Vaccination Schedule

About 4 or 5 years ago I lost an excellent quality pit bull pup at 10 months of age…a beautiful red 80 pound pup, lost him to parvovirus…when I bought him as a little pup he had received two 5 in one puppy shots…I asked my wife to pick up a 10 in one shot and she came home with a 9 in one shot…
I opted to give that vaccine to my wife’s Westie, instead thinking I would get a 10 in one for the red pup…long story short I totally forgot and he got Parvo…the veterinarian couldn’t save him on account they didn’t have the IV to hook him up…
The vet did say that Pitbull type dogs are a breed that are vulnerable to Parvovirus…in hindsight if I had given my pit pup the 9 way he would probably be here with me right now…

The feed store owner was and is hard headed…he said save your money and get the 9 way instead of the 10 way vaccine…he says Caronavirus has been eradicated…so I use a different feed store now that works with me on most anything…I use the 10 way no matter what…

My dogs stay consistently worm free on account they are on concrete and I clean up and wash down every day…might miss a day once in a while but not often..

This is what I do…I give the gyp her vaccines as an 8 week old pup and again at 12 weeks…both 10 ways…and that will be it for the life of the gyp, as it is the same protocol for all my dogs…no issues with this schedule…

If it is a litter that needs vaccines I order through Jeffers…

Worming…I keep a close eye on feeding amount, overall appearance and stool firmness on all my dogs…

I give heartworm preventative between 2 an 3 months intervals and give a heavy dose…my thinking on this is simple and based on this logic…from the time a dog gets infected until the heart worm reaches maturity is 6 months…so giving a heavy dose it will kill any larvae for at least 1 to two months maybe longer…so on the next dose the larvae can not be but one month old when they get hit with another big dose…been working for me as far back as I remember…
This dosing is probably helping keeping the intestinal worms under control but on that logic it would be pure speculation…