Parvo treatment at home for your dog is a perfectly practical and effective option, compared to the usual approach of having your dog treated at the animal hospital, even though you may meet considerable resistance to this idea.

 

So, let’s look at a few different factors, so that you can decide for yourself.

 

 

If you have your Parvo dog treated at the animal hospital, it will probably cost you anywhere from $500 USD to over $10,000 USD per dog.

 

On the other hand, if you treat your dog in the comfort of your own home, using products such as Parvaid, Vibactra Plus, Life Cell Immune Support and Doggie Pain Relief, then you can treat one or more dogs (depending on their weight) for about $275 USD, and that includes FedEx Overnight shipping (anything else is nowhere near fast enough, so don’t be tempted by offers of free shipping on some websites – this free shipping is usually USPS Priority Mail, but your dog can be dead by the time your package arrives if you use this type of service).

 

 

Most animal hospitals offer dog owners a mere 50:50 chance of their dog surviving Parvo, with the worst we’ve come across being a 33% chance, and the best an 80% chance.

 

Alternatively, if you treat your Parvo dog at home using all of the products in the Parvo Gold Treatment Kit, then the survival rate is 90%, on average.

 

Part of this increased success rate is because treating your dog at home, yourself, is less stressful for both your dog and you, and reduced stress equals an improved chance of your dog surviving this dreadful virus.

 

24 x 7 support, and the unique Parvo vPETS service (constant phone contact every 4-5 hours or so during the first couple of days of full treatment – this does include hourly treatment, throughout the night as well, since Parvo doesn’t take a break or mount its attack on any type of schedule) if you can find it, can also increase your dog’s chance of beating Parvo, but you certainly won’t come across many vets offering this.

 

 

If you take your dog to the vet’s and they want to keep him there, then it is very likely that there will be nobody in attendance over night, so your dog could be by himself, or with other sick dogs, for about 12 hours.

 

However, if you carry out the Parvo treatment at home, then you will be there, with your dog, 24 hours a day.

 

Don’t forget that dogs, just like many other animals, are very sensitive to emotions, and having people around who genuinely love and care for them will speed their recovery.

 

 

If money is no object and you are prepared to accept the fairly low chances of success offered by vets, then you can basically drop your dog off there and collect him again, assuming that he survives, in one to seven days’ time.

 

If you opt for home Parvo treatment, on the other hand, then you do need to be prepared for a few sleepless nights, as one of the four products, Parvaid, does need 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.

 

 

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 practically terminally-ill and almost unrecognizable doggie come through this frequently fatal virus, far outweigh the disadvantage of 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 make sure you have a Parvo Gold Treatment Kit in your cupboard at all times – this way, if your dog should be infected by the Parvo virus, you’ll be ready to begin treatment immediately, even if it’s 3:00am on a Sunday morning, when you’ll probably struggle to find an animal hospital open.