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All About Fitness
Part of your responsibility as a Virginia dog owner is to protect your dog against life-threatening diseases. Thankfully, science and research have found ways to protect your dog from danger through vaccinations. Why are dog vaccinations necessary? First of all, vaccines are designed to strengthen your dog’s immune system. This means that when disease-causing organisms enter your dog’s body, it will be able to defeat them. In that way, your dog will not catch the disease. These vaccines work by stimulating
Core dog vaccinations are vaccinations that are crucial to all dogs based on the severity of the disease, risk of exposure, and the risk of transmission to other animals. Examples of core vaccinations considered vital by the American Animal Hospital Association’s Canine Task Force include rabies, hepatitis, canine distemper, and canine parvovirus. Lyme vaccine, leptospirosis, canine influenza or dog flu, and Bordetella are considered non-core vaccines. Albeit the non-core vaccines are not included in the li