Bordetella Vaccinations

So sweet little Ben (mini Aussiedoodle) has "kennel cough", as diagnosed by my beloved Vet back in Michigan after not being able to get an appointment in FL for 2-1/2 weeks. He has been vaccinated yearly, for all of his 8 years of age.

Apparently, the Bordetella vaccine is sort of like the Covid vaccine - works against some variants better than others; and although he has it - it's a very mild case (occasional coughing/gagging after racing up the stairs or wrestling with the big dog, etc) and my Vet said to give him a little bit of honey to soothe his throat, which he really likes! Of course, if he starts to act ill, doesn't eat, etc - then we'll take him to the emergency vet - but so far, he seems bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and we'll just let it run its course.

Thanks to Ben's still-crazy adolescent "brother" Augie, we regularly go to the local dog park; so I'm sure that's where Ben picked it up. I've warned my dog-owning neighbors back in Michigan that Ben might still be contagious when we get back, in case their dogs haven't been vaccinated.

I'm just giving a head's-up, since RVers' dogs are exposed to so many other dogs.