PREVENTATIVE HEALTH CARE FOR YOUR DOG

Beginning Preventative Care for Puppies

To ensure that your puppy receives complete preventative care to protect against disease, we recommend a series of four visits. During these visits, your puppy will receive all vaccinations needed to maintain good health. In addition, one of our veterinarians will thoroughly examine your puppy to identify any potential problems.

Because your puppy’s health and well-being will depend on more than just vaccinations, we will sit down and talk with you about caring for your puppy, training and behavior concerns and answer any questions you might have.

Our hospital recommends starting puppy vaccinations at 6 weeks of age. There is a series of shots given at 6, 9, 12 and 16 weeks.

Maintaining the Health of Your Adult Dog

In order to maintain your adult dog’s health, we recommend the following annual preventative healthcare:

• Comprehensive Physical Exam to detect signs of disease, illness or aging concerns.
• Heartworm testing and prevention.
• Intestinal parasite testing.
• Vaccinations.
• Rabies vaccine
• DHLP/PV/CV (Distemper, Hepatitis, Leptospirosis, Canine Parainfluenza, Parvovirus and Corona virus)
• Bordetella vaccine for kennel cough
• Lyme vaccine
• Rattlesnake vaccine

Maintaining the Health of Your Adult Dog

In order to maintain your senior dogs health, we recommend the following preventative healthcare:

• Exams twice a year
• Geriatric profiles