The unfortunate fact is that most sellers of dogs are like little children playing doctor: the kids take out their toy stethoscope, candy pills, and four dollar microscope and treat each other. Just innocent child's play until they get into their parent's prescription drugs, then the game turns deadly. In the dog world, the children often call themselves "breeders." All too often their knowledge is limited to what their friends and the party that sold them a dog passed on, right or wrong. So with little to no knowledge of their dogs' heredity faults and less knowledge of the stimulation of the dogs' immune systems (building immunity against life taking viruses), you unknowingly must rely primarily on luck to get your new canine friend through the years ahead. It is the puppy programs that the future adult inoculation program builds. A short-cut puppy immunization program and the adult dog can suffer.

Well, "luck" is important, but we would rather boost the odds of success by adding knowledge--knowledge we have gained by our actual 50+ years of continual service to the Doberman owner and the first hand contact with the Hoytt Dobes that came before the Dobe to whom you may be opening your heart and home to. Add the best health and care program available, which is outlined in the Permanent Health Record (PHR) below, and you are one step closer to understanding how we better serve our clients.

The PHR below is an example of the document that each Hoytt Dobe owner receives at time of delivery. Normal viruses which can create havoc with a healthy Dobe, many times taking its life, can literally be eliminated with our more involved inoculation program. The following is a reference to what each inoculation is for:

4 weeks of age -	Strongid Wormer
5 weeks of age -	Vanguard Plus 5-CV, Bordetella, Strongid Wormer
8 weeks of age -	Vanguard Plus 5-CV, Srongid Wormer
11 weeks of age -	Vanguard 5/L, Bordetella Strongid Worming
16 weeks of age -	Vanguard 5/L, Strongid Wormer, Rabies

Further, if we place a pup under sixteen weeks, you are required at sixteen weeks of age to give one added Booster which will be outlined on the Permanent Health Record (PHR) that is given with each pup. If the pup stays for one or more of our development programs and the dog reaches sixteen weeks while with us, we add the extra inoculation. Also one of the reasons we begin early is to minimize the stress on the pup's immune system since we do in fact introduce, each time, the actual virus we are trying to prevent.