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How olds a pup need to be before getting a rabies shot? I usually just wait till about 8 months old but I have one that's 4 months old Im fixin to start taking and you never know around here what we might encounter. Plus when yall usually start them on ivomec? I usually start them at 6 months old. Can I give it at 4 months recken?

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12 weeks on rabies. 6 weeks on Ivomec. (I looked it up on Doctors Foster and Smith Veterinary Website! )

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5 months rabies
10 weeks Ivomec a very small amount 1/4 mil or a little less given by mouth with a little milk.

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I am a vet tech down at best friend vet in braselton ga and we do rabies at 3 months and you can do ivomec at 8 weeks 1/10th of a cc per 10 lbs of body weight. Have used that method for 8 yrs with goodluck so far!

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All of that sounds pretty well right to me. I figured four months for rabies. The reason is , I want the shot in their system a couple of weeks before they are likely to get bit by a coon. I don't start pups that can't keep up with me getting to a tree. I don't expect younger pups to keep up with my track scortchers. LOL.

Ivermec I give only for heartworms. I am under the impression that microfilaria cannot pass the placenta, therefore pups are born heartworm free. However they can get mosquito bit the day they are born. I am also under the impression that it takes 9 months for the various stages of heartworm filaria to reach the tiny adult stage where they are no longer filaria but a tiny worm that is not susceptable to Ivermeck. Therefore I don't see a reason to start pups on Ivermeck before seven or eight months old.

I use worm medicine for stomack worms depending on what kind of worm I recon it is, but not likely Ivermect for them. I use earmite remedies of several types but not likely Ivermec.

Not long ago I had a feist with a litter that got puppy mange at 5 weks old. I dipped them in a leftover product I had on hand that was no longer on the market. I was advised of a remedy using injectable Ivermec at a rate of two drops out of a syringe per pound of puppy. Then put one cc of water per pup on the Ivermec and since I had seven pups that would be 7 cc of water and give each pup one cc of the solution by mouth daily for a week. I did it and the mange cleared up but I can't swear it wasn't the dip that did it.

I realize Ivermec is pretty safe over a broad range of doses but I also blieve if I use it for worms and mites and everyother problem that might crop up I might get on the high end real quick. JMO

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In other words DAWG....just go on and do it an be done with the discussion! I'd never let one of mine loose in the woods without their rabies up to date.

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Go with what katie said .

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Now was that 1CC per 10 # or 1 CC per pound of Ivomec on the rabies? I can never get that straight!

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It is .1cc per 10 pounds. That is one tenth of one cc. Actually, any vet will tell you .5 cc is the dose for a dog up to 80 pounds.

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It is .1cc per 10 pounds. That is one tenth of one cc. Actually, any vet will tell you .5 cc is the dose for a dog up to 80 pounds.

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That's for the prevention of Rabies? Right?

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No!!! Sorry, I thought we were on Heartworm prevent. All I know about rabies is you go to the vet and get them vaccinated.

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Use to be we could do Rabies innoculations ourselves but it is no longer legal in Georgia.

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