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Originally Posted by WannaBe  I'm new here and I feel for your loss. But, you had a puppy with parvo. If you bring that new puppy in your house before it is fully immune, it will have a huge chance of getting parvo. Reading up on the internet, it says a puppy is not fully immune until the last set of shots, somewhere around 16 to 18 weeks. Can you ask the breeder to hold her for you till she has the 3rd round? It would be horrible if this pup gets parvo too. I know you said she didn't touch much, but parvo is also carried on your feet and anything else you touched, it is also very hard to kill the virus. Ask your vet, ask the breeder, get all the info before you bring your sweet puppy home. |
This is how it worked the night we got her: The lady that we got her from said she was shy, and we believed her. She was held in the car (we've bleached our clothes, too) and then we brought her into our home. She laid on my chest until she started acting like she was going to throw up. We got a puppy pad out and she threw up on that. Later, she kept moving around on me, so I put her on the puppy pad again and she pooped and peed. We got that up right away, and at the time we just washed our hands (we didn't know she had parvo yet). Then we went to bed. It was in the middle of the night that I realized it wasn't just an upset tummy from getting shots, it was most likely parvo. She was sleeping in a little carrier that I put up on the dresser by my bed (because I wanted her to be able to see me). We've thrown that carrier away, plus the sheet that I had inside of it to make it softer. My daughter held her as I got dressed to take Lola to the vet, and she held her again in the car.
And of course, Lola never got to come back home with us. Really, that's all that she came into contact with. We've thrown everything away, or bleached it (like our clothes, I didn't want to throw those away.) We have other dogs here and they're fine, I really don't think there's any parvo left in this house. She was so sick, didn't move on her own, and only got placed where we put her (which was mainly on my chest because I knew she felt bad)
But thank you for your feedback! I do believe our house is parvo-free, but I will speak to the vet before I bring her home just to be safe!
