Parvo Treatment At Home – The Advantages And Disadvantages
So, let’s look at a few different factors, so that you can decide for yourself.
How Much Will It 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.
On the other hand, if you administer Parvo treatment to your dog in the comfort of your own home, using products such as Life Cell Immune Support, Doggie Pain Relief, Parvaid and Vibactra Plus, then you will be able to treat at least one dog, and maybe more (depending on their weight) for about $275 USD, and that’s including FedEx Priority Overnight shipping (anything else is nowhere near fast enough, so please don’t be tempted by offers of free shipping on some websites – this free shipping is usually US Postal Service Priority Mail, but your dog can be dead by the time your package arrives if you use this type of service).
Survival Rate
Most vets give dog owners a 50:50 chance of their dog successfully overcoming the Parvo virus, with the worst we’ve heard being a 33% chance, and the highest an 80% chance.
Alternatively, if you treat your Parvo puppy at home using all of the products in the Parvo Gold Treatment Kit, then the survival rate is 90%, on average.
This is partly because treating your dog at home, yourself, is less stressful for both you and your dog, and reduced stress equals a better chance of your dog surviving this dreadful virus.
24 x 7 support, and the unique Parvo vPETS service (constant updates by phone every four to five hours during the first two days of full treatment – this does include ALL hours of the day, nights, weekends, holidays, etc. since the Canine Parvovirus doesn’t take a break or mount its attack to suit your schedule) if you can find anybody offering it, can also increase your dog’s chance of beating Parvo, but you certainly won’t come across many vets offering this.
Care
If you take your dog to the vet’s and they want to keep him there, then it is very likely that nobody will be in attendance over night, so your dog could be all alone, or with other sick dogs, from when they close in the evening until they open again in the morning.
However, if you carry out the Parvo treatment at home, then you will be there, with your dog, all day long.
Remember, dogs, just like many other animals, are extremely receptive to emotions (or “vibes”, as they’re often known), and being surrounded by people who truly love and care for them will help in their recovery.
Effort Required
If you have the money and you accept the fairly low survival rates offered by animal hospitals, then you can basically drop your dog off there and collect him again, assuming that he survives, in a few days’ time.
If you take the home Parvo treatment route, on the other hand, then you do need to be prepared for some nights without sleep, because one of the products, Parvaid, needs to be given 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 vital part of treating your dog at home, and the rewards, when you see your sick and almost unrecognizable doggie survive this often fatal virus, more than compensate for 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 and arguably only way to be prepared is to have a Parvo Gold Treatment Kit on hand at all times – that way, if your dog should be infected by the Parvo virus, you’ll be able to start treatment at once, even if it’s 3:00am on a Sunday morning, when you’ll probably not find an animal hospital open.