Routine Care
All vaccine and preventative medicine protocols are tailored to each individual pet. For questions or additional information about any of the vaccines/care suggestions listed, please contact the NMSAC staff.
Standard medical protocols and vaccines:
All Animals
- Rabies Vaccinations
- Required by law for all animals
- First vaccination lasts for one year, subsequent vaccinations last for three years
- Microchips
- For more information on microchips contact the NMSAC staff or go to homeagain.com
- Flea Preventative
- Advantage controls fleas in dogs and cats
- Frontline plus controls fleas and ticks in dogs
- Parasite Control
- Deworming is recommended for all puppies, kittens, and adopted animals
- Heartworm preventative also prevents intestinal parasites in dogs
- Flea Control
- We also now offer Comfortis, monthly flea prevention with the convenience of a pill. It kills fleas and prevents infestation. We can add the Scalibor 6-month Tick collar with it and have the best of both preventions. Scalibor is newly released from Schering Plough in this country, but has been used with great success in Europe for many years.
- Spaying/Neutering
Dogs
- DHPP(L)
- Distemper/Hepatitis/Parainfluenza/Parvovirus
- Leptospirosis is optionally included for at risk animals
- First time patients receive a series of three or four vaccinations
- Subsequent vaccinations are done yearly
- Heartworm Control
- For more information on heartworms go to www.heartwormsociety.org
- Heartworm tests are recommended every two years for dogs who stay on preventative
- Yearly tests are recommended for animals who are not on year round preventative
- Iverhart is a monthly heartworm preventative that also guards against intestinal parasites
- Bordetella
- Commonly known as the kennel cough vaccine
- Required by most boarding and grooming facilities
- Lyme Vaccine
- Recommended for dogs at high risk for Lyme disease
Cats
- FVRCPC
- Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis/Calici/Panleukopenia/Chlamydia
- First time patients receive a series of two vaccinations
- Subsequent vaccinations are given yearly until age 6, then your pet will be vaccinated every 3 years.
- FELV/FIV
- Feline Leukemia/Aids
- Recommended for all outdoor or indoor/outdoor cats
- FELV/FIV is transmitted through bodily fluids
- A FELV/FIV test is recommended before vaccination
