About PuppyVaccinationSchedule.com
An independent reference for what a puppy vaccination schedule actually looks like in May 2026, written against the AAHA 2022 Canine Vaccination Guidelines (US), the WSAVA Vaccination Guidelines (global), and the BSAVA position statement (UK). Free personalised calendar generator, per-vaccine deep dives, country-specific cost guides, and no vendor relationships.
Why this site exists
New puppy owners get a paper leaflet at the first vet visit with the next three or four dates on it. That leaflet is correct but heavily compressed. It does not explain why DHPP needs four doses (maternal antibody timing), why the 16-week dose is the critical one (AAHA's explicit position), or why the UK and US schedules diverge on Leptospirosis (regional serovar prevalence). The primary sources that do explain those things, the AAHA 2022 PDF, the WSAVA guideline, the BSAVA position statement, are accurate but not human-readable for owners.
This site translates those primary sources into a personalised calendar (enter your puppy's date of birth, get real appointment dates plus an ICS export) and per-vaccine pages that name the disease, the dose schedule, the published cost range, and the adverse-event profile. The audit goal is reproducibility: every interval and protocol on the site should be re-derivable from a named primary source.
The decision support that owners actually need (when can my puppy go in the garden? when is the socialisation window? what counts as a concerning reaction?) is not covered well anywhere except deep inside paywalled vet textbooks. The /when-can-puppy-go-outside page synthesises the AVSAB position statement on socialisation with AAHA's fully-protected-date guidance to produce a single answer for a specific date of birth, which is what the question actually means.
Who builds this
PuppyVaccinationSchedule.com is built and maintained by Oliver Wakefield-Smith at Digital Signet, an independent reference-content studio. Oliver is not a veterinarian. The site exists because the editorial pattern (translate authoritative primary sources into a calendar plus deep-dive structure with named citations) is one Digital Signet applies across a portfolio of decision-support reference sites.
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The editorial review for veterinary content is run against the cited primary sources on each refresh cycle. If a passage on this site disagrees with the cited source, it is the cited source that wins; the page is updated.
Editorial position
This is an educational reference, not veterinary advice and not a substitute for an in-person vet consultation. Schedule decisions for an individual puppy depend on local parvo prevalence, the mother's vaccination history, the puppy's day-of-vaccine health, breed-size adverse-event risk per Moore et al (JAVMA 2005), and lifestyle exposure to boarding, daycare, dog parks, and tick-endemic areas. None of those are assessable from a website. The schedule the calendar produces is the AAHA / BSAVA canonical schedule; the attending vet has the final word on whether and how to adjust it for an individual puppy.
There are no paid placements from vaccine manufacturers (Zoetis, MSD Animal Health, Boehringer Ingelheim, Elanco, Virbac), veterinary chains, or pet retailers. Brand names referenced (Nobivac, Canigen, Bronchi-Shield, Vanguard) are named for clinical specificity, not endorsement. The pet-insurance comparison card section on the homepage is flagged as an affiliate surface; where the underlying program is not yet active, the cards link to a placeholder and the disclosure text is shown verbatim.
Where the AAHA, WSAVA, and BSAVA guidance differ (rare, but real for Leptospirosis and for adult-booster intervals), the site shows both positions, names which body holds which, and explains the rationale rather than picking a winner. Where the guidance is genuinely contested in published veterinary literature (titer testing as a substitute for boosters; spaced vaccine schedules), the site says so.
What this site covers
Editorial principles
Methodology in brief
The schedule generator takes a puppy's date of birth and applies AAHA-anchored week offsets (6, 9-10, 12-13, 16) for US schedules or BSAVA / WSAVA-anchored offsets (8-10, 10-12, optional 14-16 final) for UK schedules. The fully-protected date is the final puppy dose plus two weeks, per WSAVA. Cost ranges synthesise published industry data (Lemonade Pet 2024 cost-of-care, ManyPets 2025 vet pricing data, Embrace claims data, PDSA published rates) into low / mid / high bands; individual clinic pricing varies and the site says so. The full methodology, including the source list and refresh cadence, is at /methodology.
Disclosures
- Educational resource only. Not a substitute for in-person veterinary care. Always confirm your puppy's individual schedule with your vet.
- No affiliate parameters on AAHA, WSAVA, BSAVA, AVMA, AVSAB, or UC Davis source links. Pet-insurance comparison cards (homepage) are flagged as affiliate where active.
- Not affiliated with AAHA, WSAVA, BSAVA, AVMA, AVSAB, UC Davis VMTH, any vaccine manufacturer, or any veterinary chain.
- Cost ranges are estimates synthesised from published industry data (Lemonade, ManyPets, Embrace, PDSA). Individual clinic pricing depends on geography, clinic type, and bundled services not captured here.
Contact and corrections
For corrections, source disagreements, or to flag a passage that does not match the cited primary source: contact Digital Signet via digitalsignet.com. Corrections that point to a specific named source are reviewed within 5 business days and either applied or replied to with the rationale for the existing wording.
If your puppy is showing signs of a reaction or you have an urgent question about a missed dose, do not email this site. Call your vet. The decision support here is for planning, not for emergencies.