If your dog is not eating, then it may be due to any number of reasons, some of which may be no cause for concern at all, while others may be the early symptoms of a potentially lethal virus.
Less worrying reasons might include stress, such as moving to a new home, which nonetheless will need to be addressed, but it can be very dangerous to make such an assumption and consequently ignore other possibilities.
You see, dogs not eating, especially when combined with a lack of energy, lethargy, and a general unwillingness to play, are often the very first signs that they have Read the rest of this entry »
As we’ve reported before, we occasionally get emails from people who accuse us of all sorts of irresponsible behaviour.
The latest such email came in just a few days ago from Bob Steppelo, a Licensed Veterinary Technician, so in the interests of both using this post as a vehicle for replying to him (as he didn’t even have the courage to leave us a valid email address to reply to), and as a way to help demonstrate how narrow-minded and hypocritical many people are, we are reprinting the content of Bob’s email, as well as our comprehensive reply.
So, here is the email we received:
$139.95 for a product with no guarantees and no FDA approval or efficacy tests? Sounds like a winner. I especially love your misinformation about the parvo virus, and making veterinarians out to look like the devil, that was a nice touch.
Bob Steppelo, LVT
And here is our response:
Bob,
- How about the $500 to $12,000 per animal that our customers are being quoted by their vets (yes, these figures are not made up but come from customers we’ve worked with), and with an average success rate of only 50% (compared to our 90%)?
One of our customers in New York took her cat, who had Feline Distemper (aka Feline Parvo) to her vet, and he tried to extort $12,000 from her even though the cat died under their treatment. No offer of any refund there, you’ll note!
Against her vet’s “advice”, she did not choose to kill her other cats, but instead found us and managed to save them both, for a total cost of about $200. Why not read her unsolicited testimonial?
So, which do you think is the better value here?
- How many vets do you know that offer any guarantee / promise of a refund with their Parvo treatment? (BTW, not one of our thousands of customers has been offered one, ever.)
- One of our customers told us his vet had never managed to save a dog from Parvo.
How long do you think we’d be able to stay in business if our success rate was 0%, or even the still appallingly low 50%, which seems to be the average quoted by most vets?
To put this in perspective, would you wager maybe half your annual take home salary on the spin of a roulette wheel in Vegas coming up red as opposed to black? Because those are the sort of odds and costs many vets are offering?
(FYI, we’ve been selling these products since March 2007, have worked with thousands of customers and helped treat well over three thousand dogs, cats, and other mammals - all with about a 90% success rate.)
- How many vets offer 24 x 7 support to all of their customers? Is the vet you work for available at 3:00 am on a Sunday morning, for example? We suspect not.
We offer this level of support because we are here to save sick animals and get them better - not stuff them full of chemicals that will, in many cases, necessitate return visits to “treat” the secondary problems caused (and, of course, this is part of that cash cow referred to earlier).
- How about the typical in-clinic Parvo test that routinely generates a false negative which frequently opens the door for the vet to coerce pet owners into vaccinating animals exposed/infected with Parvo?
This scenario is so common - we encounter this multiple times a day. Since these animals are indeed infected, the vaccination is more than enough to send them over the top and almost guarantees they’ll develop full Parvo symptoms within a matter of days.
Would you want your animals to be subjected to that type of experimentation?
That’s gross negligence and that is precisely why we have little faith in those that put money before life.
Vets (and human doctors) are in bed with legalized drug pushers. They get all sorts of deals, bonuses, and so forth to push the drug du jour on to unsuspecting patients. You will not find vets turning down business; they will not suggest alternatives to vaccinations, they will not tell their patients to stop filling their animals with harmful chemicals, synthetics, artificial additives, etc. because there are just too many residual income streams and they could never make that type of cash selling inexpensive herbals.
- Why are we seeing so many of our customers’ dogs developing full life-threatening Parvo symptoms within one or two days of being vaccinated?
- Why are we seeing more and more adult dogs (some as old as five years) who are up-to-date on all of their shots still getting Parvo?
Could it possibly be that the vaccinations are increasingly less effective against the 2c strain that some vets still deny even exists?
- Why are so many vets still giving vaccinations every year (even though the AVMA recommends every three years), when the latest research shows that vaccinations are typically effective for at least seven years, if not longer, when the dangers of over-vaccination are now well-documented (e.g. a weakened immune system, chronic inflammation, cancer)?
Actually, we know the answer: money, as vaccinations are a cash cow!
According to one Canadian vet (who is starting to see the light about natural treatments), one dose of rabies vaccine costs the vet about 61 cents. The client is typically charged between $15 and $38, plus a $35 office visit. The mark-up on the vaccine alone is 2,400 percent to 6,200 percent - a mark-up equivalent to charging $217 for a loaf of bread.
According to one estimate, removing the one-year rabies vaccination and consequential office visit for dogs alone would decrease the average small vet’s income from $87,000 to $25,000 - and this doesn’t include cats or other vaccinations.
Still think the vet offers good value?
- Why do vets spread misinformation about Parvo to distraught pet owners?
For example, many of our customers have been told by their vet that once the bloody diarrhea appears (which it does in almost every single one of the thousands of Parvo cases we’ve dealt with), they might as well murder their dog (yes, we know you call it euthanasia, but we believe in calling a spade a spade) because they have no chance of survival, even though this is patently untrue.
- Why do our customers have to leave their sick pets at the vet’s or animal hospital for up to a week, incurring massive fees, when at the end of all that, their animal is still sick? (Dogs tend to be eating by themselves and keeping the food down by the end of the second day of treatment when using the products we sell, which is not the experience of those customers of ours who chose to go down the vet route.)
- Why would a vet, who presumably has chosen that profession in order to save animals, recommend murder instead of giving pet owners a chance of their pet surviving if they would only open their minds and try these products?
Murdering your pet gives them a 0% chance of survival (and sometimes for a cost that is greater than the cost of buying the products we sell), whereas administering a home Parvo treatment will, in most cases, give the animal a second lease of life and save the family from having to make that gut-wrenching decision to kill their dog - a decision which we know haunts some pet owners for years to come, as they will always wonder “what if?”
- Why do so many vets recommend giving products such as Pedialyte, Gatorade, chicken and rice to dogs with Parvo when these can cause additional and avoidable problems (e.g. excessive vomiting, the risk of bacterial infection by agents such as campylobacter, the risk of a fatal blockage)?
- Why would so many people send us unsolicited testimonialsand case studies if these products weren’t effective?
Until you have tried these products yourself, which you clearly have not done, then please leave us to get on with our mission of saving sick pets from viruses such as Canine Parvo and Feline Distemper, instead of having to spend our valuable time replying to your highly uninformed opinions, as that is all they are.
We’re now on Twitter, so if you want to be kept up to date with what’s happening in the world of Canine Parvovirus, as well as site updates, new products and anything else doggie-related (well, OK, cats too), then please join the thousands of people who already follow us.
OregonLive.com reports on breeders’ reaction to a new law, intended to clamp down on puppy mills:
http://www.oregonlive.com/pets/index.ssf/2009/06/reputable_breeders_chafe_over.html
We are all for anything that reduces the number of breeders, whether they are “reputable” ones, or puppy mills.
You see, the problem is, there are Read the rest of this entry »
A vet in Wisconsin reports that Parvo cases are on the increase:
http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/48811047.html
What she doesn’t mention is that the most likely culprit is not the vaccinations being given incorrectly (which is a sad indictment on her fellow vets), but the Read the rest of this entry »
We occasionally receive emails, completely out of the blue, from people who stumble across one of our websites.
Many of these people write to express their outrage at the products we sell, and the fact that we dare to offer a home remedy for Parvo instead of recommending that people take their sick dog to the vet’s.
The following is typical of the sort of uninformed rubbish that we receive:
We are, of course, always sorry to hear about any dog succumbing to the Canine Parvovirus:
http://www.supercross.com/component/fireboard/?func=view&catid=1&id=336418
However, this just serves to remind people that the 2c strain is very different to the older strains that were prevalent in the 1990s, and even the earlier part of the current decade.
Back then, keeping a dog hydrated was often enough to save it, but this is no longer the case with the 2c strain - you still need to keep sick dogs hydrated, and you also need to prevent hypoglycemia (which is caused by Parvo dogs not eating - sometimes for many days), but you also need to attack the virus on several different fronts, and that is exactly what the products in our Gold Value Pack do.
With vaccinations no longer being a viable solution, then we would strongly recommend having the necessary products on hand at all times, as this virus can now kill dogs in as little as six hours after symptoms first appear.
Place your order now, and you’ll be prepared should the worst happen.
Following on from earlier news about Oprah Winfrey’s latest experience with Parvo, there is another article about this in her O magazine:
http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200906-omag-oprah-sadie-puppy
There’s one more thing we’d like to add to our previous post, and it’s this: if somebody with Read the rest of this entry »
The question of where to buy Parvaid doesn’t seem that difficult - all you need to do is go to the local store and pick up a bottle.
Sorry, that’s just too easy; it is a little more involved than that.
Parvaid is an herbal product that is free of both chemicals and synthetics. It is both effective and safe. Sadly, since it is not a chemical-based drug, most vets who are trained in Western Medicine completely dismiss organic products as nothing but some alternative solution that cannot possibly work as it has not been approved by the FDA.
Herbal products that are food supplements or botanicals, as in the case of Parvaid and all of the other products required to treat Parvo, do not have to be evaluated by the FDA and therefore need not be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Whenever you run into non-traditional and non-mainstream products, you will find a Read the rest of this entry »
If there’s one common theme that we can see in many of the 850+ customers we’ve worked with over the past two years, it’s this: people don’t seem to comprehend just how fast-acting and aggressive the Canine Parvo virus is.
You can go to bed one night, with a perfectly healthy-looking, happy dog, and wake up in the morning to a very sick one - and, yes, the title of this article is not just a play on a popular expression, because Parvo has an unmistakable smell, as the diarrhea, which is frequently one of the first symptoms to appear with the latest 2c strain of this virus, is absolutely disgusting and unlike anything else you may have experienced before.
We had one customer, in the Pacific Northwest, whose dog first showed symptoms of Parvo on a Sunday morning, and by later that afternoon, Read the rest of this entry »
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