 New puppy in a yard that had parvo 8 months ago
#214169 - 10/31/2008 12:53 PM |
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To make a long story short. I sold a puppy to a lady, two months later the puppy and her other dog got parvo and died. Now the woman is buying another puppy from me (8 months later.) She has sprayed her rock yard down with bleach solution several times.
My question is, at what age do I send another puppy to her home? I told her to ask the vet that treated her sick puppy when would be a good time. Right now we are thinking vaccinate the puppy (at my home) at 8 weeks and 11 weeks and have her take the puppy home at 12 weeks.
I know a lot of you are not vaccinaters and are raw feeders but she is not and I am not right now, although I am doing research on it.
Does anyone have experience with this? I am referring her to her vet, since he is the one who treated her sick puppy and he is the one who will be the puppies vet. But I need to ask mine as well.
Any thoughts?
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Re: New puppy in a yard that had parvo 8 months ago
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#214177 - 10/31/2008 01:22 PM |
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hi Vanessa,
here is 2 cents... : }
here in my area of NM, parvo is BAD. it has now mutated to a CAT version & is just as deadly in cats. SO SCARY. *here*---not vaccinating is simply not a safe option.
i am told that parvo can live in the ground for 6 months or more. bleach does kill the virus. i would want that lady to SATURATE her whole rock yard area, and also clean all her floors w/it too, as well as ANY other surface puppy contacted. also any shoes she wore around pupp#1--those have to be disinfected as well (bottoms too).
you might want to get 2 vaccinations in the puppy & then pull a titer to be sure he is covered before you send him.
also, why did #1 get parvo to begin with?
goodluck.
jen
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Re: New puppy in a yard that had parvo 8 months ago
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#214186 - 10/31/2008 01:56 PM |
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Good idea with the titer, I didn't think about that. I guess her adult dog brought it home and got sick first, then a few days later (not sure how many) the puppy got sick. When her adult dog got sick she knew it was only a matter of time for the puppy. I think the puppy had two rounds of shots in him, I think she was behind on the vaccination schedule.
She lives about an hour and a half from me so I'm not sure about her area of town or what it's like. I know in some parts of the valley they were putting up notifications saying that parvo was going around. THANK GOD it didn't get to me. I guess it was a really bad strand.
We have indian reservations around the valley where they do not take care of their dogs AT ALL and I'm ASSUMING that's got to add to the parvo problem. Plus we have a lot of coyotes, that even run around neighborhoods, not sure if they can contract it but I would think so.
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Re: New puppy in a yard that had parvo 8 months ago
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#214187 - 10/31/2008 01:57 PM |
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Her adult dog was fully vaccinated and she still got it, so it must have been really really bad, the adult dog lived but the puppy died. And I guess the adult dog's health never full recovered, she's just "weaker" than she used to be. She was using the adult dog to breed, but had her spayed because she said she's not the same.
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Re: New puppy in a yard that had parvo 8 months ago
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#214236 - 10/31/2008 07:50 PM |
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I work in a vet clinic in south texas and we've recently seen a four year old chihuahua with parvo. (not kidding.)it was vaccinated according to schedule when it was a puppy but no parvo booster since.
There we discovered a new strain of parvo attacking these dogs and most vaccines did not contain an agent that would help the dogs become more immune to the virus. This was pretty scary.
The clinic is now carrying the vaccine that would be more helpful in preventing this virus, only time will tell to see if this would help.
check out http://www.avma.org/animal_health/canine_parvovirus_faq.asp
for more info.
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Re: New puppy in a yard that had parvo 8 months ago
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#214243 - 10/31/2008 09:30 PM |
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The quick answer is that parvo according to my vet can live for years in some soil and enviroments. I've been told scorching the earth itself will kill parvo better than bleach but odds are the entire yard is infected.
While I know some people here would disagree I would suggest waiting at least 10 days after the last puppy series shot if you are committed to selling to this buyer. I personally would likely refuse until spring next year. I put alot into my puppies and it would break my soul to send one off knowing it'd likely get a serious strain of parvo within weeks.
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Re: New puppy in a yard that had parvo 8 months ago
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#214313 - 11/01/2008 10:38 PM |
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Anymore breeders that can chip in?
This is a very interesting, real life scenerio. This could be a very educational thread, IMO.
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Re: New puppy in a yard that had parvo 8 months ago
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#215825 - 11/12/2008 01:12 PM |
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I talked to my vet, he said that parvo really needs a host to survive and he recommended a titer after the entire puppy series to make sure that puppy is immune. But there are still no guarantees. Puppies get sick who've been fully vaccinated.
The lady said that she has brought a new puppy home since the parvo incident and puppy is fine......I think I'm going to ask her to pay for the titer (since it's her issue) and write it into the purchase agreement that I'm not going to guarantee the dog against parvo and that she is aware of the risk. She spent a few thousand dollars in the ER with her dogs that parvo last year so I'm sure she doesn't want to do that again too.
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Re: New puppy in a yard that had parvo 8 months ago
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#215828 - 11/12/2008 01:16 PM |
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I talked to my vet, he said that parvo really needs a host to survive
That one scares me. It is quite the opposite of everything I have heard... 
and he recommended a titer after the entire puppy series to make sure that puppy is immune. But there are still no guarantees. Puppies get sick who've been fully vaccinated.
But this, I think, is great advice! 
Jessica
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Re: New puppy in a yard that had parvo 8 months ago
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#215837 - 11/12/2008 01:51 PM |
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Yeah, I don't know. This vet is really good and I pay A LOT of money to see him..... I just pray it won't be a problem!
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