Well, I get Barley and Bramble boosted year after year ...
At the Blue Cross at Burford we were supposed to be getting two litters of puppies from Ireland (not sure if N or S) into our Southampton Centre last week .. well, they arrived, but they were already dying because they had Parvo .. now, our Southampton Centre is in isolation because of that... puppies have already died and maybe they all will .....
At the Blue Cross, we take in canine strays (albeit until the local Dog Warden can come) and also dogs and cats from homes who are not vaccinated. We try as best we can to keep them isolated, but in many Centres, such as Burford, we do not have the facilities to keep dogs, cats, kittens and puppies in the sort of isolation that Parvo demands ... that, and Feline Influenza, Aids and other transmittable diseases are endemic amongst strays and other itinerant animals and so these outbreaks keep on happening ....
For people who think that we have eradicated Parvo - well, I think that what I have described above is probably just the tip of the iceberg - animals coming in from another country whose vaccination records are sort of 5% - you don't have to look beyone the EU for that ! Now we have opened up the borders and anyone can bring a pet into the country from wherever, are we going to get reports of rabies ?? It can be carried by foxes or squirrels as well as domesticated pets .. It is not the responsible pet owner that we are looking at, rather the owner who catches their cat and smugges it into the UK and so it goes on ....