It has to be an extreme situation before antibiotics are or should be given to a young pup, especially a pup that is just in that 7 to 8 week and up range. The pup has just begun development of it’s own immune system having just been weaned off the mother.

You as the owner of the pup need to safeguard your pup. You need to understand that antibiotics at this stage are a total and absolute disaster for your pups lifelong immune response and immune system. You need to SPEAK UP if a vet is going to administer an antibiotic as a “Routine” precaution for a scratch.

There is little doubt that antibiotics are so over prescribed it’s like every single person in the entire world already knows it, but they can’t seem to speak up about not using it? What the ????

It would have to absolutely so extreme to give a pup who is just developing the immune system, just literally only having a couple weeks on it’s own yet to build this up, this takes months yet. To require an antibiotic would require the absolute worst infection you can imagine, leg torn off, surgery for hours to rebuild after a fall from five thousand feet, something intensely deadly to the pup to give it antibiotics.

Not a scratch, not a sliced off tail, not a torn off ear, not a gash across it’s leg, no these are all topical and don’t require anything other than cleansing and some ointment, natural oils, peroxide, etc. Externally.

If it’s got a bug, give it Ivermectin.

I will do what I can from this point forward to make sure in our documentation for the pups and the new owners handouts to have information on this, but please, share this with folks getting new pups.

Do not destroy the gut bacteria, the little build up of the digestive system the little pup is building now on his / her own. Come on.

I will say this much and I have said it before, give me 5 minutes locked in the garage with a vet that just loves to give that crap routinely to little 8 week old pups, just me / them and Ark, they will learn a new way believe me.