How to prevent my dog from getting parvo?
by on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 | 11 Comments
Question by : How to prevent my dog from getting parvo?
So I hear all these stories of dogs getting parvo and dieing, and it really scares me.. How can I prevent my pup from getting that? He’s currently 6 months old.
thanks.
Ok that’s great 
My puppys shots are all up to date
thanks everyone!
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Answer by Maria0803
Get your dog vaccinated
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For the most part it is only irresponsible people whos dogs get parvo.
It is people who do not want to spend the money for a shot that will prevent the disease
or people who take puppies out in public areas who have not had the full series of vaccines.
At six months of age your puppy should long be past finishing its puppy vaccines and should be not be at risk for Parvo.
Parvo is completely preventable.
Take him to the vet and get him current on his shots. He also needs to be checked for worms, and he needs a rabies shot. If he is not on heartworm preventive, he needs to be heartworm checked and put on preventive or treated.
Make an appointment to have him neutered while you’re there.
Well first things first, take your dog to get vaccinated!
Secondly, try to stay away from local parks or other dogs at least until your dog has had his/her vaccinations!
The people on here with dogs with parvo have got their dogs from puppy mills. Don’t buy a dog from a pet shop and get your dog vaccinated and you won’t have to worry about parvo.
You get the vaccine. Also, if your dog ever gets sick, you take them to the vet.
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Vaccination! It’s preventable and easily so. Stay away from public places until your dog is fully vaccinated. Ring and book now!
If your dog is kept up to date on his shots, he shouldn’t get sick. Just keep doing the yearly checkup and he should be fine.
your puppy should have had his puppy shots. if your puppy at 6 months has not had his puppy shots he is at a very big risk as well as putting every dog he is around at risk. things like parvo virus can be in the grass for 7 or more months and you can’t see it. you can walk through it with your shoes, drive through it with your tires and bring it right home to puppy. things like kennel cough can be transmitted from dog to dog just by sniffing noses anywhere.
shots need to be between 2-4 weeks of each other otherwise you have wised your money and need to start over.
6 weeks 1st set of shots
8 weeks 2nd set of shots
12 weeks 3rd set of shots
between 4-6 months rabies. (required by law in the US. some county’s has a registration fee for tags. it is usually cheaper if the dog is fixed) the first rabies shot is a one year. after that you can get either a 3 year or one year. find out for your county how much the registration is, some counties its cheaper with a 3 year)
puppy shots are usually (all 3 sets are the same, like kids puppys get boosters) DA2PP (this has your parvo vaccine in it, sometimes refereed to as the 7 in 1 shot), bordatella, strongint and droncint which are two de-wormser.
some people who take their dogs to groomers are now being required to have a H3N8 flu vaccine which if you get this it needs one booster to the initial shot. however if you don’t go to a groomer who requires this I wouldn’t worry about it.
if you live anywhere that there are mosquito, which is just about everywhere but Maine and Alaska, you need to get your puppy on heartworm medicine. start him asap. heartworms is transmitted by mosquitos and it something to think about since it only takes one. if the puppy is on heartworm medicine before 6 months consistently, some vets will sell you the monthly meds without the blood test. the blood test (testing if the dog has heartworms) needs to be done once a year, even if the dog is on heartworm meds. mandated by the drug company. so if your dog is over 6 months you need to have the blood test first. if he was 5 months start him on heartworm meds, it has to do with the life cycle of the heartworms. anyway yeah hope that helps, ha I feel like I’m at work.
ps heartworm meds. your cheapest will usually be iverheart which covers heartworms and intestinal worms. it is the generic of heartguard. the only real difference is that heartguard is a favored chewy thing and iverheart is a pressed flavored pill. comfortis works the best on fleas, hands down.
even responsible dog owners can have a puppy with parvo virus. I got a shelter pup who had to be put down because of parvo. some areas of the country have more problems with it than others.
edit: with your yearly shots your dog will get a booster of the DA2PP shot.
Shots, YO!!!!!
Vet hospital=$ 35+ Feed stores$ 6.00
You’ve got to start his puppy vaccination right away. As a pup, he needs two shots. The parvo vaccine is included in a 5-way vaccine or a 7-way vaccine. These shots immunize against parvo and either 4 or 6 other diseases. Call the vet and ask how many shots he needs and how far apart. I know it’s two now, maybe 30 days apart, and then repeat once yearly after that.
I don’t think the vet charges much, because these are vaccines you can purchase at a feed store and give to the dog yourself.
Rabies is required by law, and can only be given by a licensed vet. Your dog needs one this year, a booster in exactly a year, and then it’s one shot every 2 or 3 years after that, depending on your State of residence.
Get going on this, Spring is coming, lots of dogs will be loose. You REALLY don’t want to risk parvo–once they get it, it worsens quickly and the dog suffers terribly.
I once adopted a Golden R. from the pound–they told me she probably had worms because her stomach was upset and it had diarrhea. It was over a 4th of July weekend, and we had another dog who was vaccinated. We totally fell in love with that dog–BIG time, and gave her SO much love the first 3 days. The 4th day, she just laid on the floor, had bloody diarrhea and yellow, foamy vomit and was getting sicker by the minute. Late that nite, I fibbed to the cops and told them I found a stray and it was sick–I couldn’t keep it around my other dog. They met me at the pound and we got it into a kennel there. The next day, the poundmaster put that dog to sleep early in the morning. He didn’t lie to us–but there had to be a reason when we took the dog, he told us to come back Monday and sign the adoption papers. We were supposed to pay a fee for the dog, and hadn’t done THAT, either. They knew that dog was sick. They all knew ME, but aside from risking our other dog’s health, that incident really broke our hearts. I’ve never “fallen for” a dog so quickly as I did that retriever, and it hurt to see her so sick.
You need to make sure your puppy gets his/her 3 immunisation shots which he should already have.
Once they recieve all 3 shots, then they will be immune to the Parvo virus. make sure you dont walk him or take him to dog parks etc until this is done as if he was to just smell some ground which is infected with the virus, there is no turning back. Your puppy can die as quick as 3 days.