Officials are also contacting vendors of the vaccine and are trying to get details about the shots. The company is contacting the customers Channel 9 spoke with. On Friday, Tractor Supply officials told Channel 9 they’d received only one complaint from the Lancaster store about this issue, left by someone who didn’t give a name. The vaccines have to be kept refrigerated, but it’s not clear yet what happened, or if there was a possible manufacturing issue.īelk and Hinson said they always give the vaccines quickly once they buy them to ensure they remain cold. Then I give them the shot and the next day, started dropping like flies,” Belk said. There wasn’t a thing wrong with these pups. “All of them were big, playful, fighting, running. Belk said the only one in perfect health is a puppy that didn’t get the shot because he didn’t have enough of the vaccine. “I gave them (the shots) Saturday afternoon and by Sunday, five or six o’clock or so, I had a pup sick,” Belk said.įour of the nine have since died. James Belk raises Kentucky Walker hounds as hunting dogs.

The male puppy died within hours, and the female slowly recovered.Īt least three other people told Channel 9 similar stories after buying and using the same vaccine from the same Tractor Supply store. However, when she vaccinated her two puppies last month both became sick within days, and a vet told her they had parvo. “For 20 years since I’ve been raising dogs, that’s where I’ve always gotten my shots from.” “I’ve always trusted Tractor Supply,” she said.

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