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Old 11-17-2004, 06:44 AM   #8
bettyeanne
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NO!! Poor baby! If it is early on ... perhaps there will be treatment for her. I have only had one experience with the Parvovirus. Several years my husband "rescued" a Golden Lab, named Buster. The dog was a thoroughbred and had been bought for a young man's girlfriend. The cute furry pup grew, they broke up and he was banished to a pen and very seldom saw anyone except for food/water [and I wonder if there were days when he didn't even get that!]. He was a year old when we discovered him and took him home ... then tried for about six days to get shot records, etc. We had talked to our vet and had planned to take him in on Saturday with or without the records. We had a huge fenced yard and when my husband went out early that morning found him lying still and he couldn't get up! We carried him to the car and rushed over to our vet ... and yes, he had Parvo! We were brokenhearted! Our vet told us the positives and negatives and that he would be willing to try to save him but not to be too encouraged. We visited him every day and the poor baby had IV's and still could barely hold his head up ... we just continued to encourage him and tell him how much we loved him. He recovered!! We were allowed to bring him home and for several weeks I would have to run home from my job several times a day and prepare him about 3-4 tablespoons of fresh, soft, bland food. The Parvo had eaten away his stomach lining and he couldn't tolerate anything else, but he absolutely thrived on his diet!! He was one of the most beautiful labs I have ever seen and his coat was unbelievable!
Our Yorkies are much smaller so I don't know if they can be treated the same but I am praying that they can! Was she not given her shots? I checked Toto's record and she was given five injections from 7 weeks to 21 weeks. Please keep us updated on little Button! We will keep her in our prayers!
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