Parvovirus Warning
The owner of a young dog which attended the TAG Easter Show (4-9 April, West Midland Showground in Shrewsbury) has reported that the dog has been positively diagnosed as suffering from canine parvovirus. This is a highly contagious disease which is especially dangerous to puppies and younger dogs.
> If you were at the TAG Easter show please watch your dogs for any symptoms. Incubation is typically 3-10 days.
> If you were at the TAG Easter show, please consider whether you should attend agility shows in the next couple of weeks. As owners it is our responsibility to prevent the spread of diseases, especially such a dangerous and contagious illness. Please remember that the standard KC show entry form requires you to promise not to take your dogs to a show if they have suffered from or been in contact with contagious diseases in the preceding 21 days.
http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/item/4258
I wasn’t at TAG, I was at Hare’n’Hounds. I can’t imagine anyone travelled 150miles from Hare’n’Hounds to TAG, but you never know, so I guess my dogs might have been exposed. I don’t have another show until June anyway, but I am at flyball tomorrow, where my dogs will expose multiple other dogs, who will then go to other training classes and omg with the infection never stop!? I have a training session next week with a handler who was at TAG, but I should probably cancel that too.
In all seriousness, this is just a signal boost, and I don’t normally do these. Take it seriously, take sensible precautions, disinfect, keep an eye on your dogs. Do not go actual crazy.