This is for anyone who contracted Kennel Cough at Potomac, or at the shows a couple of weeks prior to Potomac-
If you brought your sick dog to the Veterinarian and they took sputum cultures, I am extremely interested in those culture results if you would please share them with me.
I was at a show the weekend before and heard/saw a dog coughing. I did not see/hear any at the Potomac. I had my dogs vaccinated with intranasal Boradatella about 10 days before the first show.
A dog in the next ring was coughing badly. Mine had already been exposed a couple months earlier to this strain and were okay. They coughed for about a week in feb. And had been inoculated in November.
A dog in the next ring was coughing badly. Mine had already been exposed a couple months earlier to this strain and were okay. They coughed for about a week in feb. And had been inoculated in November.
There are a number of different strains. The widely used serum does not cover all the strains. My guys were all current on vaccinations, and the one who started coughing at a circuit this winter obviously picked up a different strain and brought it home where the others caught it. Even when exposed to coughing dogs at Potomac, they all stayed well. My common sense and the vet's expertise concluded that this was a strain that they had developed a resistance to due to their previous exposure,
