Only a healthy pet is a happy companion. To assure your pet's dailly well-being requires regular care and close attention to any hint of ill health. The American Veterinary Medical Association therefore suggests that you consult your veterinarian if your pet shows any of the following signs:
Abnormal discharges from the nose, eyes, or other body openings. Loss of appetite, marked weight losses or gains, or excessive water consumption. Difficult, abnormal, or uncontrolled waste elimination. Abnormal behavior, sudden viciousness, or lethargy. Abnormal lumps, limping, or difficulty getting up or lying down. Excessive head shaking, scratching, and licking or biting any part of heart because the virus multiplies rapidly in muscle cells of the growing heart.
Pups with parvoviral myocarditis may act depressed and stop suckling shortly before they collapse gasping for breath. Death may follow within minutes. Others die at intervals over the next several days. There is no specific treatment. Pups that survive may have permanently damaged hearts. Such dogs may die from heart failure weeks or months after they have apparently recovered from infection.
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