This past weekend Karma stayed at his favorite kennel while I grabbed some R&R in Mexico (don’t hate me because I’m tan – ha!). He loves this place because the owner breeds Berners, and since she knows him well from A-Click-Above, he gets good playtime with other dogs.
This time when he came home, he had received a parting gift – a treatment plan of Clavamox with a note to call Jenn, my friend and the owner of Blue Ribbon Acres.
Jenn reported that one of the 24 dogs staying at the kennel over the weekend had kennel cough (or Tracheobronchitis) even though the lab was current on his Bordetella vaccine. And as a precaution, Jenn gave Clavamox to all the dogs who stayed over the weekend.
I was reminded in this moment that most vaccines can only protect against a few strains of a particular disease, not all of them. Fortunately Karma is not showing any symptoms, and will be taking his medicine just in case.
I have mixed emotions – on one hand, you can never be too careful. On the other hand, we can only do what we can do to give our wonderful dogs the best chance to be safe and healthy for as long as possible.
