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Loudoun County Dog Cat Help
Contact a Loudoun County Animal Shelter line such
as: 703-777-2912
We assist with stray dogs, stray cats, barking dogs, dangerous dogs, pet adoptions, vaccinations, lost pets, and more.
Should I get my pet vaccinated?
When you have a pet, it becomes your responsibility to take good care of them. You must ensure that they are healthy. However in today’s world you must be very cautious when you feed, bathe, and give medications to them and obviously the vaccinations that your veterinarians recommend to give once in a year.
Avoid needless medications
Being a pet owner, you must pay proper attention to the quantity of medicine and time limit to give it to your dog or cat in Loudoun County. You must avert any kind of medicine as far as possible. Unless you visit a veterinarian who knows all about pet vaccination, you need to speak your mind and state that you will never give anything to your pet, like needless medications that tend to destroy the immune system of your pets, unless and until it is extremely essential. There are lots of natural and holistic answers for most of your pet’s issues, pains, aches and allergies. You can easily make your pet thrive by giving them digestive enzymes and probiotics daily, offering them healthy natural food and pure non-fluoridated water, brushing their teeth on a daily basis, and helping them switch to a breed fitting raw diet. They will indeed turn healthier and will get to lead a life of high quality.
Vaccines
Vaccines can be divided into two groups. The first one is absolutely necessary for dogs and cats. They are known as “core” vaccines and they generally include Rabies, Parvo, Adenovirus and Distemper vaccines for dogs and Panleukopenai, Rabies, Herpes and Calici for the cats. All these vaccines must be given to puppies and kittens during their early life. All the other vaccines are optional and not indispensable and so they fall into the second group of “non-core” vaccines. However the “core” vaccines also require to be examined. For instance, if you have a cat that lives in the indoor and never comes out and makes contact with outdoor cats, then your cat just needs Panleukopenia, wherein the last vaccine should be given during 14-16 weeks. It is highly advised to start vaccinating your pet when they turn 8 weeks old and yet again when they are 12 and 16 weeks old. It is very much important to discover if the vaccination has produced an immune reaction in your pet. You can test it by means of antibody titer tests. These tests must be done 2 to 4 weeks subsequent to the vaccination process.
Re-Vaccination
You must check them subsequent to 3 years to notice if the pet’s immune system is immunized still. If it is so, you don’t have to re-vaccinate them. You need to seek the help of diagnostic labs which are linked to veterinarian schools to carry out the titer tests, since they have various standards and also this is the major test that you need to perform. This test is determined in numbers, and so even if you get low number it shows that the immune system of your pet has responded. Most of the veterinarians will suggest vaccinating them again even if they have a low number. This is not recommended since it becomes needless and also that your pet is also guarded.
We assist with stray dogs, stray cats, barking dogs, dangerous dogs, pet adoptions, vaccinations, lost pets, and more.
Should I get my pet vaccinated?
When you have a pet, it becomes your responsibility to take good care of them. You must ensure that they are healthy. However in today’s world you must be very cautious when you feed, bathe, and give medications to them and obviously the vaccinations that your veterinarians recommend to give once in a year.
Avoid needless medications
Being a pet owner, you must pay proper attention to the quantity of medicine and time limit to give it to your dog or cat in Loudoun County. You must avert any kind of medicine as far as possible. Unless you visit a veterinarian who knows all about pet vaccination, you need to speak your mind and state that you will never give anything to your pet, like needless medications that tend to destroy the immune system of your pets, unless and until it is extremely essential. There are lots of natural and holistic answers for most of your pet’s issues, pains, aches and allergies. You can easily make your pet thrive by giving them digestive enzymes and probiotics daily, offering them healthy natural food and pure non-fluoridated water, brushing their teeth on a daily basis, and helping them switch to a breed fitting raw diet. They will indeed turn healthier and will get to lead a life of high quality.
Vaccines
Vaccines can be divided into two groups. The first one is absolutely necessary for dogs and cats. They are known as “core” vaccines and they generally include Rabies, Parvo, Adenovirus and Distemper vaccines for dogs and Panleukopenai, Rabies, Herpes and Calici for the cats. All these vaccines must be given to puppies and kittens during their early life. All the other vaccines are optional and not indispensable and so they fall into the second group of “non-core” vaccines. However the “core” vaccines also require to be examined. For instance, if you have a cat that lives in the indoor and never comes out and makes contact with outdoor cats, then your cat just needs Panleukopenia, wherein the last vaccine should be given during 14-16 weeks. It is highly advised to start vaccinating your pet when they turn 8 weeks old and yet again when they are 12 and 16 weeks old. It is very much important to discover if the vaccination has produced an immune reaction in your pet. You can test it by means of antibody titer tests. These tests must be done 2 to 4 weeks subsequent to the vaccination process.
Re-Vaccination
You must check them subsequent to 3 years to notice if the pet’s immune system is immunized still. If it is so, you don’t have to re-vaccinate them. You need to seek the help of diagnostic labs which are linked to veterinarian schools to carry out the titer tests, since they have various standards and also this is the major test that you need to perform. This test is determined in numbers, and so even if you get low number it shows that the immune system of your pet has responded. Most of the veterinarians will suggest vaccinating them again even if they have a low number. This is not recommended since it becomes needless and also that your pet is also guarded.