It does sound like Parvo – your description of the vomit is about right, not all dogs have blood in their diarrhea (although most do), and fever is not an especially common symptom in our experience.

As to whether she will be OK, we obviously cannot say. Vets’ success rates with Parvo are typically 50%, but there are many factors that determine whether a dog will make it or not (e.g. has she been vaccinated and/or dewormed recently, what food does she eat, is she on prescription meds, has she had access to any chemicals by accidents, such as bleach or weedkillers, for example, how strong is her immune system, how much does she weigh).

Except in extreme circumstances, we always recommend treating Parvo at home using a home Parvo Treatment Kit (http://www.ParvoEmergencyTreatment.com/ProductCalculator), as it’s a lot cheaper than taking your dog to the vet, and we usually have a better success rate (around 90%).

Whatever you decide to do, we hope your dog pulls through.

I’m worried about my 8month old pit. She has been throwing up since Sunday. We took her to the vet Monday and the parvo test came back positive. I took her to another vet, that said since she playful, and no bloody stool, no fever, that t she could not have parvo. On Wednesday I decided to take her back to the vet cause she kept throwing up. At this point they are treating her as parvo. Still no fever, no bloody stool, but throwing up yellow, and sometimes its clear, with substances that look like cold or mucus. Please help, will my baby be Okay?

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There are many ways in which dogs can get Parvo, and as you say, bird droppings are one. Have a read of a couple of posts on another of our blogs, called How Did My Dog Get Parvo?, and Why The Dog Grooming Salon May Not Be As Safe As You Thought.

As for your older dogs, then they could still get the virus. We’ve heard of dogs as old as 14 getting Parvo, even though they had been fully-vaccinated their entire lives. We suggest you get a Parvo Treatment Kit and keep it on hand, just in case.

The only substance we know of that is guaranteed to get rid of the Parvo virus is regular bleach (in a 1:30 dilution), which you can obviously only use on certain surfaces. If you do bleach, remember to rinse it off / mop it up after 30 – 60 minutes, because you don’t want dogs ingesting bleach either.

Some people steam clean, but that’s not guaranteed to do the job.

Outdoors, if’s practically impossible to get rid of the virus – even if you could bleach your entire yard, it only takes on bird or insect to reinfect you again.

Read this post: Vaccines Lower Immunity.

I’m guessing you’re not vets because no vet would make the statement “By giving your infected dog a Parvo shot, you’ve just given the virus an army of reinforcements and a tactical coup, since the Parvo shot is engineered to lower the dog’s immune system…”

Vaccines introduce attenuated virii (can’t cause infection) so that the body builds defenses against them. They, in fact, strengthen the immune system.

The main symptoms are described in our Signs Of Parvo post.

You can take your dog to the vet’s to be tested, but please be aware that these tests are not 100% reliable- you can get both false positives (i.e. the test shows your dog has Parvo when he doesn’t) and false negatives (i.e. your dog does have Parvo even though the test says he doesn’t).

Also, there are other conditions that can mimic Parvo (e.g. Campylobacter), and which can even generate a positive Parvo test.

Our policy is that if it looks like Parvo, you’d better treat it as though it is, because by the time you realise it really is Parvo, you may have waited too long and lost your dog. This is one reason why we advise all dog owners to have a Home Parvo Treatment Kit on hand at all times, as you never known when Parvo will strike.