Restarting vaccinations

We've recently adopted an 19month border collie bitch.  She was a stray but has obviously been in a home at some stage as is house trained, used to the car etc.  The vet has restarted her vaccinations but insists we don't walk her for three weeks until the second vaccination. Over cautious or reasonable?

Shame vet did not titre test before starting the re-vaccinating process to find out if your rescue was covered already.

As you do not know the vaccination history of your rescue, this could be first set of vaccinations it has had. Your vet has said what they would say to anyone who has an unvaccinated dog. Also you have to remember if they say go exercise your dog and it got ill then there would be a liability issue. I think what the vet has said makes sense and is reasonable, when you think about it from their perspective.

As to if you follow the vet advice, only you can decide!

You need to consider things like if there is an issue in local area with lepto, distemper, parvo, KC etc at the moment which could increase the risk for your dog if it is not fully vaccinated. Can you walk areas that are not highly frequented with dogs as obviously if you have to walk somewhere where lots of dogs walk then that increases risk of coming into contact with things.

I have always had dogs from 8 weeks old so know their vaccination history. Really need some of the members who have taken on rescues to advise on what they have done.

Jumping in instead of starting a new thread.

Those who do give boosters, do you stop at a certain age?

Alfie's boosters are due November and he'll be 14 in January, he's had boosters his whole life. I'd rather stop to be honest, now he has kidney disease, less chemicals the better but also paranoid he might catch something (lets face it, Alfie is good at getting ill lol).

Thanks orpheous87, I might do that. I haven't mentioned about vaccines to them so they haven't either, if I did ask maybe they'd say to stop anyway.

I feel bad that I forgot to ask for Titres this year, thinking it was a non core (i.e lepto) year only to find out after appointment it was the whole lot, must put in diary for doing in 2020 (i.e when cores are due next)!
Always question if its still L2, I have made decision that they will not get L4 again (had it back in Norfolk few years back), heard too many bad things.

When I questioned about what is common locally my vet said they sees cases of lepto (linked to fact area is a livestock area), the odd Parvo and KC is issue at this time of year when tourists are about!

My previous ( Tobi ) wasnt vaccinated after 8 years vets told me he probably had built up amunity, like barley Tobi had a lot of health issues for last 2 years of his life and didnt want to add further drugs into his system

Edit ... But not an option with Beau whos coming up for 10, as he goes into kennels

Thanks migsy that's good to know, he doesn't go into kennels