[bgill]

Take care of your pets by making a round of the yard to check for standing water.

[edzo4]

My mutts get a lepto shot every year, vet recommend it cause they spend a lot of time at the public dog parks

[MagUSNRET]

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[Tennessee Conservative]

It’s so common here that our vet gives all dogs and puppies the vaccine. For the small breed puppies she give the Lepto vaccine split into two doses and advises Benadryl prior to the appointment. The vaccine can be hard on some dogs but not nearly as bad as the disease. I had to put a horse down once because he caught Lepto from my neighbor’s unvaccinated cows. It’s a big problem in states in the South. Some dogs are exposed and never have symptoms but by the time they get symptoms it’s very hard to treat. Caught early is it treatable. It’s also able to be passed to humans through contact with urine. Wildlife like deer, rabbits, rats, raccoons, etc. spread it. After a rain it passes into ponds, and other bodies of standing water. My dogs are all vaccinated yearly against it. Bad disease!

[Zman]

Lepto killed my beloved Golden, Sherlock, after digging in the sand on the Oregon coast. This disease is no joke; get your dogs anti-lepto shots annually.

[vetvetdoug]

It never went away. Its always been around. The number of cases have increased because the holistic veterinarians are clamoring against vaccinations. Even if one’s dogs have a high titer, there are several serotypes that escape the vaccine. Do the best one can with what one has at hand and avoid areas that can harbour lepto. Raw meat is also an excellent source of the disease.