So my Ex-Step mom (whom I still call mom) got a new puppy and was having trouble potty training it. Enter Super Julie (not-unlike Super Grover) to save the carpets!! I offered to take her home for a couple weeks to get the training under control. Here are a few pics of her so you can understand just how cute she is!!
Here she is in her crate just waiting for her potty time.
Outside on a potty break!
Yay!! Another potty break!
I brought her to my house on Wednesday afternoon. So she was doing so great with the crate training. However, on Wednesday night she vomited all her food that she had eaten that day. Now I have been around dogs all my life and know that it is not necessarily an emergency if a puppy vomits. Wednesday evening she wouldn't eat any dinner- also not an alarm since she went from a 2 dog household to a 4 dog household and from free feeding to a set schedule. She still wouldn't eat on Thursday morning when we fed all the other dogs and stopped taking treats for successful pottying outside. Mid Thursday she developed diarrhea and I was concerned, but still not hyper-alert. Puppies always have issues especially when environments and schedules change. Thursday night she still didn't eat and continued her vomiting and diarrhea. Now I was was officially worried but decided that I would wait to see if she would eat on Friday morning. No such luck. That is when I noticed that she also had blood in her diarrhea. I immediately called my mom and told her the news. I then called the vet and told them the symptoms. The informed me that it sounded like Parvo, but not to worry yet because it could be any number of things. YIKES!!!! So I took her into the vet and they admitted her into an isolation room, stuck a Q-Tip in her behind and then tested her for Parvo.
The test came up more than positive. florescent blue is what the vet tech said. She definitely has Parvo. I started to cry. She is such a cute puppy. Parvo is very close to deadly in puppies under 5 months old and Sasha is only 3.5 months. So without getting in to what Parvo is and how it attacks the pups body I will say that it is extremely painful for the puppy and that vaccination is the best way to prevent this terrible virus from getting your pup. Sasha is currently at my mom's home getting sub-cutaneous re-hydration along with the anti-biotic every 12 hours and an anti-vomit med every 24 hours. My mom says that while she hasn't eaten anything yet she remains in semi-good spirits and my mom is hopeful that she will pull through. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. And PLEASE vaccinate your puppies so that they don't have to suffer through this incredibly painful and highly deadly virus.
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