[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: can my dogs catch things from a pet store puppy?
- From: Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx
- To: hartten@xxxxxxxxxxxx, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:46:58 EST
In a message dated 11/21/2006 4:30:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
hartten@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Dear List,
My daughter & I are going to a friend's house for Thanksgiving. To
simplify life (and have more fun), we're bringing the dogs and staying
the night at his son's house, which is next door; the yards share a 3'
chain link fence. My friend has a ~3yr old toy poodle that my dogs are
familiar with. As of Sunday night my friend also has a 12-14-wk old toy
poodle. I believe he got it for free, from one of his tenants, who
perhaps works at the pet shop where the puppy has been. (Originally
$600, marked down to $200, then given away ... what a life.)
Could this puppy be contagious for any diseases my dogs can get? Indi
is almost 2, Brittany is 11, they are up on their shots (rabies,
distemper, parvo, lepto, whatever else is standard I can't remember
right now). If it were *my* puppy, I'd worry about it catching
something from older dogs, but it's not so I won't. I just want to know
if I need to be careful for my dogs' sakes. (If it were my puppy, it
would have come to me via a different route ... and been a larger breed
... and ...!)
Cheers,
Leslie
Sure, they could catch kennel cough or a similar bug. Herpes virus is
spread via aerosol in dogs and not uncommon where you have large groups of dogs
housed in close proximity. Who knows if the puppy has been on any kind of
worming schedule. (But, I don't think the risk is any more or less than an
indoor
show this time of year.)
The bigger question is how do you get them to stay in a 3' chain link fence?
And if the dogs are running on either side, how do you stop something from
being pulled though and bitten??? Like an ear, a lip, a youngster's paw?
Mine would laugh at 3'. (I have ill behaved doggies! besides, back in the
day they had to jump that + for Utility.) And I do have a gal that will fence
fight and if something got close enough, hate to say it, but she would pull
something through.
Kathy
member GSDCA, DVGSDC
three generations of Dual Titled TC'd Champions live here!
visit _Pine Hill German Shepherd Dogs_
(http://www.geocities.com/pinehillgsds/)
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