August is Immunization Awareness Month- are your pets fully vaccinated?

Vaccines are products that have been developed to trigger your pet’s immune system in order to prepare them to fight off future exposure to disease.  Vaccines lessen or prevent the severity of infection.  Many diseases that we immunize against are highly contagious and even deadly.  Oftentimes even with treatment, unvaccinated pets that contract these diseases die.  Some of these diseases are even zoonotic, or transmissible to people.

Pets can be exposed to disease at the grooming salon, boarding kennel, through your window screens, even by a stowaway animal in the house such as a bat, mouse, or raccoon.  Even the most well behaved animal can slip out the door or be involved in a natural disaster during which their normal risk status can change.  Give us a call and we can talk about which vaccines are recommended for your individual pet.