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New Puppy Shots Schedule

The old puppy shots schedule – taught to me and other student vets at vet school decades ago – went like this: We need to protect puppies from as young an age as possible.  So let’s give them their first vaccination at six weeks of age.  However, every puppy gets a big dose of protective antibodies in the first suckle (of colostrum) from its mother.  These antibodies wane over time but are still relative

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