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Originally Posted by Jayems
My old boss took his new puppy to a dog wash in Strathmore and it promptly caught a virus from being in there and died a few days later.
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So . . . . . it sounds like your boss took a puppy that interacted with other dogs and caught Parvo Virus . . . . and all of this happened to coincidentally occur at a dog wash.
Because antibodies from the mother can inactivate the vaccine until the puppy is 16 to 18 weeks of age, preventing contact with infected animals or contaminated environments is critical.
http://www.pets.ca/encyclopedia/parvovirus_dog.htm
You have to be very careful with puppies and parvo in their first months of life.
The dog wash per se likely had nothing to do with the death of the puppy.
Cowperson