Vet Clinic vs. Home Treatment
Although I stand strongly for home treatment using holistic medicine, there are both pros and cons to vet clinics and home treatment. Weigh both options seriously before choosing one.
Vet Clinic
Cons: Vet clinics give puppies a 50/50 chance of survival. If your dog is taken to the vet early, the chances may be higher. Vets charge hundreds of dollars per overnight stay (this includes antibiotics, IV fluid, etc.). Emergency vet clinics will be especially expensive. Even after a week and $6000+, your puppy can die. Antibiotics given by vets are not as powerful as natural antibiotics (of course, vets will disagree).
Pro: You can continue to live your life normally (work, kids, school, whatever keeps you busy) while others take care of your dog.
Home Treatment
Pro: Wolf Creek Ranch in California has saved 97% of all puppies that have come in. As long as you follow their guide closely, your puppy has a high chance of survival. With their help, my puppy survived.
Natural antibiotics are stronger than clinical medicines and are much more affordable. I bought almost everything as far as medicines, supplies, etc. that was recommended by sites online and spent no more than $200 on everything. This was less than the cost of merely one of Haley’s overnight hospital stays.
Con: The puppy will need EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR medicinal doses, even through the night. It may be a few days, probably at least two full days, that your puppy will need this intensive treatment. You will get very physically and emotionally tired. It will not be easy going through so much trouble and not even knowing if your puppy is getting better – in fact, your puppy will probably look like it’s laying on it’s deathbed before you start to see improvement. This will take a lot of fortitude to deal with.
So that’s the two options in a nutshell. IF you are insistent on doing whatever it takes to help your puppy get better…
The Third Option…
The third option, of course, requires no physical sacrifice – no sacrifice of money, time, or energy – and that is choosing to let the puppy go. If you are considering this decision, you’ll know in your heart what the right decision is. I’m not necessarily saying your heart will tell you, “Keep the puppy alive!” That’s not what I mean by heart. It’s perfectly understandable to choose this route if you’ve only had the puppy a very short time, or it’s had many health problems already, or many other reasons. Maybe it’s personality, that you’ve seen so far, is very aggressive and potentially dangerous.
I don’t believe choosing to let your puppy go is wrong. If you’re only going to resent the time/cost that has to go into healing a parvo puppy, and therefore resent the puppy, there’s no point. Also, if money is a very big issue for you, yes, it may be cheaper to adopt a new puppy rather than keeping your sick one alive.
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