Shot at 2007-07-18
My Aunt raises weinner dogs, she had 2 puppies 6 weeks old she was giving away. She gave my oldest daughter the boy puppy. Well, that night my aunt called to inform me that her 5 month old puppy was bad sick vomiting. She ask how our puppy was doing, I told her he was acting depressed, just lying around. I ask her how the sister to my pup was doing, she said she was doing fine. I told her I would keep a check to see how much he was eating and drinking. The next morning she took her 5 month old puppy to the vet and found out it had parvovirus. the vet gave her antibiotics and told her to keep forcing him to drink gatorade. I told her to call the vet back to inform him about the two 6 weeks old puppies and ask him if he would give them some antibiotics. She did and went back to pick two bottles of antibiotics. Well in the meantime I had my puppy in a kennel by himself he was drinking water on his own but he would not eat any food. He had very loose bowl movements with a very foul oder. I got on the internet searching for home remedies for the parvovirus. I came across several forums saying bleach is the most effective way of killing the parvovirus. They advised to get 1 quart of gatorade and mix 1/2 a teaspoon of bleach in it and force the puppy to drink it. I tried this with my puppy plus the antibiotics, within 2 days later he was up running around playing. Thats why I named him spirit.
