Your dog doesn’t need to be in the kennels to get Kennel Cough!
"Misha & Nikita are the children in my household. When Dr Wimberley recommended that they be vaccinated against Kennel Cough, I was confident that it was a necessary precaution to protect them from serious illness." - Liz Drummond Your dog doesn’t need to be in the kennels to get Kennel Cough! Kennel Cough, or more correctly, Canine Infectious Tracheobronchitis, is a highly contagious infection that causes a persistent cough sometimes lasting up to 3 weeks...it is annoying! Most often it is a bacterium known as Bordetella Bronchiseptica , but sometimes it brings a few friends to the party in your dog’s trachea, viruses like parainfluenza and adenovirus type 2. The disease is transmitted via oronasal contact with aerosolized respiratory secretions, with direct dog-to-dog contact and via contaminated fomites such as toys and food bowls. As COVID-19 has demonstrated in people, one cough from a kennel-cough infected dog sends thousands of droplets into the air, each one ca...