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Yesterday we began wondering if our 3 month old puppy was poisoned, or perhaps has Parvovirus. I started researching online today. The Internet articles said if it was Parvovirus the smell of the diarrhea would be so horrible and distinctive that we’d have no doubt. They were right! Wheeewwwiiieee!

Most of the Internet advice said that a pup has almost no chance if you don’t go to a vet, or at the very least get a vet to show you how to do under-the-skin injections of liquids to combat the dehydration, plus giving Pedialyte, Pepto-Bismal, and antibiotics for any secondary infections. Since my friend wiped out my bank account 3 days ago, however, a purchasing anything or going to a vet is out of the question. (If this puppy dies it will be partly the fault my thieving ex-friend! We have to take our share of the blame, though, for not getting her shots.)

She has been vomiting for 2 days, so we’ve been trying to keep her drinking, but today she seems so very much worse. She isn’t vomiting anymore, but just lying there weak and listless. She seems disoriented too.  We found a recipe for home-made Gatorade, for which we thankfully have all the ingredients on hand, to try to restore her electrolytes and fight her obvious dehydration that we know is so deadly. We’ve been giving her that with a turkey baster (squirting it between her lips and teeth on the sides of her mouth) every couple of hours since this afternoon. We hope and pray that she is no longer getting worse, but she has been so still and non-responsive this evening that a couple of times we thought she had died.

We are so scared. We have all fallen in love with Rosy more than any other pet we’ve had. Every one of us thinks she is the cutest dog in the world. She is so sweet and loving, and funny and so smart too.

update: 2:45am Rosy died. We were all with her at the end.

Update 5/27/09 8:00pm  We just buried Rosy under a shade tree near the house, with a small flower bed right next to her. Hubby told her that she’d always be with us.

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