Can my puppy go in the garden before vaccinations in the UK?
Garfield Trantow
2025-08-02 21:16:37
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If your garden is safe and secure from other dogs or animals, you may be able to allow your puppy out into the garden as soon as you take your bundle of joy home. If you know that foxes or other animals are frequently in your garden, it may be best to wait until after their vaccinations. If you have a clean, secure, and enclosed garden, your vet may say that your pup can go out to play in the garden straight away. It’s important to limit contact with other dogs or animals like foxes – so if your garden gets unwanted visitors, it may be best to wait. Seek your vet’s advice or wait until after their vaccinations have kicked in. Make sure to puppy-proof your garden before allowing them outside. You must also keep a close eye on your playful pup and watch they don’t get too excited and get into mischief. Your precious puppy should not mix with other dogs until at least two weeks after they’ve had their second lot of vaccinations.
Francisca Durgan
2025-08-02 18:24:19
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We advise that your puppy is not allowed out until after the second vaccination. However, you puppy may go out in your own garden for toilet training and can mix with other healthy, fully vaccinated friend’s and family’s dogs within their own gardens. We recommend that a veterinary surgeon carries out a general health check on your new puppy within a couple of days of its arrival. Puppies require a vaccination course of two injections which can start from six weeks of age. We normally give the second vaccination four weeks later. If you are thinking of attending a puppy party to get your dog socialised with other dogs, this can be done after first vaccination, provided that all puppies are vaccinated to this level.