Hello Everyone

My name is Joe. One of the reasons I joined this forum is to provide information on dog related topics. I have some information that could benefit everyone who has a cat or a dog. This information I have is about a dog.

A friend of mine found a stray labrador. THe dog had been on the streets for several days. They they tried to find the owner but were not successful so they took the dog in. They figured the dog was 8-10 months old. He looked incredibly healthy but that soon changed. They noticed the dog was laying around, started throwing up and had diarreha, so they took the dog to the vet. They found out the dog had contracted parvo.

The dog was hospitalized immediately. The vet said most dogs at this age do not survive parvo. In a twist of fate, a lost dog poster was found in the neighborhood looking for a lost lab. Guess who had the lost Lab? My friend!

My friend contacted the family immeidately and advised them of the situation. Apparently, the dog was actually about a year old and was scheduled to receive its booster shots. He ran away prior to his vet visit. This Lab survived the parvo infection. MOst dogs don't survive it. The vet said the dogs immune system is what prevented him from dying and he was able to fight his way back.

The vet was astonished and they found out the Lab had been taking a pet vitamin/supplement. The pet vitamin was NUVET PLUS. As a dog owner, I wanted to know where to get this vitamin because if it could boost a dog's immune system enough to fight off a paarvo infection, this vitamin must be an incredibe product. I asked the owner where they got it. In my research I found out that over 20,000 breeders use this NUVET PLUS exclusively. the owner told me where to get the vitamins. You can't buy them in any store or vet's office.
I have seen what this pet vitamin did. I will be keeping him on Nuvet the rest of his life and I hope you dog lovers out there realise how this vitain can raise the dogs or cats quality of life. I AM a believer!

Thanks

Joe

[dee]

There is HOPE!!!

I am just writing to let you all know that I have been in your shoes and want you to know that there is hope if you puppy/dog gets Parvo Disease.
I came home from work on a Thursday and Smokie was just not as excited as she normally gets, which I knew was strange, I noticed that she hadn't ate anything that day and that she hadn't been drinking a lot within the last few days. We just figured she had some sort of cold/flu. Was very sluggish they next couple of days and by Saturday, I had something to do so I asked my mom if she wouldn’t mind watching Smokie for us, when I went to pick her up, my mom informed me right away that she thinks that Smokie has Parvo disease, she is showing all the signs except diarrhea. So we found a 24 hour vet and I immediately took her in. I was scared and crying like a baby. I had no idea and just kept thinking OMG is it my fault, how did I not know? Thank god my mom was with me, I was a wreck. We took Smokie into a room, they asked a few questions, everyone kept assuming that she hadn't got her shots and I had to keep informing them that she had. They weighed her, got out what looked like a extremely long Q-tip and placed it up her rear-end. She said that her poop looked like a strange color. It only took about 10 minutes before the Vet came in and said she was positive for Parvo. I was so sad, had no idea, what to expect and couldn’t imagine how my dog was feeling. They gave me two estimates, one for keeping her there (for 12-24 hours) which was about $1,000 give or take and the other was for $365.00 and they would give her the fluids and vitamins that she was lacking through shots. And would give me the necessary antibiotics for about 10 days or so and a list of things to do. (We received Amoxicillin and Kepectate and two syringes. One Huge and one little. Also recommended water or pedialite to give to her every two hours around the clock.)
After long debates, we decided that what was best for us financially would be to take the chance and do it at home. At least there I knew she would get the TLC that she needed around the clock. And if something happened to her, I know its selfish but I wanted her with me!
Long behold, we had NO IDEA what we were in for.
This was still Saturday night, we took her home. The diarrhea began along with the continual vomiting. We were giving her everything she needed. Her butt was constantly wet and soaked from the bloody diarrhea(we did everything we could to try and keep it dry and clean but its hard!), she hated taking the pedialite by syringe, she fought us tooth and nail but we had to keep her hydrated. We had to feed her baby food until she started holding it down. By Monday, she was the same, she would show good signs and then show bad signs. We have been told constantly that this is so up and down and it really is. My fiancé luckily had a night shift and got back in time for me to go to work on Monday morning. We realized that this wasn’t going to happen overnight and decided that one of us was going to have to stay home for the next few days. On Monday at work I got online and started reading everything I could about Parvo. I cam across a website and read about how they saved puppies from Parvo with something called Parvaid. I called the local store, they had it, I was on my way at lunch to get it. I also purchased Vibactra Plus Both about $50 a bottle, took them home and had my fiancé start the medicine. By Wed we had started to get really positive and think she was doing well when on Friday night, she started shaking and we weren't sure that was a good sign, we called the vet, they said it sounded like she was nearing the end of the Parvo and that it sounded like we were doing everything right. To keep with it. So we did. By Friday and over the weekend, She was eating on her own and drinking, NO Joke, she is back to her old self, playing, BARKING! lol I never knew how much I could miss that bark!
We are all dog lovers and you are obviously looking for help, stay positive and keep your head up! Don’t say negative things in front of them or even out loud, it does no good to anyone! Believe me!
I hope this helps because getting online and reading everyone stories helped us to have hope and to have an idea of what's next.

[Lara's mom]

Is this vitamin available from vets offices?