Katie&Ryan
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Prayers and advice needed
Hi all,
Friday my wife and I picked up our 8 week old newf Luca (I know he's young, but i'm in the Army and could only get him then and didn't want to ship). He was fine and was a total goof-ball on Friday and early Saturday. Late Saturday he started to vomit clear fluids (looked like drool) then started to have diarrhea. After much contact with the breeder, we decided to go ahead and bring him home with us on Sunday. He wouldn't eat and continued to have diarrhea (but no blood in stool). Last night, he ate about a cup of food, and then threw it up two hours later...and all day today. We took him to the Vet around 11 this morning and they tested for parasites and worms...he had one coccidia and many protozoa. They gave him a shot for the diarrhea and then a bunch of different pills for the other stuff. We waited all afternoon for Luca to show some kind of improvement but he wouldn't event drink water and was very, very lethargic. We took him to another vet this evening (for a second opinion) and they gave him a parvo test. It came back within a minute as a "strong positive". He just had his parvo shot last week...could this cause the positive? Needless to say, we left him to get the parvo treatment and blood work done. We are so worried. The vet will give us the blood work results in the morning and we should have a better idea of how bad it is. He said that there is about an 80% survival rate with the treatment. Should we expect the worst? None of Luca's litter mates are sick and he doesn't have a fever. Our breeder hasn't had an episode of parvo in over 7 years, but she knows its a very serious issue and is supporting us as if Luca was still hers. He just won't eat or drink and has been upset for almost two days now. He lost almost two pounds since the night we picked him up. Please keep Luca in your prayers and we could use any advice you guys have. I'll post some pictures of him in the newfie photos tab. Thanks everyone.
Hi all,
Friday my wife and I picked up our 8 week old newf Luca (I know he's young, but i'm in the Army and could only get him then and didn't want to ship). He was fine and was a total goof-ball on Friday and early Saturday. Late Saturday he started to vomit clear fluids (looked like drool) then started to have diarrhea. After much contact with the breeder, we decided to go ahead and bring him home with us on Sunday. He wouldn't eat and continued to have diarrhea (but no blood in stool). Last night, he ate about a cup of food, and then threw it up two hours later...and all day today. We took him to the Vet around 11 this morning and they tested for parasites and worms...he had one coccidia and many protozoa. They gave him a shot for the diarrhea and then a bunch of different pills for the other stuff. We waited all afternoon for Luca to show some kind of improvement but he wouldn't event drink water and was very, very lethargic. We took him to another vet this evening (for a second opinion) and they gave him a parvo test. It came back within a minute as a "strong positive". He just had his parvo shot last week...could this cause the positive? Needless to say, we left him to get the parvo treatment and blood work done. We are so worried. The vet will give us the blood work results in the morning and we should have a better idea of how bad it is. He said that there is about an 80% survival rate with the treatment. Should we expect the worst? None of Luca's litter mates are sick and he doesn't have a fever. Our breeder hasn't had an episode of parvo in over 7 years, but she knows its a very serious issue and is supporting us as if Luca was still hers. He just won't eat or drink and has been upset for almost two days now. He lost almost two pounds since the night we picked him up. Please keep Luca in your prayers and we could use any advice you guys have. I'll post some pictures of him in the newfie photos tab. Thanks everyone.
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