Parvo is a virus of canines dogs wolves cows foxes it made its uh presence about 1978 1980 within 2 years it was a worldwide virus everywhere every part of the world and it caused a lot of death and Devastation in our our dog population because they'd never seen the virus before we never had a vaccine [Music] what makes parvo so dangerous is that it it is a virus and so we don't have an antiviral drug we can pull up in a syringe and treat it and kill it we just have to give supportive care and so we don't have anything to cure the disease we just try and help the animal respond and live through it while it's making an immune response the other thing is that Parvo is so resistant to the environment um most viruses if they're in the environment once the UV sunlight hits it or it dries out um with heat or or drying those are all they all die they're just denatured parvo virus can lay in your yard for two or three months under a foot of snow melts off the dog walks across it licks his foot and he's got [Music] it protecting your dog from parvo is most important in our young or adolescent dogs less than a year old most Parvo is uh Mo most dogs that have fatalities are less than 4 months old the best way is to keep it away from other places of high animal traffic uh dog parks shelters doggy daycares um things like that where there is a lot of [Music] dogs treatment of Parvo consists of IV fluids antibiotics supportive care um sometimes you'll treat a dog the older the dog is the more respond to treatment uh sometimes you'll treat a dog two or three days they'll snap right out of it go back to drinking hydrating themselves and you've got a couple of hundred to maybe $1,000 some dogs if you treat 5 to S days and they may perish even then you can have several thousands of dollars involved so uh the treatment can be very expensive and you may spend all my time and your money with treatment and still have a dog that [Music] dies if you suspect your dog may have parvo you probably need to see a veterinarian pretty quick uh parvo the first signs that you'll see is a dog that's very lethargic he's depressed he doesn't want to eat shortly after that he may start some vomiting uh when they can't keep down fluids and they're losing them by vomiting you have about 24 hours before you're going to be clinically dehydrated so you have a little bit of time there once um you start to erode the gastrointestinal tract you'll see a bloody diarrhea now they're losing fluids out the back end they're vomiting them out the front end this dog is going to get dehydrated and acid base imbalance very fast