Lost my pup to parvo :(

CFC

Do as Mutter and Equaliser suggest. Go down the SOG route and then once you have reclaimed your money, create a stink.

And personally, I know that for political reasons and financial reasons one shouldn't buy a pooch from a petshop, but hell, I even rescue abandoned plants from garden centres. I couldn't walk past a sad looking puppy.

And guess what? If you self righteous posters who say OP shouldn't have bought Evie think you could, you're either morally bankrupt or far more politically motivated than most normal people. Plus stoney hearted. And did I mention self righteous?

CFC

Do as Mutter and Equaliser suggest. Go down the SOG route and then once you have reclaimed your money, create a stink.

And personally, I know that for political reasons and financial reasons one shouldn't buy a pooch from a petshop, but hell, I even rescue abandoned plants from garden centres. I couldn't walk past a sad looking puppy.

And guess what? If you self righteous posters who say OP shouldn't have bought Evie think you could, you're either morally bankrupt or far more politically motivated than most normal people. Plus stoney hearted. And did I mention self righteous?

tankgirl1

I haven't read all the replies, but have just checked the closest veterinary nursing textbook I have to hand (The Complete Textbook of Veterinary Nursing, edited by Victoria Aspinall, ISBN978-0-7506-8847-5), and on p420 it states the incubation period for parvovirus as 4-7 days....
You had your poor lil pup just 48hrs, so according to my book, she was infected before she came to you.

You need to speak to your vets about this.

magickid

Thank you to everyone for your thoughts, advice and condolocences. We are still very much grieving our Evie. We will be taking on board every piece of advice we have received on here and making the decision which we feel is right for us.

A special thank you to Equaliser for the extra time and trouble you have gone to for us. We really appreciate it.

We are getting her ashes back today and will be saying goodbye to her.

Whatever we did, rightly or wrongly, we did it with the best intentions and I do not regret it for a minute. We loved her.

Equaliser123

magickid wrote: »

Thank you to everyone for your thoughts, advice and condolocences. We are still very much grieving our Evie. We will be taking on board every piece of advice we have received on here and making the decision which we feel is right for us.

A special thank you to Equaliser for the extra time and trouble you have gone to for us. We really appreciate it.

We are getting her ashes back today and will be saying goodbye to her.

Whatever we did, rightly or wrongly, we did it with the best intentions and I do not regret it for a minute. We loved her.

You are very welcome. And I mean what I said - I am very happy to help out in any way I can.

ali-t

Equaliser123 wrote: »

Yep, that really helps. OP has already said why he/she bought the dog. Really impressed with how you like to rub salt in the wound.

My post was not made with the purpose of rubbing salt in the wound as you have described. It was to illustrate that puppy farms thrive on people feeling sorry for the dogs that are churned out by them. Buying from these places is no more helping stop the problem as buying clothes from a place that uses sweat shops is helping to stop famine and poverty abroad.

You are as entitled to your views as I am to mine but I feel the term rescue is bandied about far too much when people are buying pets from inappropriate places.

foreign_correspondent

Whatever the intentions or motivations of people buying pups from these places - and I guess that they are all well intentioned, and many people may take a pup home prescisely because they feel sorry for it - the fact is that by doing so you actually pay these people to carry on what they are doing and ensure the continuation of this trade.

You can be sure some 'new stock' will be in the shop to replace Evie... and that someone will go in, see them, feel sorry for one, pay for it and take it home... and the cycle goes on and on.

The bottom line it, if we want this to stop (as I am sure the OP does) the best thing that can be done is to discourage people from handing over their money to these people. Consumer power is the key here - for example, people used to aspire to owning a fur coat, till awareness was raised, and they became largely unsellable.. likewise, battery eggs are being phased out in the UK, as consumers moved towards buying barn and free range...

The bottom line is, it is a business, and if no one bought from these places, this trade would not exist.

OP- I hope you can recoup your costs, and I am sorry about what happened with little Evie - I wish selling dogs in pet shops was illegal.

hethmar

Hillside animal sanctuary in norfolk have long been involved in "under cover work" concerning battery farming, cruelty in farming and recently puppy farming.

They found that a large number of people selling puppies from their homes, as supposedly bred by them, were actually just buying a stock lot of pups from puppy farmers and then selling them under false pretences.

God knows how they sleep at night.

Froglet

Hillside is a wondeful place.As a vegetarian i fully support all they do to open people's eyes on these matters.

They sleep at night,hethmar, because they don't have a caring bone in their bodies,or a conscience.Whereas those of us who DO care,a lot,are the ones who don't sleep for worrying and being upset at the cruelty towards all the helpless creatures we share our world with that have to endure immense suffering.

MyRubyRed

mum2one wrote: »

In the nicest of ways - u sum what the site means to me, complete strangers going out of their way to help. Your truly one in a million xx

Agreed also xxxxx