Taking dog to France for the first time
Anyone got any tips/suggestions etc about avoiding all the nasty canine diseases and things that I have read about on the web? We are going to be using Advocate and Advantix to give protection against worms, fleas, ticks etc, but there is also the Leishmaniosis
that they get from sandflies. My vet tells me there is now a vaccination for it, but we have left it too late because we didn't know it existed. Doh! We could get it done in time, but it needs 4 weeks to be effective and we will only be about 1 or 2 weeks
into that 4 week period when we go.
We are heading to Royat in Auvergne to begin with and then over to the Dordogne for our second week. Recommendation that I have read is to keep the dog inside betwen dusk and dawn when the sandflies are active, but that doesn't sound so easy on a caravanning
holiday.