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Yes she has had everything the vet says she needs to this point (6 months old). Cost me about $300 all together. I have a list at home of what the shots are. I just don't remember ever hearing the word Parvo.

I'll check tonight. Thank God for FR!

I'd guarantee she had Parvo vaccine with the shot series your vet gave her then... and if she's six months, she's past the really critical risk anyhow. Pups get parvo, adults rarely do.

I can't explain why Parvo isn't discussed or as well known as the other canine diseases... Because it's environmental, meaning it's ~everywhere~ - they don't get it from another dog, they get it anywhere they go. It's intestinal, causing sever diarrhea, and the poor pups just dwindle and dehydrate and get weaker and weaker and usually die, whether you treat them or not. Very heartbreaking to watch. You can spend hundreds nursing them and they still die. Every unvaccinated pup I've ever seen has ended up with Parvo. Usually pups belonging to friends who try to get by on the cheap and forego shots. They may get away with that with adults, but not pups.

Pinging vetvetdoug, just to double check my facts... I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night.