How To Keep Your Dog Healthy: Vaccinating Your Cute Pit Bull Terrier
By camily, 4th Feb 2012 | Follow this author
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With advanced technology there are many vaccines available which are geared to preventing your Pit Bull Terrier from infections. These vaccines are not only to keep your dog healthy but to ensure they boost your Pit Bulls immunity thus becoming less prone to the very many diseases.
How To Keep Your Dog Healthy: Vaccinating Your Cute Pit Bull Terrier
With advanced technology there are many vaccines available which are geared to preventing your Pit Bull Terrier from infections. These vaccines are not only to keep your dog healthy but to ensure they boost your Pit Bulls immunity thus becoming less prone to the very many diseases. For pet lovers, your dog’s health is of high importance and should be safeguarded at all times. It is recommended that that your Pit Bull should start being vaccinated at the age of eight weeks and repeated after every four weeks up until the age of eighteen weeks.
Vaccination against rabies is a legal requirement to all dog owners to prevent transmission of rabies to humans which has no cure once one is infected. This anti-rabies vaccine should be given to Pit Bulls at around twelve weeks and a booster shot at the age of one year and two years afterwards.
Distemper combination vaccine which starts after six weeks is highly recommended by most veterinaries starting from six weeks to eighteen weeks. This is a multi purpose since one vaccine can prevent five different diseases which include distemper, parvo, and adenovirus, influenza and corona virus. Among these, distemper is very contagious as it attacks the nervous and respiratory systems. Its symptoms include and not limited to coughing, fever, seizures, diarrhea and even death. For puppies, parvo and corona virus are very severe though they are known to affect older dogs. These diseases are known to occur concurrently and also cause dry hacking cough leading to pneumonia.
Most dog owners opt to vaccinate their Pit Bulls against Lyme disease with the first dose being administered at the age of twelve weeks and the second dose three weeks later then a yearly boost there after. Lyme disease affects the brain, joints, kidneys and the heart if left untreated.
It is advisable to keep away your pit Bull puppy from getting into contact with other mature dogs until the first vaccine is administered; this separation prevents the puppy from infections. Once in a while, side effects from the vaccine might occur but it is better than letting your Pit Bull from being exposed to these deadly diseases.
The annual boosters are very important once they are given on a timely basis as this ensures continuous lifetime protection. There are also three year boosters available until your dog becomes an adult though contacting your vet is very important.
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