Yes, they are, especially rabies. If another dog bites your dog, you would hope that your dog and the other dog are vaccinated against rabies because certain things can come into play, such as the need to quarantine or even euthanize one or both dogs.

Not all are necessary. I strongly recommend certain ones. The core vaccines are absolutely required, which are DA2PP, distemper, adenovirus, parainfluenza, parvovirus, and rabies.

Give your nearest veterinary hospital a call, and we can give you some insight. We may refer you to those other resources, like the pet poison helpline or ASPCA. But, as a whole, we can work through it. And more than likely if we're unsure, we would like to see the pet.

Whether or not your dog is showing symptoms, abnormal signs at home may be because of a toxin, let alone if you saw them eat something, and maybe you don't know whether or not it's toxic. There are certain resources that exist. You can call your nearest veterinary clinic for emergencies first, but we may refer you to things like the pet poison helpline or the ASPCA websites.

As a whole, I would not recommend you as owners giving your dog CPR. It depends on the breed where you do the compressions, let alone giving breaths; it's not like a human mouth. Their mouth is a lot harder to get ahold of there and give breaths to. That's where going to a veterinary hospital for intubation, giving breaths with the equipment we have here, let alone drugs and all of that to be administered, is crucial.

If we are questioning things like perfusion, they've stopped breathing, maybe they've had a heart issue, et cetera, that will absolutely be determined by your veterinarian when you get to the veterinary hospital.