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How much longer should I wait?

Last post 10-08-2007 8:39 PM by Janet808. 7 replies.
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  • 10-07-2007 3:46 PM

    • jenn52
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    How much longer should I wait?

    Rory (beagle, 17 weeks) got her last distemper/parvo shot last Wednesday (10/3). She gets rabies on the 17th. How much longer should I wait to take for a real walk or the to park (neighborhood park,not dog park)? My last vet said two weeks after the last parvo shot, my new vet said 1 week after. I'm really getting anxious and I think she is too. It's been so beautiful out, I'd love to let her romp around the park (leashed). Either way, yes we'd keep her out of bushes and stuff to prevent any contact with any small wild animals since she hasn't had rabies yet. How long does everyone here wait?
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  • 10-07-2007 4:32 PM In reply to jenn52

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    Re: How much longer should I wait?

     

    Oh geez, get her out NOW! You've got time tomake up on socialization. Disease IS a risk, but lack of socialization is, IMO, more of one!
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  • 10-07-2007 4:36 PM In reply to jenn52

    Re: How much longer should I wait?

    I left the vet after the last shot and went directly to the dog park. It's unlikely she's going to have contact with a rabid animal. I agree with Pwca. Take her to the park! And I'm one of the overly-cautious ones! Wink

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  • 10-07-2007 4:46 PM In reply to jenn52

    Re: How much longer should I wait?

    Yikes!  Your best opportunity for socialisation has gone.  You have time to make up!

    A fairly small puppy can be taken out and about and carried so they can come into contact with lots of sights, sounds, smells, new people etc. while minimising the risk of infection.  (Is that what you have been doing?)  If you are worried about the risk of disease are there any mature, healthy, temperamentally sound dogs your pup could meet and play with?  Shes just got to have as many new, positive experiences as you can manage without overwhelming her so that she accepts new stuff when she is older without getting scared or excited, which would cause/exacerbate unwanted behaviour.  More dogs die from being fear-aggressive than from disease!  Honestly, I would start walking her now, with that in mind.

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  • 10-07-2007 5:19 PM In reply to Chuffy

    Re: How much longer should I wait?

    To answer your quesiton truthfully, it takes between two and three weeks for immunity to form.

    In ALL my years of having dogs, training dogs and dealing with pups and adult dogs, I have never seen validity to this huge panic to <<<<<SOCIALIZE>>>>> before some imaginary window snaps shut. 

    It won't.  Simply be upbeat, fun and confident -- "Oh, let's go see THIS!" ... and if you think it's fun, approach it as fun, and continually expose this pup to many, many, many new things it's whole life long it won't fear them.

    I've taken fearful fully grown dogs and have socialized them with exactly that way with never a problem.  If you are comfortable, confident and not panicked the dog won't be either.  Life is an adventure -- LIVE IT UP!!

    But do it safely -- my dogs travel all over the place -- we take them everywhere and they do pet therapy in many many different places.  but I frankly find dog parks too dangerous -- you might think my dogs were horribly treated but we just plain don't go.  Around here they are too much the place of fights and disease. 

    It all depends on what you're personally comfortable with.


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  • 10-07-2007 5:21 PM In reply to Chuffy

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    Re: How much longer should I wait?

    Okay, she has been taken out, just not on the ground. We "walk" her by carrying her every night around our apartment complex. Have met lots of people on our walks, everyone, kids, adults all have to pet her. She plays with my grandmas dog and my aunts dog, she even met a couple other dogs at my aunts house that live on her street. She has gone to my nephews soccer games and to the pet store, just in our arms. We take her in the car if we're not getting out (gas/drive thru). We've had friends over. I've tried to get her "out" as much as I can without putting her on the ground. So it's not like she hasn't had any socialization. Thanks though, maybe we'll go to the park this afternoon!
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  • 10-07-2007 5:27 PM In reply to jenn52

    Re: How much longer should I wait?

    You've done a great job. And I agree with Callie. My dogs were 16 weeks before they met strange dogs and walked in parks and stuff and they did just fine. But I did like you. I introduced Jaia to EVERYTHING I could! The Walmart parking lot was a big one. Lots of noises, smells, sights and different people.

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  • 10-08-2007 8:39 PM In reply to jenn52

    Re: How much longer should I wait?

    Wow!  My vet never even told me anything like that.  I took Misty out for a walk the next day.  I would have that evening, but I think all the excitement of the vet visit, seeing the other dogs, and meeting different people, pooped her out.  They even asked me two days later when they got the results back from her stool sample that she had worms, and I picked up her medicine how she was after her visit.  When I told them how pooped she was we all laughed.  I don't see why you couldn't take her for a walk. 

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