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| ThankYou Dr Cain for our healthy start! |
Today the NYC kids went for their vet appointment with Dr Cain at Bishop Ranch Veterinary Center- examination, first vaccinations, microchiping, 2nd worming, and a DNA CHIC Repository Blood draw. Between the car drive of an hour there and back, along with the appointment, and stop with FedEx to ship the blood samples, the kids were crated for 4 hours. They did great! Outside of a short 5 minutes stint of nausea and vomiting by Rockefeller on our way there, everyone traveled extremely well.
Puppies will need their next vaccinations in 3-4 weeks, along with a final worming at that time. By 16 weeks of age, puppies will need to begin a heart worm medication. If a puppy will be living in an area with a higher incident of heart worm, the medication is often began closer to 3 months of age. Heart worm medication will need to be given on a monthly basis for each puppy's lifetime.
Dr Cain recommends no public places for each puppy until they have completed their vaccination schedule which is about 16 weeks of age. Some puppies may need one more Parvo booster between 16-18 weeks of age if they live in an area with a high incidence of the disease. Dr Cain does recommend a puppy kindergarten or puppy training class because they do need the socialization within a controlled environment prior to completion of the vaccination schedule. At each puppy's new home, the recommendation is to have as many visitors as possible of every age. Have each visitor remove their shoes prior to entering the house and wash their hands prior to handling a puppy. Parvo is the greatest concern of passing on to the puppy accidentally. Parvo lives in the environment and could be easily brought into their environment.
During a puppy's initial vaccination schedule, the hope is the mother's antibodies will begin to drop off so the vaccine can begin it's job at creating the puppy's own immunity toward the potential disease. Unfortunately it is an unknown when mother's antibodies will stop providing protection. Theoretically there could be a small window when the puppy has no protection toward diseases between vaccinations. Maternal antibodies toward Parvo are the last to decrease. This is why it is so important to limit the puppy's public places until the vaccinations have been completed.
The DNA CHIC Repository Blood draw - The Orthopedic Foundation for Animals will store DNA from a blood sample taken from each puppy. The Dalmatian Club of America is paying for the submission of this sample to OFA along with shipping costs. Dr Cain and her staff graciously donated their time for the blood draw on these puppies. The hope is sometime in the future, a researcher will do a study on a canine disease process and they will have available DNA for the research. Such research may help to prevent a canine disease or medical condition in the future, or to help better understand how we may control any potential disease process. As a breeder, our hope is your puppy never has any health related issues. But we know that perfect world very seldom exists. As a forever home for one of these puppies, our hope is you will keep their puppy health information updated on the OFA site or let us know if their health changes so we can update OFA. One of our older boys already had his DNA pulled for a study on uric acid stone formation. The study reviewed the DNA on littermates-one being a male dalmatian non stone former and the other being a male dalmatian stone former. We understand a researcher from Australia is getting ready to do a research project on deafness in dalmatians and will be pulling DNA for this study. This is one small way how your puppy will help future canines.
Here are some pictures of the group at Dr Cain's office on Monday May 21st
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| Manhattan 9#7oz |
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| Hudson 10#6 oz |
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| Rockefeller 10#12oz |
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| Staten 10#8oz |
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| Bronx 10#6oz |
They have grown so much! They are all beautiful...Ruth and Mikey did a great job!
ReplyDelete~Morgan