Expired Vaccines

[Raccroc]

Is there any way to keep a vaccination record for an animal when it is expired, but not have it flag as expired in the vaccination book?

Here is what we keep are running into:

We use a lot of different vets (we have fosters all over Texas), as well as we get a lot of owner surrenders who have had shots. Some vets use variations of DAPP/DHPP/Da2PP while others tend to favor DHLPP/DA2LPP (same, but with Lepto). A dog often comes in with one of those ready to expire, or is in rescue long enough that it expires while they are in the rescue. When they get vaccinated, the vet who is used, uses the other type. This leaves us with two different vaccination records, one of which is perpetually expired.

Example: DAPP expired in 08/25 - new vaccination given on 08/25 is DHLPP. Unless we get rid of or change the date on the DAPP, the dog will get flagged as having an expired vaccination.

We want to keep the with-Lepto and without-Lepto as separate vaccinations. We also want to keep track of legacy vaccinations for things like history completeness, booster dates, and the ability to go from 1y to 3y on certain vaccinations.

A similar issue occurs with vaccinations outside of our typical core, such as lyme vaccine (lyme doesn't really exist in TX, but we see the vaccinations on dogs who have traveled recently from out of state) and canine influenza vaccine (we only give to high risk dogs or when required for boarding).

The only options I've come up with is either delete the legacy shot (not ideal), separate DHLPP/DA2LPP to show Lepto separately always and enter two shots if they get DHLPP/DA2LPP (doesn't solve the other issues), or change the expiration date of the expired show to a date in future to match to current vaccination type (sloppy).

Any other suggestions on how to handle this?

On a side note: It would be nice to have an emblem for expired vaccinations to show up in Shelter View instead of just a never vaccinated one. It'd be really nice to see at a glance all dogs who need updating and that would be much more convenient than having to purposefully go to the vaccination book to look (out of site, out of mind rings especially true when dealing with volunteers).