Educational resource only. Not veterinary advice. Always confirm your puppy's schedule with your vet.

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.

Reviewed against primary sources May 2026

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

Interactive calendar
Free personalised schedule generator. Enter DOB and breed size, get appointment dates plus ICS calendar export.
US schedule (AAHA 2022)
Canonical US puppy vaccination schedule, state rabies laws (15 states), and shelter catch-up protocols.
UK schedule (BSAVA / WSAVA)
UK primary course, Lepto 2 vs Lepto 4 explained, UK vaccine brands, and pet-travel rabies notes.
US cost guide
Per-shot cost, state-by-state ranges, vet-type comparison, and how to lower the bill.
UK cost guide
UK regional pricing, charity vet options (PDSA, Blue Cross), corporate vs independent vet comparison.
When can puppy go outside?
Fully-protected date calculator plus AVSAB socialisation guidance.
Vaccine side effects
Normal vs concerning vs emergency reactions with time windows.
By breed size
Toy, small, medium, large, giant breed considerations. Moore et al adverse-event data.
Adult booster schedule
1-year booster, 3-year DHPP cycle, annual Lepto and Bordetella, titer testing, senior schedule.
DHPP vaccine
Distemper, Hepatitis, Parvovirus, Parainfluenza. 4 doses 6-16 weeks.
Rabies vaccine
State-by-state US laws, UK pet travel rules, 1-year vs 3-year booster.
Bordetella
Lifestyle decision tree, oral vs intranasal vs injectable.
Leptospirosis
Lepto 2 vs Lepto 4 serovars, side-effect profile in small breeds.
Lyme disease
US tick-endemic region map, Lyme vaccine vs tick prevention comparison.
Canine influenza
H3N2 and H3N8 strains, outbreak history, boarding requirements.
Vaccination FAQ
16 in-depth questions: missed shots, DIY vaccination, titer testing, parvo exposure, DA2PP vs DHPP.

Editorial principles

Source pattern
Every schedule, dose interval, and protocol on this site traces back to a named primary source: the AAHA 2022 Canine Vaccination Guidelines, the WSAVA Vaccination Guidelines for Dogs and Cats, the BSAVA position statement on vaccination, AVMA vaccination principles, AVSAB's position on socialisation, or the published UC Davis VMTH shelter-medicine protocols. Where the source is paywalled or PDF-only, the relevant passage is summarised inline rather than paraphrased loosely.
Not veterinary advice
This site is educational. Vaccination decisions for an individual puppy depend on local disease prevalence, the mother's vaccination status, the puppy's health on the day, and breed-size adverse-event risk. None of those variables can be assessed remotely. Every page on the site says so, and the schedule output explicitly defers to the attending vet on dose timing and lifestyle vaccine selection.
No paid placements from vaccine manufacturers
There are no sponsorship arrangements, no premium positioning, and no paid editorial relationships with vaccine manufacturers (Zoetis, MSD Animal Health, Boehringer Ingelheim, Elanco, Virbac), veterinary chains, or pet retailers. Brand names referenced on the site (Nobivac, Canigen, Bronchi-Shield, Vanguard) are named for clinical specificity, not endorsement.
Monthly review cadence
The schedule and cost ranges are reviewed against the cited primary sources on the first business week of each month. The current verified label reads May 2026. Where the primary source is itself stable (the AAHA guidelines revise every 2-3 years), the review confirms no superseding guidance has shipped.
Single-source freshness
The verification date is held in one constant (LAST_VERIFIED_DATE) imported by every page. Footer text, schema dateModified, and visible review timestamps all read from that single source so cosmetic refreshes are not possible without a content review.
No fabricated pricing
Cost ranges cite Lemonade Pet 2024 cost-of-care data, ManyPets 2025 vet pricing data, Embrace claims data, and PDSA / Blue Cross published rates for the UK charity-vet floor. Individual clinic pricing is never invented or extrapolated; ranges reflect the lower and upper bounds of these public datasets and are flagged as estimates.

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

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.

Updated 2026-05-11