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Originally Posted by SoCalyorkiLvr Yes, they did it because they knew their kennel could be infected. ALL kennels have the potential to be infected . It is having forethought and taking preventive measures to treat every puppy when they are placed under the stress of moving to a new home that causes some responsible breeders to include this medication in their puppy care packages and instructions
Interview a few vets and they will tell you just how common this malady is in the first few days and weeks of a puppy going to it's new home. It is not something breeders can prevent 100%. They can only do their best!
To criticize breeders for taking this preventive measure is short sighted in my opinion. |
Kim- These are puppy brokers we're talking about, you've said/ posted on several occassions that you got Buddah from a broker. I would imagine that coccidia is common in their kennels and would have a higher potential of being infected since these dogs are coming from different breeders that have different breeding practices.
If this is appearing in the "first few days or weeks" of the pup going to its new home, then the puppy had it when they came to their new home. It takes weeks for a dog to show any symptoms! This is medical fact, not "my opinion."
As far as including ALBON as preventative... maybe. Prevention, in my mind would be to have a clean kennel so that my dogs didnt have parasites. One of the primary causes of coccidia in puppies is that its passed from the mother to the litter, so its quite likely that is the case.
Thank you for the advice regarding interviewing vets.... I do that already Kim, but thanks for the tip. I can only speak from my experience, but I know for a fact that my breeder has never even sent a puppy home with fleas, muchless coccidia or anything else.
As far as breeders doing their best to prevent it... neither of us know the difficulty in doing this since we have never whleped a litter. It would appear that a lot of breeders are preventing it bc we'd read a lot more about it on here if it were
that common.
You call me "short-sighted", I call myself discerning. I feel that an ounce of prevention in the beginning is would a pound of hearthache down the road. You are entitled to your opinion and I am entitled to mine. I said that I would NEVER buy from someone that thought it was necessary to include ALBON bc it would tell me that coccidia is frequent and normal... it obvioulsy happens a lot for them to take the time to include it. I didnt criticize the breeders, I just said I would NEVER get a dog from them!