Vaccinations & Disease Prevention

Vaccination against infectious diseases has tremendous effects on reducing illness in your pet. At Oradell Animal Hospital, we will create a vaccination program based on your pet's lifestyle and exposure to disease. Core vaccines are generally recommended for all cats and dogs. For cats, core vaccines include panleukopenia, rabies, calicivirus and herpesvirus. For dogs, core vaccines include distemper, rabies, parvovirus, adenovirus. We also recommend bordatella.for dogs and cats that are kenneled or groomed.

Certain vaccines or non-core vaccines are administered to your pet depending upon exposure, risk and lifestyle. For cats this includes vaccines that protect against leukemia virus. For dogs, this includes vaccines that protect against Lyme Disease and Leptospirosis.

Vaccinations help keep your animals healthy and happy. At Bradford Hills we offer full vaccines for your pets.

Because we are geared to care for your individual pet, we don't prescribe to the school of blanket health care. We administer vaccines based solely and completely on the needs of your pet.

As we mentioned in the section on puppies and kittens, they need to be assessed as soon as possible.

In the case of kittens, we believe that prior to vaccination, they should be tested for feline leukemia and feline AIDS because certain medications are not effective if the kitten has already developed either of these diseases.

When it comes to worming, we feel that all puppies and kittens should be de-wormed as early as possible. But if your pet is at a very young age, we might decide to wait to ensure that your pet's internal organs are mature enough to handle treatment.

All puppies and kittens are tested, as early as possible, for intestinal parasites.

If you chose to get a pet from the Humane Society, or take in a stray, or in some other way inherit an older pet, it should be brought in for a full physical exam as soon as possible.

Dogs over six months should always be tested for heartworm.