Sentences with phrase «core vaccine boosters»

Therefore, the panel recommends that most cats get core vaccine boosters only once every 3 years.

annually for a wellness check, and to receive any necessary Core Vaccine booster shots.

Adult cats should be seen... MORE annually for a wellness check, and to receive any necessary Core Vaccine booster shots.

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In response to these developments, many localities are requiring less frequent boosters of core vaccines such as rabies.

Feline distemper, herpesvirus and calicivirus are considered core vaccines for cats and require booster shots every three years.

All of this pain and trauma is easily avoided with a canine distemper vaccine and subsequent boosters, part of the canine core vaccine protocol.

Often the veterinarian gives a rabies and booster for the core and non-core vaccines.

A booster for the four main core vaccines is required between 10 and 12 weeks of age.

Puppies and kittens should complete the initial series of core vaccines within their first 6 months, with a booster shot at 1 year of age.

Many veterinarians continue to recommend annual boosters, even though all evidence shows multiple - year immunity from core vaccines.

The core vaccines are injected in a combination shot, with two booster shots given at three - week intervals.

While no vaccine guarantees lifetime immunity (boosters are required), all house cats should be vaccinated as kittens with the «core» vaccines.

Adult animals can be boostered every three years (or even less often), rather than annually, for the important «core» vaccines.

She may never have received her core puppy vaccines if she was in a puppy mill, so she may very well need the booster.

Many pet owners remain unaware of the option to have titre - testing to verify their pet has responded to core MLV vaccination, despite the fact that the WSAVA Guidelines say ``... the principles of «evidence - based veterinary medicine» would dictate that testing for antibody status (for either pups or adult dogs) is a better practice than simply administering a vaccine booster on the basis that this should be «safe and cost less»».

Core vaccinations, spay or neuter procedures, and regular wellness checkups will prepare your puppy or kitten for a lifetime of reduced health risks, and your adult pet also needs regular booster vaccines and wellness exams to stay in good shape.

In August 2013, I forwarded a letter to Professor Ronald Schultz of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association's Vaccination Guidelines Group, challenging the confusing and misleading use of the term «booster» in relation to canine core modified live virus (MLV) vaccines for parvovirus, distemper virus and adenovirus, suggesting that use of the term «booster» is resulting in extensive over-vaccination of already immune dogs.

For those cats that are allowed outside we recommend booster immunizations every year of all the core vaccines.

As noted in my letter, I suggest use of the term «booster» in relation to canine core modified live virus (MLV) vaccines for parvovirus, distemper virus and adenovirus is resulting in extensive unnecessary over-vaccination of already immune dogs.

Most dogs with low - risk lifestyles can be vaccinated every three years with the core vaccines and as needed for any non-core vaccines (most non-core vaccines require annual boosters).

Many core vaccines have been modified to last longer may not require a booster shot.

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Another possible mitigation for West Nile Virus is annual vaccination of a core group of island scrub - jays against the disease, though the expense and availability of an appropriate vaccine and the difficulty of recapturing jays for booster shots make this less attractive as a treatment (Boyce et al. 2011, Wheeler et al. 2011).