[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: GSD numbers in shelters
- From: "Peggy" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cnnpmm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <windwych@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:11:52 -0400
Just so people know.............that particularly nasty
strain of parvo isn't limited to shelters in the deep south...
it's been hitting the shows around here, and people are bringing it home
with them from those shows.
Entries are falling, but the same old problems exist...
even if you go to a show without a dog, you could bring back a
bug.........local vets have been talking about the new parvo.......(seems
like there's a new strain every year or so, too)
Peggy
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Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: GSD numbers in shelters
> "Dawn Restuccia" <windwych@xxxxxxxxx> writes: When I REPEATEDLY sent
> letters to the MSPCA (the group that flys the dogs in) regarding the
> plight
> of the dogs in the south, I received no response. I HAVE spoken to ACO's
> in
> Mass...the concern is the health issues that are appearing in the southern
> dogs. Screw worm is resurfacing; something that I guess has not been seen
> in
> a long time. Also, there is a particularly NASTY strain of parvo in the
> southern shelters.
>
> Sounds like things haven't changed much in the 20 years since I "worked in
> the trenches" down South. Myself, another woman, and a Vet were the sole
> animal rescuers for a large, poor county in the South that had no shelter,
> no leash laws, no laws against dog fighting
>
> I paid the local kids to capture the strays and bring them to me for
> "doctoring." It was heartbreaking to see these poor creatures up close
> and
> personal. I don't how many dogs died before I could even get them to the
> vet.
>
> Hunters would keep a pack of sometimes 50 or more hunting dogs during
> hunting season. When the season ended, they would release all these dogs
> to
> fend for themselves. If a dog lived until the next hunting season, it
> would
> be fed and used for that season, then released and the whole cycle would
> repeat itself.
>
> Also, a lot of these people living in the South don't have the money to
> vaccinate or spay/neuter their dogs. Communicable diseases such as Parvo
> run rampart, so I'm not surprised to hear that a new strain of Parvo has
> appeared in the South. Severe parasitic infections are the norm in
> strays.
> With their immunity weakened by disease and parasites, most dogs I rescued
> had pretty awful cases of mange. I won't even go into the plight of feral
> cats...
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