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Old June 20th, 2008, 07:59 PM
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Rather than ask the area vets what vaccinations they recommend, ask them if, for example, leptospirosis is common in the area. If so, vaccination might be the way to go. If they don't see much of it, then skip the vaccine.

The diseases I'd ask about here would be: tick-borne diseases (Lyme's, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, etc) and leptospirosis.

The only tick-borne disease here with a current vaccine is Lyme's, but the presence of any tick-borne disease would, of course, warn you that you'd have to watch for ticks.

Leptospirosis is spotty here, but Hazel Run rodents evidently have it The dogs caught it earlier this year.

The other thing you might want to consider is frequent fecal analyses or just a frequent deworming schedule. We finally stopped testing fecal samples...since they were all positive anyway, it was just cheaper to use the wormer every 3 months during the warm seasons and have a winter fecal done to make sure we've caught everything
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