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Important vaccines for your dogs and why you should give it

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  What are vaccines and why do dogs need it?  Vaccines assist a dog's immune system in preparing to protect itself against disease-causing germs. Antigens in vaccines imitate disease-causing organisms in the immune system of dogs, but they do not cause disease.  The goal of puppy and dog vaccinations is to activate the immune system by causing it to identify antigens that are present.  If a dog is exposed to genuine sickness, its immune system will identify it and be ready to fight it off, or at the very least mitigate its symptoms.  Dog vaccinations work by allowing the immune system to build up defenses against illnesses. Disease antigens in a vaccination activate the immune system but do not infect the dog.  If your dog is ever exposed to a genuine illness, the immune system will produce antibodies to combat it, this is the basic idea behind dog vaccinations.  According to projections in the media, puppy adoption rates in India are expected to increase by 50-100 percent by 202