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 "Drank the Kool Aid"
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Location: Iowa, LA | My life is chaotic! A Pit showed up last week, nearly starved to death and now I come home to 20 piles of puke! Vet is thinking Parvo! What can you tell me about an adult 2-3 yr old pulling through this?
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | It's hit and miss.
Did the vet keep it? Make sure to keep the fluids going. Dehydration is usually what they die from (due to dysentarry). |
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"Drank the Kool Aid"
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Location: Iowa, LA | barrelracr131 - 2014-01-14 7:46 AM
It's hit and miss.
Did the vet keep it? Make sure to keep the fluids going. Dehydration is usually what they die from (due to dysentarry).
I'm in my truck waiting for the vet because I don't want him to spread it if so. What do they treat with? |
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 Buttered Noodles Snacker
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Location: NC | Give fluids and Tramaflu. It is usually seen in puppies or adults with weak immune systems. Usually have bloody diarrhea too. and a distinct odor. VERY contagious! |
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"Drank the Kool Aid"
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Location: Iowa, LA | He is already sooo thin, this is not good! |
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"Drank the Kool Aid"
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Location: Iowa, LA | HorsesNHarleys - 2014-01-14 7:50 AM
Give fluids and Tramaflu. It is usually seen in puppies or adults with weak immune systems. Usually have bloody diarrhea too. and a distinct odor. VERY contagious!
No blood in puke that I can see. What does tamaflu do?? |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | It's viral, so if I remember correctly they mostly did fluids and monitoring in the hospital.
Maybe some antivirals? I don't remember much. It has been many years since I worked in a clinic (high school). I know it is highly contagious... wipe everything down with bleach and wash your hands before handling other animals.
The older dogs will have a much better chance than the puppies. Also since you caught it before the diarrhea, you can stay ahead of the dehydration much better. The vet should know what to do. Parvo is pretty common among strays and puppies. :) Good luck! |
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Location: Paradise , tx | It may have to do with how far along the parvo is. We got a 3 month old puppy from animal control. She wouldn't eat the first two days, took her to my vet, she was loaded with worms and had parvo. But she never was throwing up or had diarrhea but was still pretty sick. Left her at the vets for several days on IV and they took good care of her and she is now 3 years old and full of life.
Hope yours is ok. |
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Location: Southern OK aka God's Country | Parvo is HIGHLY contagious. It can live in the ground for years--you can literally walk across a yard where parvo has been and pick it up on your shoes and contaminate anywhere you go. Usually puppies are the most susceptible after they come off their mom's immunity, between 6-10 weeks old. We lost almost an entire litter of corgis to parvo, and it was absolutely heartbreaking to watch them die, one after the other, after injecting them constantly with fluids. Some of them fought it for days. Like someone else said, dehydration is what actually kills them, from constant vomiting and runny, bloody stool. Bleach is about the only thing that will take care of it on the ground. As far as this dog, it will probably cost you $2-600 to treat it, and he MAY have a 50/50 chance at living. If he's already in poor health, probably less than that. Sad situation. |
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 The BHW Book Worm
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| If u have other ddogs I would double check there vaxs and then throw out anything the dog has soild. Usually if a dog has Parvo there diarrhea can only be described as liquid death. If your not planning on keeping the dog Parvo can cost a lot to recover them from and it may be nicer to euthanize but if you love the poor pup go for it! |
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"Drank the Kool Aid"
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Location: Iowa, LA | He was eating yesterday but today would not even look at a treat. I did see diarrhea in my yard that I suspected was his the first day I took him to vet. We get so many dumped dogs where I live! I've rescued 3 already. He's also full of heart worms but such a sweetie...I hope he makes it. |
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Buttered Noodles Snacker
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Location: NC | annemarea - 2014-01-14 7:51 AM HorsesNHarleys - 2014-01-14 7:50 AM Give fluids and Tramaflu. It is usually seen in puppies or adults with weak immune systems. Usually have bloody diarrhea too. and a distinct odor. VERY contagious! No blood in puke that I can see. What does tamaflu do??
I may not be spelling it right. I believe it is the same thing they give humans when they have the flu. I just know when I was working in a vet hospital they started giving it to parvo dogs and began to see more successful recoveries. It is something they call in a prescription to a human pharmacy. Ditto to the bleach advice. Good luck. |
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"Drank the Kool Aid"
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Location: Iowa, LA | Well, the parvo test came back negative but she said he may still have it because she could barely get enough of a fecal sample to test. X-rays to look for a foreign object will be next if he doesn't improve. She's keeping him. |
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Location: South Georgia | I had a 10 week old jack russell puppy get it. I had only had him at home with me for 2 weeks. He had a fever of 106! Vet put him on fluids immediately and cared for him. He came out of it and is now 11 years old! (He tested negative as well. Vet said the parvo test often has false results). |
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 Toastest with the Mostest
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Location: That part of Texas | We had a lab puppy that got it from his litter mates/mom before we brought it home and we went through a two week ordeal saving him. He was never the same after he recovered -- it was like the fever had fried his brain. Once he got older, itwas like having an adult with a very severe case of ADHD and he was practically untrainable to do any basic command. He had no impulse control whatsoever and you had to constantly watch him so he wouldn't swallow or eat just anything that took his fancy -- rocks, cups, tools, tree limbs, etc. I lost him to a rattlesnake bite to the face and I'm sure if he had been normal, there would have been a good chance that it wouldn't have happened.
If I had to do it all again, I don't know if I would make the same choice. We "saved him" but at what cost? It's a gamble. I hope yours turns out with better results than ours did. It's definitely a tough call on what to do. |
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Cat Collector
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| Pitts are very sensitive already, mine throws up all the time when i am gone for long periods of time or if she gets into trouble. Not saying that its not parvo and that hes not sick but try cooking some lean hamburger beef, then rinse it with water and put it in cooked white rice, it helps calm their stomach. |
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Location: USA | He's a little old for parvovirus, but what about pancreatitis? Who knows what he was eating.
Did they do any bloodwork or maybe a fecal? |
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 Some Kind of Trouble
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| My puppy did not eat at all for two days before showing any other signs, as little loose stool, then vomit for a while before the bloody stools started... you would know that smell anywhere. I took her to the vet before the vomit started and they thought it was worms. By the time they started treating her for parvo it was too late.
Maybe if he's in that bad of shape already, it is worms or some other issue upsetting his system.. hopefully nothing too bad. Prayers, parvo sucks.  |
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"Drank the Kool Aid"
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Location: Iowa, LA | This boy just showed up last week and was super thin, so I asked my vet if she could help me place him. She did not want to see him go to a shelter, so she told me that if I would foster him then she would not charge me for vetting him. I agreed because he is very well behaved and gets along fine with my two dogs. I set him up a crate in the barn and he had already been into see the vet. He had his vaccinations and heartworm test. It came back positive, so the plan was to get some weight on him, then neuter him, then start the HW treatment after a few months of being on prevention. That was a week ago. He's been acting fine until yesterday before I left to go to work and saw him vomit. He still had an appetite so I didn't think much of it, but this morning I immediately checked on him when I got home. He had gone into the stall next to his crate and puked about 20 piles all over. I immediately brought him in to see the vet. She's keeping him for the day and going to update me. |
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  Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | is he on the pretreatment meds for heartworms? maybe its that. parvo they puke yellow acidy gunk and blody diarrehea
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