the splat in the hat
Banned
I owned 8 dogs, until parvo.
Now I own 3 , my wife and I have lost 5 puppies to the third strand of Parvo , the most deadliest of all strands.
Parvo infects the intestine wall of the puppy and in effect stops the animal from taking fluids and solids , eventually it eats away at the intestine wall causeing all sorts of complications, and most of the time death, even if the animal sirvives , its very likely to suffer kiddney and or liver problems later in life.
The animal usually dies from dehydration first, unless a drip is used, if the animals immune system cannot fight the viris off the inevitable happens and the intestine wall degrades and death follows, its painfull if not at a vets on a drip and antasetic , dont let your puppies suffer if it happens.
These puppies were immunised , however , there is apparently a window of opartunity for the viris when the puppies come off the mothers milk and between the immunisation, as it can only be done when the puppies reach the right age , the window is small , but if infected , devistating .
Definately immunise , but parvo , for those whom dont know , can be transported/transmitted by so many means its just not funny. The underneath of your shoe/foot, your clothes , hands, its found all over the place in the wild , its immpossible to completely protect your puppies .
We after the first puppies fell ill with symtoms , cleaned our entire house veranders , with clorine bleach , we clorined the lawn , and killed it , all recommeded things to do by vet , but it still infected the other 4 puppies. The first puppy went to the vet on the day she fell ill, went onto a drip for fluids and still past away. The other 4 puppies all went to the vets, when the second fell ill, we had them all put on a drip , for fluids, by the 4th day they were in such a bad state, we had to put them down . This desiese is crewl , insidious , and the most distcusting lve ever seen , I grew up on a dairy farm and have seen some fowl things, but parvo in its extreem is putrid .
The vet costs were around 3500 aust dollars , we had them on antasetic so they were not in any pain .
You cannot presume your puppies safe even if they havent been out of your yard , immunise , even with the window of oppertunity, we were very unluky , to get the worst strand. Our puppies even more unluky....
