Lost my pup to parvo :(

bramble1

So sorry to hear of your loss... the name of the place sounds familar...is it berkshire and up some stairs in a garden centre? If so i know where it is and i think the place is terrible! different puppies every week, and they sell breeds like border collies who shouldn't go to any old home.

Abbafan1972

OP - I'm so sorry to hear about Evie. Losing a pet after just a few days is just as hard as losing a pet after a few years.

We lost our cat Cindy in August 2008 after she'd been in our family for about 15 years and I still think about her.

I hope you manage to get some recompense from these people. Make sure you keep all the paperwork you were given from the garden centre and get a report from the vets.

I don't know much about these type of cases, but trading standards sounds like the route to go down.

Keep us updated.

Aputsiaq

magickid wrote: »

Evie showed signs of Parvo (although we didn't know that at the time) within 24 hours of coming to her new home, so no, she couldn't have caught it the day she came home. The virus has an incubation period of 5-7 days, therefore she has the virus before we bought her.

Absolutely disagree.
Parvo virus normally has an incubation period of 3-7 days in adult dogs. Puppies can and do develop symptoms almost immediately.

pupsy

Aputsiaq wrote: »

Absolutely disagree.
Parvo virus normally has an incubation period of 3-7 days in adult dogs. Puppies can and do develop symptoms almost immediately.

The parvo virus reaches the intestinal tract around day three, and the full array of symptoms may appear within five to seven days after infection.

It is not unusual for pet shops to sell infected puppies because they do not keep them in store long enough for the infection to show clinical signs. Magick has a very good case and a vet report to back it up.

buddywitch

Im so sorry to hear you have lost your little girl.

Equaliser123

buddywitch wrote: »

Im so sorry to hear you have lost your little girl.

To be fair, it is a puppy. Not a girl.

sarabe

Puppies are either boys or girls - and they are little.

Equaliser123

sarabe wrote: »

Puppies are either boys or girls - and they are little.

Well I guess technically male or female rather than boys or girls (which are human), but I see the point.

foreign_correspondent

Equaliser123 wrote: »

Well I guess technically male or female rather than boys or girls (which are human), but I see the point.

It is just a turn of phrase, and besides, the swear filter on here doesnt let use use the correct terminology - which is a word lots of people don't like anyway - so in lieu of the word b1tch many people use 'girl' as a descriptor!

hethmar

Aputsiaq wrote: »

And that is incorrect too. One puppy in a littler can get parvo whilst all the others are fine.
One can recover, another might die.

Parvo virus can live for up to 2 years and can be brought into the house from the bottom of your shoes and passed onto pup. It could easily have caught the virus the day it was taken to its new home.

They have no proof whatsoever that the Pup was infected when they bought it from that shop and a newspaper would not print the story based on assumptions either.

By the way OP, you have named the shop in your post......not a good idea being libellous on MSE!

Im not sure why you are taking such an aggressive stance over this matter?

The puppy was obviously infected before the OP took her home.

How many litters of puppies have you seen with parvo - are you a breeder by any chance?