K9 Journal

Rae and Mark October 21st, 2008

Home Parvo treatment for your dog is a realistic option, compared to the traditional approach of having your dog treated at the animal hospital, even though many people will tell you that this is foolish.

If you’re not convinced, then here are a few facts to consider to help you make up your mind.

Cost

If you have your Parvo dog treated at the vet’s, it will probably cost you anywhere from $500 USD to over $10,000 USD per dog.

If you treat your dog in the comfort of your own home, using products such as Vibactra Plus, Life Cell Immune Support, Doggie Pain Relief and Parvaid, then you will be able to treat one or more dogs (depending on their weight) for about $275 USD, and that’s including FedEx Priority Overnight shipping (any other shipping method is just too slow, so don’t be taken in by offers of free shipping by some vendors - this free shipping is more often than not US Postal Service Priority Mail, but if you wait for that, your dog can be dead by the time your package arrives).

Success Rate

Most animal hospitals will give dog owners a 50:50 chance of their dog surviving Parvo, with the worst we’ve come across being a 33% chance, and the best a four out of five chance.

On the other hand, if you administer Parvo treatment to your puppy at home using the four products in the Parvo Gold Treatment Kit, then the success rate is 90%, on average.

Part of this increased success rate is because treating your dog at home, yourself, is much less stressful for both you and your dog, and less stress results in a better chance of your dog surviving this horrific virus.

24 x 7 support, and the unequalled Parvo vPETS service (constant phone contact every 4-5 hours or so during the first couple of days of full treatment - this does include hourly treatment, throughout the night as well, since Parvo doesn’t take a break or mount an attack to suit your schedule) if you can find anybody offering it, can also increase your dog’s chance of overcoming Parvo, but you won’t come across many vets offering this.

Care

If you leave your dog at the vet’s, then it is highly likely that there will be nobody in attendance during the night, so your dog may well be all alone, or possibly with other sick dogs, for 12 hours or more.

However, if you carry out the Parvo treatment at home, then you will be there, with him, all day long.

Remember, dogs are very receptive to emotions (or “vibes”, as they’re often known), and having people around who truly love and care for them will help in their recovery.

Effort Required

If money is no object and you accept the fairly low survival rates offered by animal hospitals, then you can basically drop your dog off there and pick him up again, if he survives, in a few days’ time.

If you opt for home Parvo treatment, on the other hand, then you do need to be prepared for a few sleepless nights, as one of the products, Parvaid, needs to be administered every single hour (and that does mean both day and night) during the first two days of the four-day course of treatment.

Summary

If you look at the two most important factors when choosing how to treat your Parvo puppy - cost and survival rate - then taking the home Parvo treatment option is clearly better on both counts.

There is one downside to administering the home Parvo treatment, and that is the time and effort it will take, but this is a necessary part of home Parvo treatment, and the rewards, when you see your practically terminally-ill and almost unrecognizable puppy survive this frequently fatal virus, far outweigh the disadvantage of a few nights without sleep.

You may think that vaccinations are the way to stop your dog getting Parvo, but there are a huge number of problems with administering shots to your dog (which is a whole other story), so the best way to be prepared is to make sure you have a Parvo Gold Treatment Kit on your shelf at all times - that way, if your dog should be infected by the Parvo virus, you’ll be able to begin treatment without delay, even if it’s 3:00am on a Sunday morning, when you’ll almost certainly struggle to find an animal hospital open.

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