administered to puppies >3 weeks old.
Tommie Turcotte
2025-05-26 07:39:33
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The best way to protect your dog from kennel cough in Warwickshire is to vaccinate them.
The vaccine is a quick and painless procedure.
You can choose between a nasal spray or a liquid given into your dog’s mouth.
This new oral solution is available at our Avonvale Vets practices.
A kennel cough vaccination protects your dog for a whole year.
Often kennels require that all the dogs boarding with them have been vaccinated against kennel cough so it’s worth checking when you book your dog in.
The nasal vaccination should be given at least one week before their stay and the oral vaccine fully protects your dog after three weeks.
Jaycee Kling
2025-05-26 06:42:15
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The best way to prevent Kennel Cough is through vaccination.
The vaccine is a quick and painless procedure for your dog in the form of a nasal spray or your dog may benefit from the new oral solution that we now have available.
The oral method is easier to administer and therefore may reduce stress for your dog and you as the owner.
The Kennel Cough vaccination is given once a year.
If you’re going on holiday, it’s important that your dog is vaccinated against Kennel Cough, otherwise kennels may not accept your dog.
Prepare in advance as the vaccination should be given at least one week before their stay for the nasal method and three weeks for the oral method.
If so, we’d highly recommend a Kennel Cough vaccine or booster.
And, with our new oral vaccine, it’s now even easier to protect your dog.
Annabelle Kreiger
2025-05-26 05:37:28
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A vaccination is available to help protect your dog against these nasty signs. You can minimise the chance of your dog contracting infectious tracheobronchitis by having your dog vaccinated. This vaccination is given by a squirt up the nose, not an injection, which gets the immunity right where it is needed. Although the vaccination does a great job of reducing the risk of infection, it doesn’t completely prevent your dog picking up kennel cough as there are so many different pathogens that can cause it. In most cases however, if your dog does pick up kennel cough despite the vaccination, the signs are much milder than they would have been otherwise, and recovery time is shorter. Having the vaccination is a quick and effective way to give your dog as much protection as you can from infectious tracheobronchitis.
Yessenia Gorczany
2025-05-26 05:20:13
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A kennel cough vaccine is available and is often required for a stay in kennels where the highly-contagious infection can spread easily. Some of the infections that can cause kennel cough are included in the basic vaccinations dogs need to have as a puppy, and subsequent boosters. The most common bacteria present in kennel cough is Bordetella bronchiseptica, which can be given as a separate vaccine – through nasal drops or injection. However, as there are many strains of the infection, it cannot guarantee protection – but at the very least should lessen symptoms. The nasal vaccine for Bordetella bronchiseptica can be given when your dog is as young as three weeks, with it providing protection for about 12 months. Although protection is not guaranteed, many boarding kennels require dogs staying with them to have the Bordetella bronchiseptica vaccine. A dog’s respiratory system is designed to protect against the invasion of infection, but certain situations and environments leave them more vulnerable to illness.
Michele Kuphal
2025-05-26 05:18:31
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No vaccine can offer complete protection, but vaccines are available to protect against the most commonly involved virus and the most commonly involved bacteria. Many dogs may have some protection from kennel cough from parainfluenza virus from the routine vaccines that your vet will review annually. Vaccines against Bordetella are also available and are given as drops up the nose. Many boarding kennels require Bordetella vaccination. If your dog has not received a vaccine against Bordetella in the last 6 months and is well enough to receive one from your own vet before your appointment here, this will reduce the chances of your dog getting kennel cough should they encounter it here. If they are still unlucky enough to become infected, the infection is likely to be less severe if they have been vaccinated.
Broderick Tremblay
2025-05-26 04:57:53
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Vaccination plays a vital role in preventing kennel cough and reducing its spread within the dog population.
The kennel cough vaccine is typically delivered via injection, but occasionally by a nasal spray.
When the vaccine is administered, the dog's immune system recognises these antigens as foreign invaders and mounts a response by producing antibodies specific to these pathogens.
This immune response then helps to provide protection against future exposure to kennel cough, reducing the likelihood and severity of the infection.
The effectiveness of the kennel cough vaccine can vary depending on the dog's age, overall health, vaccination history, but in general the vaccine is considered highly effective at reducing the risk of kennel cough.
If a vaccinated dog contracts kennel cough, they will typically experience milder symptoms and recover more quickly than unvaccinated dogs.
Coverage of the kennel cough vaccine lasts around 12 months, which is why we recommend that your dog receives a yearly kennel cough booster.
The bordetella vaccine is the same as the kennel cough vaccination.
Bordetella bronchiseptica is one of the bacteria commonly associated with kennel cough, so the vaccine is designed to protect against it, along with other pathogens and viruses that can cause the illness.
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