Liodins:

Your vet no get parvo testing kits?

Landmack:

Holiday pic of Jesse. This is what Jesse looks like..send this pic to ur dog,introduce him to ur dog. They’re now friends.
Jesse was adopted at 3weeks. We started with milk and yoghurt..then to pups canned meal...then to semo and soup...then to moimoi and rice etc pls don’t give Food with too much Pepper.

TheLoanGuy:
Thanks to everyone for their contributions.

And for helping detect what was wrong with Rocky properly. His condition got worse on Tuesday and in fact I had given up, I was moved to tears, to think that I just met Rocky on Saturday.
His poo was watery and had traces of blood and it also vomitted like twice. I called the vet and he asked me to bring 20k to start treatment first and that we'll talk about the balance later, I just gave this vet guy 14k on Saturday. It became clear to me that this guy was out to extort me.

I decided to research here on Nairaland, searched for "puppy parvo, puppy parvovirus" on the search box. It brought out other people's experience and what they did to help their dogs/puppies get through it.

I came across a guy's post on Nairaland about his dog having parvo, someone dropped a 24 hours solution for curing a puppy/dog of parvo, I didn't believe it at first but what did I stand to lose? Maybe Rocky sha, but I was determined I wasn't going to give the vet that 20k.

So I followed the guy's guide (I tweaked it a bit, based on small public health knowledge that I have and one other person's guide) and Rocky's poo for the first time since I got it was solid yesterday night and it has stopped vomitting. His play activity is now x3 of what it used to be and appetite has skyrocketed.

So here's how I cured Rocky of Parvovirus

I got
Virest 400mg (Aciclovir) - according to the guide, it stops the DNA replication of the virus in it's body. I got it for N6,500.

Diastop - to prevent it from vomiting and stop the watery poo. Although, Almethazine injection was recommended for this but since I don't know how to inject the puppy and Rocky was still able to ingest, I opted for Diastop (I saw this on another thread). I got this for N400.

Multivitamin syrup - He recommended the one with Zinc but I wasn't able to get that.

ORS -

Syringes 5ml - I did not use the needle, just the syringe to administer the medication to rocky orally after mixing.

Zinc - since I couldn't get multivitamin with zinc.
I mixed two tablets of zinc with a 75cl mix of a sachet of ORS, which I administered orally through the syring to Rocky. Based on my little public health education, for little kids, when a child has diarrhea, zinc is advised to be added to it.

Hypo - to mop the whole floor in the house and then I restricted it to the room.

So the first day (night).
I administered 2ml of Diastop
Grinded 400mg of virest and mixed with 2ml of the multivitamin.
Gave it 5ml of ORS 3 times.

Then later in the night, I gave it egg, it didn't eat it until in the midnight while I was sleeping.

I repeated the medication again early in the morning about 12 hours later.

I researched about things that dogs can eat on Google while they're recovering from parvo, I saw chicken, I bought half kilo of chicken, removed the flesh,cut out a portion and boiled it without salt and gave Rocky to eat. He loved it.

He pooed about 5 mins later, it was a mixture of solid and watery poo with no traces of blood. It showed that there was progress, I was determined to see monitor what Rocky's next poo would be like, so I can know if I was truly making progress or not.

About 4-5 hours later, I boiled rice without salt also and mixed it with chicken. Because of the chicken it ate the rice also.

At night, I boiled chicken for it again and made egg for it, which I kept for it before going to bed, he didn't eat it, just sniffed and left. Around midnight, it ate it and about 5 mins later, it started pacing and crying to poo and when it eventually did, the poo was solid for the first time and energy came from nowhere, Rocky started playing with x3 energy.

I hope someone would find this useful in the future like I did. Thanks to God, the wonderful guys here akoniyong for his concern and advise and to Nairaland.

Here are the the thread links I used to find the solution:
https://www.nairaland.com/4617661/please-puppy-dying-parvo-virus#69464177

https://www.nairaland.com/4373838/murphy-boerboel-gustaf-german-shepherd#65475926

donshaddow:
So happy your dog survived the parvovirus.

SlyfoxxjReturns:
Awww he’s cute. Don’t return him. You just have to train him. It’s like that the first few weeks or months after you get a new pup till they adjust to your training. Give him a little spank on the spot he poops inside the house then take him outside immediately for a walk. Reward him with a treat after he poops outside.

With time he will understand he is meant to do it outside not inside the house but you have to have time to walk him outside at least 3 times a day in that early stage.

This is what worked for my Lhasa apso even though he still gets stubborn once in a while and does it inside the house when I forget to take him out for long. But it’s not as bad as when he was a puppy.

SlyfoxxjReturns:
Awww he’s cute. Don’t return him. You just have to train him. It’s like that the first few weeks or months after you get a new pup till they adjust to your training. Give him a little spank on the spot he poops inside the house then take him outside immediately for a walk. Reward him with a treat after he poops outside.

With time he will understand he is meant to do it outside not inside the house but you have to have time to walk him outside at least 3 times a day in that early stage.

This is what worked for my Lhasa apso even though he still gets stubborn once in a while and does it inside the house when I forget to take him out for long. But it’s not as bad as when he was a puppy.

SIRKAY98:
Please i want to start a Dog business sir can you put me through?

brucewayne26:
It would be the wrong decision.

nathanjnr:



Hello, Please share with me too. I really need those training tips for my dog.
Thanks in advance.

kals4luv990:
For a mixed breed with a local dog
Sir your dog is beautiful