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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  
This is just me....and I am a crazy, over the top breeder.....and I have already HAD parvo brought in to my home on a puppy visitors shoes and it almost wiped me completely out!! That was close to 8 years ago....and I stopped allowing people onto my property to visit with their babies until those babies have 2 vaccinations in them...and then it is like being a member of a hazmat unit...shoe covers, hand sanitizer, walking across rugs that have been sprayed with Virkon prior to the shoe covers, and the foyer is as far as anyone is allowed to enter. It is just not worth it for me to risk EVER AGAIN, the lives of my babies and even loosing my business....the most expensive babies I have ever sold, combined together, does not come close to what it cost me to save the litter of puppies that came down with parvo, as well as throw out every single item those babies had come in contact with, have my home and yard treated and "sterilized"....plus then not breeding for almost 2 years just to be certain that any trace of that horrific disease was totally obliterated from my property. And remember, if YOU are allowed there to handle and walk around her property/home, so is anyone else....and she really does not know for sure where any of you have been or walked or handled...she is taking each persons word for it. And you KNOW parvo virus lives on surfaces and is quite capable of transfer for a LOT LONGER than the 6 weeks you have been away from unvaccinated dogs.....and may have picked up the virus working around parvo infested dogs! |
That is positively horrific and heartbreaking, I could only imagine! Well I left a message for my breeder to discuss it with her. If I go I have decided that I will not handle the puppy. I do know that Parvo lasts longer on surfaces, we are very careful at our facility. We wear scrubs that do not leave the facility and are washed daily and I wear shoes there that stay in the trunk of my car and do not enter my home along with sanitizing everything often. However, we can never be too careful. But you have a very very good point about other people not being honest or careful. I very much appreciate your reply... and actually I have multiple infection suits , and I could even wear shoe covers going there over my socks, but with them being so young it still seems too much to risk.