When I got titers for one of my GSDs I was told they would show the dog still have protections up to 6-8 yrs after the last shots.
Even after that the dog is "probably" still covered but the protection goes into memory cells. Still there but not observable in tests unless needed for combating a attack on the body by the viruses inoculated against.
Trooper hadn't had any shots other then rabies for six yrs but his titer test showed he was still well protected.
All that being said, I think the OP's situation is quite different then most here in the States and keeping up with shots in the proper order would be something I would certainly consider and probably do.
When I did natural earth work with my terriers I actually got a rabies shot myself because I was often up close and personal with some might irritated critters.
In the US, rabies, parvo, distemper exist but our pet dogs sure don't encounter these diseases with any frequency, we are very fortunate.
In India my understanding is that rabies is common.
The vaccines do work, they do protect against wild type virus. In our world over-vaccinating is a bigger threat than the diseases themselves, perhaps. But I don't think that is true everywhere.
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"The vaccines do work, they do protect against wild type virus. In our world over-vaccinating is a bigger threat than the diseases themselves, perhaps. But I don't think that is true everywhere. "
Yes, this is a point that it took me a while to understand is so extremely crucial.
I had polio in the 1950s, at the big turning point against this disease's existence in North America: when the work of Salk and Sabin came to fruition.
And I can still conveniently "forget" how very different it is to live on a continent where a scourge has been wiped out, for almost all practical purposes, than on one that is still experiencing and battling it.
Sometimes, in fact, it's all too easy to forget how such horrors as smallpox, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, and cholera were wiped out ... and, as Betty says, how very fortunate we are.
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