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Yorkiemom1 · 02-03-2012, 07:08 PM

NOT EVERY PUPPY RESPONDS TO THIS DISEASE THE SAME WAY! This is a devastating disease, but puppies DO survive it, and do not "come home and get sick and die anyway"!! Parvo virus can have adverse effects on organs in the baby's body, but that is NOT written in stone that it will happen, or to what degree it happens. I kept three of the puppies that had parvo 8 years ago....2 little girls I kept just because they were so little to begin with,but it has allowed me to follow their health curve closely. They are 8 years old and have NEVER had any adverse effects from their bout with parvo. One of the males I kept, developed an issue with tear ducts....apparently, the virus has "shut down" the tear duct in his left eye, so I do eye care on him twice daily, for the rest of his life...they tried to jump start the tear duct gland with Restasis ((the active ingredient in Restasis will occasionally work, but it didnt on him),,,,and his last visit shows a Grade 1 heart murmur has developed. Vet says this is a direct effect of the parvo. I closely follow the other babies, and they have had NO residual health issues. For a trainer to be so brutally "honest", but also incorrect, with an owner that is facing the turmoil you are facing now, I personally find uncompassionate and not productive. She may be speaking strictly from personal experience she had with the disease, but what she told you is NOT EVIDENCE BASED~I would change trainers. JUST BE SURE LOUIE IS READY TO COME HOME....HE MUST BE EATING AND KEEPING IT DOWN, AT THE VERY LEAST. DO NOT LET THE VET DISCHARGE HIM WHILE HE IS STILL SICK....THAT IS WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO RUN INTO PROBLEMS WHEN YOU GET HIM HOME. I hope you have "sterilized" your home and have either gotten rid of EVERYTHING that sick baby touched, or sterilized it with bleach and hot water. Good luck and dont take what that trainer said as gospel....she is wrong. It is a very tough disease, very costly, and the babies are very sick from the disease....but it CAN and DOES work out, and your Louie can survive this. DO NOT feel you are torturing him by trying to save his life.

02-03-2012, 07:08 PM	#60
Yorkiemom1 Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas Posts: 9,462	NOT EVERY PUPPY RESPONDS TO THIS DISEASE THE SAME WAY! This is a devastating disease, but puppies DO survive it, and do not "come home and get sick and die anyway"!! Parvo virus can have adverse effects on organs in the baby's body, but that is NOT written in stone that it will happen, or to what degree it happens. I kept three of the puppies that had parvo 8 years ago....2 little girls I kept just because they were so little to begin with,but it has allowed me to follow their health curve closely. They are 8 years old and have NEVER had any adverse effects from their bout with parvo. One of the males I kept, developed an issue with tear ducts....apparently, the virus has "shut down" the tear duct in his left eye, so I do eye care on him twice daily, for the rest of his life...they tried to jump start the tear duct gland with Restasis ((the active ingredient in Restasis will occasionally work, but it didnt on him),,,,and his last visit shows a Grade 1 heart murmur has developed. Vet says this is a direct effect of the parvo. I closely follow the other babies, and they have had NO residual health issues. For a trainer to be so brutally "honest", but also incorrect, with an owner that is facing the turmoil you are facing now, I personally find uncompassionate and not productive. She may be speaking strictly from personal experience she had with the disease, but what she told you is NOT EVIDENCE BASED~I would change trainers. JUST BE SURE LOUIE IS READY TO COME HOME....HE MUST BE EATING AND KEEPING IT DOWN, AT THE VERY LEAST. DO NOT LET THE VET DISCHARGE HIM WHILE HE IS STILL SICK....THAT IS WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO RUN INTO PROBLEMS WHEN YOU GET HIM HOME. I hope you have "sterilized" your home and have either gotten rid of EVERYTHING that sick baby touched, or sterilized it with bleach and hot water. Good luck and dont take what that trainer said as gospel....she is wrong. It is a very tough disease, very costly, and the babies are very sick from the disease....but it CAN and DOES work out, and your Louie can survive this. DO NOT feel you are torturing him by trying to save his life.