It will be instructive to watch how the SPCA deals with this in the age of the internet. In the past, even the recent past, parvo was endemic to SPCA facilities. It was treated as a chance to kill every dog...sort of a clean sweep and a fresh start, though accounts from SPCA directors and volunteers tell of unchanged cleaning practices and recurring outbreaks month after month, year after year. The public brought in their dogs, and unknowingly, handed them over to SPCAs full of disease.

The SPCA even seized healthy animals from people on the grounds that the animals were sick - "in distress" - and then really did make the animal sick, itself causing the distress that it was charging the owners with. Some of these poor "heroically" rescued animals died of SPCA-induced disease. The media hears all about the heroic seizure and nothing about what happens to the animals after that.

Parvo is treatable, but it takes some real dedication and money of course. Real animal welfarists don't kill for treatable disease.