The American Animal Care Center helps protect your dog with rabies immunizations
When it comes to your dog’s health, there is no doubt that yearly vaccinations are a necessity, but for many people with dogs, they do not realize that an annual rabies shot should be included in the annual immunizations your dog has at the American Animal Care Center.
Even if your dog is always indoors, and only goes outside when with you or in your back yard, you cannot guarantee that your dog will not come into contact with the deadly disease. A dog can pick up the rabies virus simply by licking the ground if a rabid animal has left saliva or any other body fluid, putting your dog at risk.
Rabies shots are essential if you want to ensure your dog will be healthy for life. Not only that, if your dog were to come into contact with a rabid animal and were infected, your pet could be euthanized in order to stop the potential threat that rabies could give to your family.
Rabies shots lose their effectiveness after a year, and the longer you wait to get your dog vaccinated at the American Animal Care Center, the more at risk it will become. As a matter of fact, if you miss an annual rabies shot by even six months, your dog could be at risk of contracting rabies. At the very most, rabies shots can protect a dog for about two years, but by the end of those two years, the effectiveness of the immunization is greatly deteriorated.
For the best protection for your dog, you should have it vaccinated every year at the American Animal Care Center. Your pet’s health is important, and preventative health care is just as important, if not more because it ensures that your dog is protected against dangerous and painful diseases.