| Alabama Rot on 17:48 - Mar 11 with 2665 views | max936 |
Looks a bastard Jimbo, not heard of it down here, a cure or vaccine will be found though remember Parvovirus horrible dirty depilating disease we lost a Dobe pup with it I spent a fortune on trying to save him, but I couldn't terrible watching the poor mite die, but we tried to give him every chance. |  |
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| Alabama Rot on 18:07 - Mar 11 with 2629 views | CountyJim |
| Alabama Rot on 17:48 - Mar 11 by max936 |
Looks a bastard Jimbo, not heard of it down here, a cure or vaccine will be found though remember Parvovirus horrible dirty depilating disease we lost a Dobe pup with it I spent a fortune on trying to save him, but I couldn't terrible watching the poor mite die, but we tried to give him every chance. |
Thats terrible Steve
I have showered my boy today he came back from our walk soaking and black as arseholes and me  |  | | |
| Alabama Rot on 19:07 - Mar 11 with 2563 views | max936 |
| Alabama Rot on 18:07 - Mar 11 by CountyJim |
Thats terrible Steve
I have showered my boy today he came back from our walk soaking and black as arseholes and me |
Where did you take him the Blending Plant | |
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| Alabama Rot on 19:12 - Mar 11 with 2552 views | CountyJim |
| Alabama Rot on 19:07 - Mar 11 by max936 |
Where did you take him the Blending Plant |
Ha! no it chucked it down around here this afto | | | |
| Alabama Rot on 19:36 - Mar 11 with 2523 views | max936 |
| Alabama Rot on 19:12 - Mar 11 by CountyJim |
Ha! no it chucked it down around here this afto |
And here we didn't have black rain though | |
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| Alabama Rot on 19:37 - Mar 11 with 2513 views | Jackfath |
Good name for a band. |  |
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| Alabama Rot on 20:02 - Mar 11 with 2483 views | Joe_bradshaw |
| Alabama Rot on 19:37 - Mar 11 by Jackfath |
Good name for a band. |
Indeed.
I expected this thread to be about music. |  |
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| Alabama Rot on 21:05 - Mar 11 with 2441 views | Jack_Meoff |
| Alabama Rot on 19:37 - Mar 11 by Jackfath |
Good name for a band. |
I thought they were the guys that did the Sopranos theme tune. |  |
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| Alabama Rot on 23:53 - Mar 11 with 2379 views | BarrySwan |
| Alabama Rot on 17:48 - Mar 11 by max936 |
Looks a bastard Jimbo, not heard of it down here, a cure or vaccine will be found though remember Parvovirus horrible dirty depilating disease we lost a Dobe pup with it I spent a fortune on trying to save him, but I couldn't terrible watching the poor mite die, but we tried to give him every chance. |
Pretty upsetting stuff and it's spreading all over Wales, A dog died of it in Barry this week and another in St Athan.
As regards finding a cure or vaccine the worrying thing is that this has been kicking about for quite a number of years now in the States ( hence the name of the condition) and the americans haven't managed to find a cure or vaccine yet, despite I would imagine huge efforts to do so. [Post edited 11 Mar 2018 23:54]
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| Alabama Rot on 00:21 - Mar 12 with 2357 views | max936 |
| Alabama Rot on 23:53 - Mar 11 by BarrySwan |
Pretty upsetting stuff and it's spreading all over Wales, A dog died of it in Barry this week and another in St Athan.
As regards finding a cure or vaccine the worrying thing is that this has been kicking about for quite a number of years now in the States ( hence the name of the condition) and the americans haven't managed to find a cure or vaccine yet, despite I would imagine huge efforts to do so. [Post edited 11 Mar 2018 23:54]
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Parvovirus was the same, they've managed to get to grips with it now, think they have at least got a cure for it now, Took ours to a vet in Porthcawl who had had some very good success in curing dogs with it, but ours wasn't so lucky disease was to well established although he tried, nasty horrible disease.
Correction there's still no cure for Parvo just checked. [Post edited 12 Mar 2018 0:28]
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| Alabama Rot on 09:16 - Mar 12 with 2257 views | Professor |
| Alabama Rot on 00:21 - Mar 12 by max936 |
Parvovirus was the same, they've managed to get to grips with it now, think they have at least got a cure for it now, Took ours to a vet in Porthcawl who had had some very good success in curing dogs with it, but ours wasn't so lucky disease was to well established although he tried, nasty horrible disease.
Correction there's still no cure for Parvo just checked. [Post edited 12 Mar 2018 0:28]
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Probably caused by a toxin-producing Escherichia coli, but not conclusive. Very difficult to produce a vaccine as Ill-defined and no infection model. The US do a not have a great lead in vet research in general. Companion animal research is pretty limited to vaccine/pharmaceutical companies (and is small beer to them) or small charitable grants whereas government funding goes into livestock research to help protect food security. No cure for parvo which is why vaccination Is so important and why anti vaccination groups are so dangerous for human and animal health | | | |
| Alabama Rot on 09:58 - Mar 12 with 2228 views | max936 |
| Alabama Rot on 09:16 - Mar 12 by Professor |
Probably caused by a toxin-producing Escherichia coli, but not conclusive. Very difficult to produce a vaccine as Ill-defined and no infection model. The US do a not have a great lead in vet research in general. Companion animal research is pretty limited to vaccine/pharmaceutical companies (and is small beer to them) or small charitable grants whereas government funding goes into livestock research to help protect food security. No cure for parvo which is why vaccination Is so important and why anti vaccination groups are so dangerous for human and animal health |
Information about these two deadly dog diseases
http://alabamarot.co.uk/about-alabama-rot/about-rot/
https://pets.webmd.com/dogs/parvo-parvovirus-dogs#1 | |
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| Alabama Rot on 11:00 - Mar 12 with 2198 views | Professor |
Be careful with ‘veterinary’ information on the web guys. There is lots of duff and sometimes wrong information out there. The parvo link is fine but that Alabama Rot one has lots of opinion not evidence. Not to say it is wrong, but as I said we know very little about it and people but forward theories with little evidence. This includes
Vets who should know better! | | | |
| Alabama Rot on 13:57 - Mar 12 with 2159 views | max936 |
| Alabama Rot on 11:00 - Mar 12 by Professor |
Be careful with ‘veterinary’ information on the web guys. There is lots of duff and sometimes wrong information out there. The parvo link is fine but that Alabama Rot one has lots of opinion not evidence. Not to say it is wrong, but as I said we know very little about it and people but forward theories with little evidence. This includes
Vets who should know better! |
I just googled them both and selected a link to put on here Prof people can then dig further if they wish, the interesting one for me is Parvo, as I've experienced it first hand unfortunately.
The Alabama Rot seems a lot nastier though, the difference is you can prevent Parvo in most cases as it generally attacks puppies, which makes it easier to control to a point, the Alabama one is a real danger though. | |
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| Alabama Rot on 14:06 - Mar 12 with 2151 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Alabama Rot on 13:57 - Mar 12 by max936 |
I just googled them both and selected a link to put on here Prof people can then dig further if they wish, the interesting one for me is Parvo, as I've experienced it first hand unfortunately.
The Alabama Rot seems a lot nastier though, the difference is you can prevent Parvo in most cases as it generally attacks puppies, which makes it easier to control to a point, the Alabama one is a real danger though. |
Dogs are vaccinated against parvo now.
Alabama Rot is really worrying. The only hope is that it's been here for at least 4 or 5 years and the number of cases is still very, very small. | | | |
| Alabama Rot on 14:38 - Mar 12 with 2129 views | max936 |
| Alabama Rot on 14:06 - Mar 12 by londonlisa2001 |
Dogs are vaccinated against parvo now.
Alabama Rot is really worrying. The only hope is that it's been here for at least 4 or 5 years and the number of cases is still very, very small. |
Yeah I know, the vet I took my Dobe pup to when he become seriously ill with Parvo told me that he had probably caught it off the Pups Father, I had him at 8 weeks I naïvely accepted from the breeder that he had, had his first round of injections which he clearly hadn't, the pups where bred at home and I later found out that four other pups had succumb to the disease, the Vet took the case on with the RSPCA after I did some ground work, this was 30ish yrs ago though. | |
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| Alabama Rot on 15:25 - Mar 12 with 2115 views | Flashberryjack |
A good friend of mine lost his Springer Spaniel bitch to it last week, she was a smashing little bitch, a Field Trial Winner as well. |  |
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| Alabama Rot on 15:28 - Mar 12 with 2112 views | Professor |
| Alabama Rot on 13:57 - Mar 12 by max936 |
I just googled them both and selected a link to put on here Prof people can then dig further if they wish, the interesting one for me is Parvo, as I've experienced it first hand unfortunately.
The Alabama Rot seems a lot nastier though, the difference is you can prevent Parvo in most cases as it generally attacks puppies, which makes it easier to control to a point, the Alabama one is a real danger though. |
Thankfully Alabama Rot is pretty rare and has remained a nasty if unusual disease in the US. Just seems to be in the media now. As said at least Parvo and some other infections are vaccine preventable. Worth bearing in mind tick-borne diseases have been on the increase too. | | | |
| Alabama Rot on 16:00 - Mar 12 with 2097 views | max936 |
| Alabama Rot on 15:28 - Mar 12 by Professor |
Thankfully Alabama Rot is pretty rare and has remained a nasty if unusual disease in the US. Just seems to be in the media now. As said at least Parvo and some other infections are vaccine preventable. Worth bearing in mind tick-borne diseases have been on the increase too. |
What do you know about Cardiomyopathy?
I lost my Max to what I think was that.2,1/2 yrs ago aged 11, I emailed a consultant at Liverpool Veterinary College after receiving an email from her, she was off on maternity leave at the time but she never got back to me. | |
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| Alabama Rot on 16:17 - Mar 12 with 2089 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Alabama Rot on 15:28 - Mar 12 by Professor |
Thankfully Alabama Rot is pretty rare and has remained a nasty if unusual disease in the US. Just seems to be in the media now. As said at least Parvo and some other infections are vaccine preventable. Worth bearing in mind tick-borne diseases have been on the increase too. |
There was a lot of Lyme disease about in London last year. For humans as well. Hopefully the cold winter will have killed a lot off this year. | | | |
| Alabama Rot on 17:30 - Mar 12 with 2066 views | Professor |
| Alabama Rot on 16:17 - Mar 12 by londonlisa2001 |
There was a lot of Lyme disease about in London last year. For humans as well. Hopefully the cold winter will have killed a lot off this year. |
The ticks or the bug? Borrelia are quite tough! | | | |
| Alabama Rot on 18:09 - Mar 12 with 2050 views | londonlisa2001 |
| Alabama Rot on 17:30 - Mar 12 by Professor |
The ticks or the bug? Borrelia are quite tough! |
The ticks that spread it!
It seems that the incidences have been far higher in the last couple of years and last year particularly as the winters were mild. Or so the doctors believe anyway. | | | |
| Alabama Rot on 18:45 - Mar 12 with 2032 views | Professor |
| Alabama Rot on 16:17 - Mar 12 by londonlisa2001 |
There was a lot of Lyme disease about in London last year. For humans as well. Hopefully the cold winter will have killed a lot off this year. |
Generally yes, but more impact on midges and mosquitoes than ticks. Ixodes ticks are pretty endemic but the warmer southern grass and woodland have a bigger problem, though there is some Lyme up north too. | | | |
| Alabama Rot on 19:12 - Mar 12 with 2014 views | max936 |
| Alabama Rot on 18:45 - Mar 12 by Professor |
Generally yes, but more impact on midges and mosquitoes than ticks. Ixodes ticks are pretty endemic but the warmer southern grass and woodland have a bigger problem, though there is some Lyme up north too. |
Did you read my post above Prof asking you about Cardiomyopathy? | |
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| Alabama Rot on 22:20 - Mar 12 with 1975 views | Professor |
| Alabama Rot on 19:12 - Mar 12 by max936 |
Did you read my post above Prof asking you about Cardiomyopathy? |
Sorry Max
Infection and immunity is my thing. I don’t know much about heart conditions. Who did you contact before? I only know a few people in the small animal hospital sadly. | | | |
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