A better chance to survive and cheaper on the owner - Parvo
By tosha86
@tosha86 (133)
United States
March 28, 2009 12:57am CST
What your vet don't tell you and I bet you didn't know... There is more than one level/strand of parvo. (actually about 5) This is some handy info for true dog lovers and a way to tell exactly what lengths you would go to for your four legged friend. The parvo virus takes so many of our loved ones and we just sit by feeling helpless! But in all actuality parvo is just that, a virus. If you know your dog like the back of your hand then you should be able to detect parvo early on. It usually starts with the dog not eating and drinking. It is then followed by throwing up and diarea. Your dog will begin throwing up white foam and once the virus is taking good affect they will poop watery blood. The thing that kills our babies is not parvo itself but dehidration. Now here's the thing... if you take it to the vet not only will they charge you your lifes savings to keep and so called take care of your dog but they will also try to put it in your head that your baby may not make it. They say they will do all they can. If you ask me, leaving my baby all alone over night is not doing all you can! Ask yourself, when you are sick or upset or maybe just having a bad day, who is there to dry your tears, cuddle with you or just give you that look to make you feel better? Mans best friend does! So don't you think you owe them a little something? A dog is always more comfortable and less stressed at home with their owner and who do you think they will fight harder for you or your vet? If you can dedicate yourself to keep a schedule on every time your pupp throws up, has diarea, drinks and how much it drinks then you can dedicate yourself to cure this baby. All you need is clear unflavored pedialyte, a thermometer, a surenge, pen and paper, 23-26 gauge needles and surenge that you can also get at walmart, a babies booger sucker, parvo antibiotics you can buy from your vet along with an iv bag of fluids. This is all worse case! It is demanding to keep your dog dehidrated, you will not get much sleep for a few nights but usually they are fully recovered by day 3-4. If you think you would like to note how to do this just let me know but I assure you it works better than the vet and its definitely cheaper. We saved 3 dogs from parvo within a 3 week period by doing this and the vets can't believe they all made it. God Bless you all and our furry friends.
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@Bad_Daddy55 (497)
• Canada
29 Mar 09
The biggest problem is that vets stoppped giving the parvo shot to dogs because they stopped seeing the problem showing up at their clinics. That didn't mean that the vrus disappeared on the planet.. Anytime u purchase a dog "MAKE SURE U GET ALL THE SHOTS THAT IS NEEDED , ONCE AGAIN ALL THE SHOTS" It may cost u a few pecos more at the begining but it will save u time money and MOST OF ALL YOUR PET AND FRIEND...Luv your pet , it will always luv u..
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@Bad_Daddy55 (497)
• Canada
29 Mar 09
I forgot to mention where I lived. Windsor,Essex County, Ontatio,Canada.
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@Ritz100 (1169)
• Yecla, Spain
30 Mar 09
Tosha, you state that you want to write a book about this, I think that would be a wonderful idea. Write an ebook, if you know how, if not I can put you in touch with someone who would put it together for you. I have a website called dogsbestdiet.com and would love to sell you book on my site. It is all about natural food and natural remedies for dogs, so I think a book on parvo care would be very appropriate. I have requested you as a friend, if you want to go ahead with something like this please let me know.
@tosha86 (133)
• United States
30 Mar 09
Thank you verrry much for the responses and yes you are very right about the contagiousness of parvo. I first off was just wanting to get the word out to as many as I could and respond to anyone that needed help with this vs writing a book all at once and take the chance of nobody reading it. I will try to answer one at a time and hope I don't leave anything out from your response. But I guess every vet is different because though some want you to get their parvo vac. some will also tell you that your dog has a increased week or two window after getting the vac where they are more prone to actually get parvo being that 1 it lowers their immune system and 2 they are injecting the virus into them as a vac. As for bleaching your yard that is exactly what we did afterwards, I bleached my floors along with towels and all that were used, I kept my hands washed but no extravagant body suit that was to be done away with. The 3 that came down with it were bro. and sis. in all we have over 18 dogs that are here and or come here between our kennel we are star ing and our partners kennel.'This is including puppies' No other dogs have had it before or after and we have had more new additions since the parvo attack on those 3. So yes you have to keep bleach handy and use common sense but its not anything that a healthy pet owner can't do. Oh yeah and as for the smell of there bowels you are so right but it isn't something that hangs around after you clean it up. It smells just like you would think your intestinal track being destroyied and forced out of your body of 102-106 degrees would smell like! You said it great! Unexplainable, nothing like it. Like I said... how much do you love those that love you unconditionally?
Thanks so much for your response. huggs. God Bless
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@Ritz100 (1169)
• Yecla, Spain
28 Mar 09
Well done tosha for this invaluable information. I am heavily involved in rescuing and rehoming dogs, and am please to say that, so far, I have not had to deal with parvo.
I will bear all of this information in mind should it ever happen to me. I currently have 4 dogs and 2 cats in my apartment, so it is a full time job looking after them, especially when they get sick, so I dont mind sleepless nights in order to keep them alive.
May I ask if you first took your dogs to the vets to have the diagnosis of parvo or do you just know what it is when it happens?
@tosha86 (133)
• United States
28 Mar 09
Hello and thanks for your response. My aunt and uncle are both vets and after my first puppy had come down with parvo and I took her to the vet and she was diagnosed with parvo but she was too far gone. I then had started getting into breeding and 3 of my dogs had come down with it as well. I knew this by noticing them not eating or drinking and throwing up white foam just like the pupp did. I then called my aunt and uncle in Louisiana and told them what was going on and they actually diagnosed them by semptoms and told me what to do and I did and it worked. I almost lost one of my females and so I had to work harder with her but she is great now. One of the biggest things is keeping them hidrated. As soon as they throw up or poop you have to guestimate the amount and put that amount of fluid back in them. If they go 30 min without throwing up that's great because in that time there body can obsorb it. But you still have to make them drink or give them pedialyte through surenge orally every 45 min to hour. The amount you give them depends on the size of the dog. Parvo goes for the organs though so you keep them hidrated to keep things like their intestines hidrated as well because parvo will actually dry out the intestines and eat holes through them thus you will see that they will poop watery blood. Lots of blood. So when they begin to do this you get the booger sucker, fill it with warm water and give the dog a enema. Do this 3 times 45 min apart and not again until you feel it may be needed. But if it succeeds in eating holes in the intestines the dog is pretty much gone because at that point the acids and all are pouring into their body/blood. If they are so dehidrated that you can pick up the skin on the back of their neck and it goes down slowly you then have to take the iv fluids and inject them directly between the skin and meat. The fluid will form a bubble under the skin but will go down within a few seconds. The thing is you have to stay on top of this, when you take them to the vet they are left alone overnight and have no care until morning. That's not good.
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