Celebrating small steps forward: ALL FIVE PARVO PUPS ARE DRINKING AND EATING SOLIDS THIS MORNING!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
It’s been an absolutely horrendous week with 5 small bubs barely hanging to life, and around the clock care – hourly alarms set at night for hydration and subcutaneous liquids, as they did not keep anything by mouth and required extensive cleaning and sanitization basically every few minutes – in the summer, on full PPE, in a very hot indoor environment because poor little ones were freezing.
Adding to it, 7 other pups in quarantine, crated individually, and 11 adults kenneled individually with copious amount of sanitization and disinfection 3 times per day. Plus 4 JDC team.
I hate plastic gloves. And I hate puppy pads (couldn’t have lived without them, but seeing one now makes me physically sick). I did not sleep more than 50 min at a time for a week. Can’t eat and I am germophobic now, despite applying all the rules for handling biohazards learnt in a biopharmaceutical corporation, color coding etc.
I am grateful for the flash training from the vet how to maneuver needles and how to check the hydration levels on the first puppies that presented symptoms, so i can identify the onset and help them on spot before they decline drastically (we had deaths in 12h…). I pray that the toll stops at 4.
There’s still a long way ahead, none of them is completely out of danger now, we can still have cases, but wi th lack of contact we hope they are already contained. The ground is contaminated, so there’s a lot of shifting and replanning to do next, but at the moment it’s just sustaining life.
Thank you everyone for encouragement and support, and thank for the volunteer who ventured through this war camp nightmare to help with the adults, while all kennels are full. 🙏❤️

Note: this little one sitting here is a 5 weeks mastiff x pup. She is too young to be vaccinated, and she is the only one in her litter who have got it. She was VERY flat, wobbly and unable to stand for3 days and lost a very large amount of blood – but she fought it through, and she is winning!!!

The pup in the background is nine weeks, vaccinated, and battling it for 5 days – his identical brother was one of the pups we lost…in 12h from onset:-(