Can dogs get sick from their Bordetella vaccine?

March 9th, 2010 | by admin |

We adopted a dog from the pound, and he seemed very healthy until he got his round of vaccines. Ever since the vet’s office, he’s had symptoms indicating kennel cough. Is it possible that the vaccine made him sick?

*I am taking him to the vet again on Mon….so no need to tell me that. Just wondering if dogs ever get sick from the vaccine.

My dog gets regularly vaccinated but she got kennel cough. The vet told us that there are some types of kennel cough that are resistant to the vaccine and sometimes they get it even though she had her bordetella.

  1. 3 Responses to “Can dogs get sick from their Bordetella vaccine?”

  2. By skye_blue_05 on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply

    I wouldn’t think that it would make him sick to the point of having the symptoms of what he was vaccinated against. Yes a vaccine is a small amount of what the dog is vaccinated against to build an immunity to it, but it would only make him a little yucky feeling at most I would think.

    It could be something secondary like an allergy from outside or even a common cold. When I got my last puppy from the shelter earlier this year, she had a cold with coughing and a runny nose. Just had her on a week or two of meds and she was fine.

    But, you’re taking him to the vet on Monday, so it should all be okay. Hopefully it’ll be resolved in one visit.
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  3. By setashort55 on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply

    My dog gets regularly vaccinated but she got kennel cough. The vet told us that there are some types of kennel cough that are resistant to the vaccine and sometimes they get it even though she had her bordetella.
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  4. By iluvtorofl on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply

    yes
    it’s very common

    The older vet at the clinic here doesn’t even give the KC vaccine. I was amazed at all the people who posted about it on these boards. It just surprises me that you all seem to have such a problem with the disease. I asked our older vet, Dr. Wilson, and he said it was because you live in more crowded surroundings? And the more you vaccinate the more it actually spreads the disease because the dogs never work up their own natural immunity to the viruses and bacteria. We just don’t have a lot of it here, but we don’t live in crowded areas either. And of course nobody in hooterville areas ever kennel their dogs. We just watch each others pets.
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