Pet Vaccination Record Template (Free, Printable)
Free pet vaccination record template for dogs and cats. Track all vaccines, due dates, lot numbers, and vet details. Covers both the 'pet vaccination record template' and 'pet shot record template' keywords.
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A pet vaccination record template tracks every vaccine your pet has received — the name, date, due date, lot number, and administering vet — in a single printable document you can take to any vet, boarder, or groomer.
What Is a Vaccination Record?
Boarding facilities, groomers, daycares, and dog parks increasingly require proof of up-to-date vaccinations before admitting your pet. A complete vaccination record in hand means instant access to that proof — and ensures you never miss a due date.
This template covers all core vaccines for dogs and cats, with columns for lot numbers (useful in the event of a vaccine recall), administering vet, and next due date. Download, print, and take it to your next vet appointment to fill in your pet's history.
When Do You Need This?
What to Include
1. Core vaccines — dogs
- Rabies (required by law in all states)
- Distemper-Parvovirus (DHPP)
- Bordetella (Kennel Cough)
- Leptospirosis
- Canine Influenza
- Lyme (if applicable by region)
2. Core vaccines — cats
- Rabies
- FVRCP (Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis, Calicivirus, Panleukopenia)
- FeLV (Feline Leukaemia — for outdoor cats)
3. Record fields per vaccine
- Vaccine name and brand
- Date administered
- Due date / expiry
- Lot number
- Administering vet and clinic
- Certificate number (rabies)
Legal Notes by State
Rabies law: All 50 U.S. states legally require rabies vaccination for dogs. Most require it for cats. Some require a 3-year vaccine (not all clinics carry it — ask specifically). Your rabies certificate is a separate legal document; keep the original and record the number here.
AAHA guidelines: The AAHA Canine Vaccination Guidelines (2022) classify vaccines as core (all dogs should receive) and non-core (based on risk). Distemper combo (DHPP) and rabies are core. Bordetella, leptospirosis, Lyme, and influenza are non-core — discuss with your vet based on your dog's lifestyle.
The Template
Copy the text below, or use the download buttons. Replace all [BRACKETED FIELDS] with your specific information before use.
PET VACCINATION RECORD Pet Name: _____________________ Species: _______________ Breed: _____________________ Sex: ___ DOB: ___________ Microchip #: _____________________ Owner: _____________________ Phone: ___________________ PRIMARY VETERINARIAN Clinic: _____________________ Phone: ___________________ Address: _____________________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DOG VACCINES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Vaccine | Date | Due Date | Lot # | Vet/Clinic ----------------|----------|----------|---------|------------ Rabies (1yr) | | | | Rabies (3yr) | | | | DHPP (1yr) | | | | DHPP (3yr) | | | | Bordetella | | | | Leptospirosis | | | | Lyme | | | | Canine Influenza| | | | Other: | | | | Rabies Certificate #: ___________________ Expiry: ____________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CAT VACCINES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Vaccine | Date | Due Date | Lot # | Vet/Clinic ----------------|----------|----------|---------|------------ Rabies (1yr) | | | | Rabies (3yr) | | | | FVRCP (1yr) | | | | FVRCP (3yr) | | | | FeLV | | | | FIV | | | | Other: | | | | Rabies Certificate #: ___________________ Expiry: ____________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ UPCOMING DUE DATES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Vaccine: ___________________ Due: ___________________ Vaccine: ___________________ Due: ___________________ Vaccine: ___________________ Due: ___________________ Notes: ________________________________________ Last updated: ____________ By: ____________
This template is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. For legally binding documents, consult a qualified attorney in your jurisdiction.
Frequently Asked Questions
How often does my dog need vaccines?+
Core vaccines (rabies, DHPP) are typically given at 1 year after puppy series, then every 3 years for most adult dogs. Non-core vaccines like Bordetella may require annual or biannual boosters depending on exposure. Always follow your vet's recommendation — AAHA publishes updated vaccination guidelines every few years.
What is a rabies certificate and where do I get one?+
A rabies certificate is an official document signed by the administering vet confirming your pet received a rabies vaccination. You receive it at the time of vaccination. Keep the original — boarding facilities, groomers, and some states require the signed original, not a photocopy.
My boarding facility requires vaccines — is this form sufficient?+
This template is for your personal records. Boarding facilities typically want to see official vet-issued certificates (especially the signed rabies certificate) or a letter from your vet confirming current vaccination status. Bring both this record (for your reference) and your official certificates.