Yolinda Animal Hospital

Canine vaccines

Vaccinations are important part of your pet’s annual wellness examination. We routinely administer the following canine vaccines:

• Bordatella – the bacteria responsible for kennel cough (tracheobronchitis).
• Corona – short for canine coronavirus; causes a highly contagious intestinal disease in dogs.
• DHPP – stands for Distemper, Hepatitis, Parainfluenza and Parvovirus
  • Distemper – a serious viral disease.
  • Hepatitis – caused by adenovirus type 1. The DHPP vaccine used at Yolinda Animal Hospital protects vaccinated dogs against adenovirus type 1 and 2. Adenovirus type 2 causes a highly infectious respiratory disease, and is spread via aerosolized respiratory secretions.
  • Parainfluenza – a respiratory infection is dogs.
  • Parvovirus – generally shortened to parvo; a virus that causes vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, lethargy and immunosuppression.
• Rabies – causes acute inflammation of the brain.
• Lyme vaccine is also available, upon request.
• Vaccination against rattlesnake venon – Rattlesnake bites are excruciatingly painful, expensive to treat, and can be fatal. Fortunately, an inexpensive vaccine is available, that stimulates your pet’s own immunity against rattlesnake venom. If bitten then experience less pain, faster recovery, and reduced risk of permament injury. If your dog accompanies you on hiking, fishing, camping or hunting trips, we highly recommend this vaccine.

Feline vaccines

Vaccinations are important part of your pet’s annual wellness examination. We routinely administer the following feline vaccines: 

• FVRCP -stands for Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis, Calicivirus and Panleukopenia.
  • Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis (FVR) – an upper respiratory infection of cats caused by a feline type 1 herpes virus.
  • Feline Calicivirus – is a virus of the family Caliciviridae that, along with FVR, is responsible for viral respiratory infections in cats.
  • Panleukopenia – also known as feline distemper and feline enteritis.
  The FVRCP vaccine we use also protects cats against Chlamydia psittaci, a bacterium that causes relatively mild upper respiratory disease and conjunctivitis.
• FeLV (feline leukemia virus) – causes immunosuppression in cats.

Vaccine titers

Some more advanced annual vaccines can result in your pet being protected against a particular disease for more than one year, and therefore do not need to be vaccinated annually. The elimination of unnecessary vaccination is particularly important for a minority of pets who experience vaccine reactions. Although these reactions are generally not serious, they do make the pet feel uncomfortable. For these reasons, we are offering vaccine titers for all vaccines except rabies. When a vaccine is due, a sample of your pet’s blood is taken and the level of antibodies to the particular disease causing agent that a particular vaccine protects against is ascertained. In many cases, your pet will already have sufficient protection against that virus or bacterium and vaccination will not be required. Titers must be done annually. In the case of rabies, vaccine titers do not directly correlate with protection against the disease because other immunologic factors also play a role in rabies prevention. Requests for deferral of rabies vaccination can be made by application to the Orange County Rabies Control Desk, and are treated on a case-by-case basis.