Hello, Welcome to Health Care Magic. Thanks for writing. I am Dr.Saddiq ul Abidin. I have read your question completely, I understand your concern and will try to help you in best way possible. The post Exposure Prophylaxis of rabies depend upon the degree of exposure, and the prophylactic measures may vary from simple antirabies vaccines to the use of passive immunity, in the form of anti-rabies serum or immunoglobulins, but since rabies is a potentially fatal disease and its post exposure vaccination have shown to be having almost 99.9% efficacy, so normally doctors don t recommend taking chances, so even for trivial scratches the vaccinations are suggested quite often. So even that you have been vaccinated once in the past, but since you haven t received any booster in last 5 years, if i were your treating physician, i would have suggested you 4 doses of rabies vaccine, at day 0,3,7 and 21. It would have been more appreciable if we had known the vaccination status of the dog and wheter it can be quarintined or monitered for any symptoms of rabies, by a vet or by some doctor. If dog has not shown any symptoms in 10 days then vaccination schedule may be discontinued after that. I would also suggest you to get your pet vaccinated, as it seems that you have been quite fond of keeping them, referring to the same sort of incidence 7 years ago. I hope this answered your question.If you have more queries I am happy to answer.Otherwise rate before closing the discussion Regrads. Dr.Saddiq ul Abidin M.B.B.S(Licensed Family Physician) Resident Medicine.