draggonlaady

With this sort of bullshit out there, no wonder people don't bring dogs in until they're practically dead. We got a call from someone today wanting to know about a product called parvaid, because his son has a sick dog that for some reason he can't/won't hospitalize. So I go look up what the stuff is, having never heard of it before.

http://www.parvobuster.com/

The lovely fuckheads at this site go so far as to claim that taking your sick dog to the vet is a waste of time, and you should instead "To save time, order now, and then come back and read this page, or the entire site if you like, but get the ball rolling so you can start to administer the emergency teas we send via email that will sustain your dog until your products arrive." No pressure there, right? don't read the page, don't look at what we're selling you, just order it, dammit OR YOUR DOG WILL DIE AND IT WILL BE YOUR FAULT.

They discourage vaccination, badmouth veterinary medicine, flatly lie about the chances of successful treatment of parvo by a veterinarian, refuse to tell you what's in the product they are selling, lie about what the product does (I guarantee you that if there was a cheap, easy, safe product available to "kill off the virus" we would be using it daily!), and use blatantly misleading claims and waffle about what they guarantee.

Highlights:

For sick dogs (i.e. dogs that already have the Canine Parvo Virus, or are showing symptoms), our success rate is about 90%, which is much better than the 50:50 odds most vets will give your sick dog. The remaining 10%, where it is harder to beat the virus, is made up of:

* puppies that weigh less than three pounds
* imitators of Parvo (i.e. diseases, viruses and bacteria that create symptoms that look like Parvo, but aren't)
* those puppies who have recently been wormed or vaccinated.

For healthy dogs, our success rate is close to 100% (i.e. it's as though the dog was never infected by Parvo in the first place).

So, what they're saying here is that you should buy this shit, and treat any dog that DOESN'T LOOK SICK and that will cure it of the parvo that's lurking in the system. But for crissake don't VACCINATE the dog, or treat it for worms, because that will worsen this product's chances of working, and almost certainly kill your dog. Oh, and if the dog does get sick and die, it's not our fault, it was probably some "imitator" disease and not really parvo anyway, so sorry.

Are these products cost-effective?

Vets charge an average of $100 - $300 to put a dog to sleep, whereas if you bought our products, you might spend $250, including overnight shipping, and be able to treat up to three dogs.

If you took your dog to the vet for Parvo treatment, you can easily spend $500 to over $10,000 per dog and only have a 50:50 chance of survival, whereas if you spent $200 on our products, you would have a 90% or better chance of a full recovery and be able to treat multiple dogs at home using safe, easy-to-administer products with zero side-effects."

That is total bullshit. The only way we charge more than $100 to euthanize a dog is if we are doing an at-home euthanasia: house call, mileage, drug, tech time, doctor time. Instead, you should order this crap for $250, wait 3 days for it to get there in the mail, pray your dog doesn't die in the mean time, waste another 2 days trying this crap that won't work, and then bring the dog in when it's too far gone for the vet to do anything about it, and BLAME THE VET when the dog dies.

Incidentally, elsewhere on the page, they claim that the product is safe because it doesn't involve using needles to administer it.

*descends into incoherent swearing and mumbling*