Do you have other dogs around? I’d just stay away from dog parks and other dogs for awhile. Unless you’re playing w lots of other animals I’m not sure it’s a huge concern otherwise

Parvo is more prevalent in some areas than others - ask your local vet about this. In general, as long as you keep your puppy away from areas where other dogs are or have been, you should be fine. Be sure to get the rest of the recomended vaccines!

Ive had dogs all of my life and never gone through all of that.
As others have said wait till their shots are complete to socialize and I wouldn't even worry about the shoes unless you are walking somewhere that you are stepping in dog poop LOL

I only brought my pup to places where I knew the other dog was vaccinated (family’s house) and I made sure she didn’t run around on strange grass (concrete and flooring only) until she had her 16 week shots. Otherwise, she was fine! No dog parks or neighborhood walks until all the big vaccines were done. Didn’t need to do anything special at my house. Good luck!!

I'd be more worried about the puppy getting the Clorox towel or something than bringing parvo on on your shoes

We just got a new puppy, we have 2 dogs at home already and a granddog that comes to visit, not zero concern but other than mopping our floors twice a week with a robot and every other week with bleach/lysol, we didn't do any other prep for him. We were more worried about our existing dogs getting worms from the puppy but after the vet visit, he came back healthy.

I brought Beau home at 15 weeks. So it really wasn't something I worried about at that point. I had no other dogs at the time. Six months later I brought home a toy poodle who was five months. Same story. I almost always bring my dogs home when they're older.

We also live in a parvo high risk zone! Some tips:

-Don’t use harsh bleach on the floors, use REScue disinfectant (meant for doggos/safer and more gentle, won’t ruin your new floors, kills parvo). We got the wipes and ready to use disinfectant bottles.

-Take off shoes and keep near entrance or just outside of entrance door.

-Everyone washes hands before touching pup/clean clothes

-Your outside area: either you have a controlled disinfected area like turf, rocks, pavers etc or you just have the pup go outside and wipe their paws with the REScue wipes

-When getting vaccines at vet. Keep REScue wipes ready and hold your pup or keep pup in a sling, carrier, stroller, etc. don’t let pup touch the vet floors.

-Speaking of which! Buy a dog stroller, we bought one off Amazon. Stroll around with pup inside so the pup still gets socialized and acclimated to the scary outside world. Bring pup into a place like Home Depot in a sling or carrier, etc. (parvo is NOT air-borne, pup has to lick a surface with the virus to potentially get sick)

-After the second vaccine (~10 weeks shot, two weeks later vaccine kicks in) most likely pup will be fine, don’t do dog parks or any of that yet but you can start puppy socialization/obedience classes with other vaccinated pups.

You’ll be fine!!! It’s astonishing how many other dog owners do not care and bring their 8 week pup into a neighborhood park and I do not recommend this at all but they all somehow are just fine

I bought home 2 Bernedoodle puppies in March and I have two ten year old Cavapoos. Parvo never ever crossed my mind, however they both had to be treated for Giardia. Good luck, relax and enjoy your new family member. Congratulations!!!!

We brought our puppy home at 8 wks, about 4 mos ago. Parvo was definitely on my mind a lot until we were fully vaccinated. We traveled a lot during those early months and he was with us so we just planned ahead. Our puppy was specifically acquired to be trained as a therapy dog for my pediatric practice (to replace our retiring therapy dog) so a ton of socialization is/ was needed daily, early and on going.

Our vet said no unfamiliar dog interaction, no walks, not on the ground in public as much as possible. So only met our older dog at home and my parents dog in the new puppy phase. We didn’t go for any “on the ground walks” until we had 3 of the 4 shots (with vet approval). Only really was in our yard and my parents yard on the ground in those early weeks. Carried him around to meet people, and he didn’t interact with other dogs. We got a puppy stroller and that helped so he would be everywhere and see everything- we looked nuts but everyone was just happy to meet a puppy and understood when we said he hadn’t had all of this vaccinations yet. Also got some large sized puppy pee pads for outside use when we were traveling and I would put that down on the ground and he could go there instead of being in the grass where a bazillion other dogs had been.

He’s now been fully vaccinated for a couple months and has been everywhere and doing everything. It was a long slog and I was counting the weeks until he had all of his shots, but we made it through.

Congrats and best wishes!

I was cautious of it, but not terrified. We let her potty in the backyard and that’s the only ground exposure she had. No walks in the neighborhood or parks until she was fully vaccinated and cleared by the vet. Our vet even said if you need to get her some exercise to go to a business park or somewhere dogs don’t usually go and let her run around. Make sure to keep her exposed to new experiences and consider a dog stroller.

That's funny my breeder said that to us too and TERRIFIED me of parvo for our baby! In our area they were seeing an increase so we were just extra cautious....not as cautious as they said - Clorox at the front door wiping shoes - but we did stop wearing shoes in the mud room/house.

Kept ours home except for vet trips until funny vaccinated. But we didn’t do anything extra than usual for cleaning. We don’t generally wear shoes in the house.

I wouldn’t panic but I would avoid other dogs and public spaces.

Well not to scare you but I was so worried about my puppy getting parvo and he did, from petsmart, he was fully vaccinated and we was going to obedience training, that is the only place he would have caught it, I didn't take him anywhere in the first 6 weeks I got him, I was mortified when I saw blood in his stool, I immediately called the vet and got the ball rolling to get him checked and sure enough he was postipve for parvo, the bleaching of my entire home began and my entire back yard. He got an immunoglobulin shot at the recommendation of my breeder and it helped keep him from getting worse. The vaccine company paid all my medical bills, they took ownership of their vaccine not protecting my puppy, its the worst stress I have had to endure. Stay safe! Really watch their stools I got lucky!