Yearly Health Schedule for Cavaliers
The below is highly recommended schedule to follow to help give your Cavalier King Charles Spaniel a healthy life.
Annual Vet health check:
It is important that your Cavalier has an annual health check with your vet. Part of the annual check-up should include examination of heart, joints, ears, eyes, teeth, skin, lumps, anal glands (these may need extracting).
Yearly Vaccinations:
Cavaliers requires protection from many diseases, worms, fleas and ticks. However what your dog needs depends on where you live (suburb, rural, tropics etc.) and what is in your environment. We recommend researching and discussing it with your Veterinarian. Some of the common preventions include the below:
C5 vaccination (Every 3 years). The C5 vaccination protects dogs from five common and potentially diseases, these are: 1) Canine Distemper, 2) Canine Adenovirus-2 (hepatitis), 3) Canine Parvovirus, 4) Parainfluenza and 5) Bordetella Bronchiectasis (kennel cough). This is essential as this disease can be spread through the air. It is also a requirement if you ever go on holiday and place your Cavalier in a dog hotel or kennel.
Proheart heartworm prevention vaccination: This vaccination prevents cardiopulmonary dirofilariosis which is a mosquito-borne parasitic disease caused by dirofilarial immitis (heartworm).
All wormer: There are many products available, discuss with your Veterinarian. Depending on what product you use, this can be required every three months (some products are monthly). An all wormer protects dogs from intestinal worms, including roundworms, hookworms, tapeworms and whipworms.
Flea and tick prevention: This can be in the form of a vaccination or a pill). Depending on the products used. This vaccination (or Prevents against fleas and ticks including paralysis ticks).
Diet:
To elongate your Cavaliers life and do your very best to minimise health challenges, it is vital that you provide your Cavalier with a high quality food. At Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Rescue Queensland we provide our rescue dogs in foster care with a BARF diet. However sometimes the digestive system of our senior dogs are compromised and they do not always tolerate this diet. As a Cavalier parent it is important that you research a healthy diet for your dog.
Brands we use include:
Meat and bones from local butchers.
We recommend supporting our long-time supporter Kelly Davidson from The Curious Dog & Raw Health 4 Dogs. She has a shop in Tweed Heads and offers delivery.
We also recommend supporting our Primary Sponsor 5 Hounds by Dr Will who has donated the food that our foster dogs and permanent foster dogs eat and love.