How often do you vaccinate your dogs? If it is every year do you get the full workup? Or do you space it out? I read that now always more modern vets space them out. We see a wonderful old-school vet who does them all yearly. Thoughts?

It depends on the vaccination for starters. For both Rabies and the Distemper/Adenovirus/Parvo combo the second shot is one year after the first, but then after that it's only every third year. Other stuff is annual (Lyme, Leptospirosis, and Bordetella). Personally I don't like to do anything else at the same time as the Rabies one, and at least the first time they get it I do the Leptospirosis one alone as well, since those are the two that tend to be most likely to have adverse reactions. The first time through with a puppy I separated Lyme from DAP, but don't worry about combining those or Bordetella in subsequent boosters. So, we have multiple appointments to get them all covered, rather than doing them all in one go.

I know a lot of people who do titer testing instead of actually doing boosters every year, but haven't gotten into that myself so far.

do you think yearly shots for dogs cause long-term problems? Like extra lumps or anything?

I haven't heard of anything like that, no.

With the exception of the once every 3 year shots, I get them annually. My vet may not be just out of vet school, but regularly shows me that she is empirically driven and definitely not what I would call old school.

If you are concerned about over vaccination of your dog you can do a titers test to look for the antibodies.

Depending on your municipal laws where you live a titers test may or may not be accepted to use a proof of vaccination.

I personally vaccinate both my dogs when my vet says they are due.

Volunteering for a dog rescue I have seen what parvo and kennel cough does to a dog and do not want to see any of my dogs go thru that.