4470 El Camino Real

Los Altos, California 94022

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Puppy Pointers

Vaccinations

Puppies need to be vaccinated two or three times between the ages of eight weeks to sixteen weeks for DAPP (distemper, adenovirus, parainfluenza virus, and parvovirus). The reason puppies require multiple vaccinations is because this is the period of time their maternal immunity (antibodies from their mother's milk) wears off and their own immune systems develop. At sixteen weeks they receive one rabies vaccine. Both the DAPP and the rabies vaccine are boostered one year later and then every three years.

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