Just wanted to send a few positive thoughts and hugs your way. I'm so sorry theat Layla is so sick, but you got her to the vet quickly and she is in good hands. I know you must be so distraught, but do take care of yourself so you are ready for sweet Layla's return from the vet.

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She'll recover and you'll set up a payment plan at the vet. Everything will be fine. It's a good thing you took her in when you did. The kind of distress she was showing by pacing and crying probably meant she was in a bad place. I'm sorry I didn't see this last night or I would have hastened you to the vet. When you combine repeated vomiting of clear liquid combined and the agitation she was showing, it's a sign that something is seriously wrong.

After you get the bleach, sit down and make a repayment budget for the vet bill. Once you're done repaying, keep taking that same amount out of your budget every month and set it aside for future bills.

It sounds like they have it under control at the vet, which is great news. Keep us posted.

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Sending pawsitive thoughts and puppy dog hugs to Layla!!! At least she is in good hands with the vet......

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Oh my gosh, I am SO SORRY! Poor Layla...

I know how you feel. I am a student too and Vito fell very ill my 2nd day of classes. It is so distressing. How awesome of your vet to take payments. Not many do that anymore.

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You got her to the vet really early in her infection and treatment is highly successful! Layla will be back to normal in a week or two and never look back. You did exactly the right thing getting to the vet so fast! By acting so quickly you made sure she will be fine.

Keep us posted, deep breath, you did good for your baby.

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thank you all for the support. it really means the world right now.

i just got off the phone with her vet. the woman who answered went back to check up on her and said she's stable and alright. nothing has really changed for the better but most importantly nothing has gotten worse.

i'm probably going to go visit her tonight around 8PM when the same staff i saw last night is in if i can hold it together. it's so hard to look at her.

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Just checking in on Layla...and sending get well wishes.

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i'm sitting here racking my brain as to how she got this. i know there's no definite way of knowing, but she was actually at the dog park within a week of this happening.

we live in an apartment for now and she's not an 'outside dog' so i don't think she could have contracted it at home.

is there something i should do to prevent this from happening to other dogs? should i call up the park? the only contact she has with other dogs/feces is that park. i feel like i should do something...


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the website has no contact info. i guess that won't be happening.

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Wow. I havent' been on much over the past few days and I just saw this thread. I'm so sorry that you're going through this. How awful. I'm just curious....did your breeder take her for a parvo vaccine as part of her first set of vaccinations before you brought her home? Both of our boys have the parvovirus vaccine when they were about 6 weeks old. I hope she recovers quickly! Good thoughts coming your way...

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Parvo is highly, highly contagious, particularly to pups and to dogs with parasitic infections in the intestine, so the whipworms probably made her more susceptible.

You could certainly let the people who run the dog park know that a puppy got parvo there. There was probably an unvaccinated dog who was pre- or post-symptomatic and pooped there, and Layla sniffed at the stool some time later. Even if it was properly cleaned up, the residue on the grass could have still carried it. It's very persistent in stool.

These things happen, and there's little we can do to control them. One thing you can do for the future is to make sure she's on Interceptor instead of Heartguard, since Interceptor prevents whipworms and a few other things that Heartguard doesn't. Without the whipworms and once she's a bit older, it's rather unlikely she'll get it again.

I've heard the parvo vaccine isn't all that effective. Probably better than nothing, but preventing the parasitic infection will probably do more in the long run.

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