Granny's gone and done it again

[h2oratt]

We found our 5 in a small prefab shed. Nice and snug. With a nice sized run for them to play in. When DH found them they were happy, fat and covered with mud. He came home upset, very upset and asked what were we going to do? He told the owner that he was going to talk it over with me and be back in the morning...oh! And they had stopped feeding them. 3 month old puppies. The Father had told the son that he wouldn't give them any more puppy food so the son found a dead road kill rabbit and a dead goat kid they had to feed them. And when I say feed them, he had thrown the dead animals whole in the pen for them to gnaw on.

I was upset as my husband was and when he said, how do we choose one or two and walk away from the others? I told him I would pray about it and hope God gave me an answer by morning. Next morning first thing DH said to me was 'Well? Do you have an answer?' and without hesitation I said, let's have breakfast and go rescue 5 puppies. They were asking 25 dollars apiece for them. I asked him what he would take for all 5 of them and he said 25$. I handed him the cash and we loaded up the little heathens and brought them home. No socialization, as wild as March hares. We lost one, my sweet Sidney to Pythiosis when she was a little over a year old. Very rare parasitical infection that is always fatal. If you are curious about it look up Swamp Cancer or Pythiosis. Close as we can tell she contracted it by swimming in our pond or a smaller pond that was behind our barn. Her 4 sibs are immune to the infection. Thank God.

I like to say the surviving 4 are works in progress even at the age of 5 but considering the rough start they had in life I think they are doing fantastic.

I hate puppy mills and wish they would close them all down. I do know that Missouri has really clamped down on them lately.

I have heard horrible stories about Amish puppy mills. But there are just as many horrible mills that are not Amish. Dogs need to be socialized. Dogs that bite are sentenced to death sentence.

 

[lovesfarms]

I missed what happened to this dog?

I never saw anything happen. One morning she yelped and couldn't jump on the easy chair. She curled up in the corner and for awhile wouldn't get up. I hoped she strained her leg but it continued happening. I noticed that bunny gait but hoped it wouldn't mean anything. Cavaliers have a lot of genetic illnesses. I wanted to make sure it's not fractured, can't really ignore a puppy in pain. The vet suspects it's the beginning of a bad hip. He was able to feel it and she had a limp. Right now it wasn't showing on the X-rays but we didn't pay extra to get a technician to read it. Her labs were fine. When she sees the leash she shivers really bad. We will see if she will take supplements and be more careful with the kinda of exercise she gets and if she has more pain after the two weeks, go back to the vet

 

[h2oratt]

Lol, such a purist! It's for the dogs, Twist but you prob'ly know that by now.


Can you label them or put color code strips on them to make them easier to id?

I don’t even like giving to my dogs but the pill pockets are just as bad.

 

[h2oratt]

I never saw anything happen. One morning she yelped and couldn't jump on the easy chair. She curled up in the corner and for awhile wouldn't get up. I hoped she strained her leg but it continued happening. I noticed that bunny gait but hoped it wouldn't mean anything. Cavaliers have a lot of genetic illnesses. I wanted to make sure it's not fractured, can't really ignore a puppy in pain. The vet suspects it's the beginning of a bad hip. He was able to feel it and she had a limp. Right now it wasn't showing on the X-rays but we didn't pay extra to get a technician to read it. Her labs were fine. When she sees the leash she shivers really bad. We will see if she will take supplements and be more careful with the kinda of exercise she gets and if she has more pain after the two weeks, go back to the vet

Did he check her for a bad knee or torn ACL?

 

[h2oratt]

We found our 5 in a small prefab shed. Nice and snug. With a nice sized run for them to play in. When DH found them they were happy, fat and covered with mud. He came home upset, very upset and asked what were we going to do? He told the owner that he was going to talk it over with me and be back in the morning...oh! And they had stopped feeding them. 3 month old puppies. The Father had told the son that he wouldn't give them any more puppy food so the son found a dead road kill rabbit and a dead goat kid they had to feed them. And when I say feed them, he had thrown the dead animals whole in the pen for them to gnaw on.

I was upset as my husband was and when he said, how do we choose one or two and walk away from the others? I told him I would pray about it and hope God gave me an answer by morning. Next morning first thing DH said to me was 'Well? Do you have an answer?' and without hesitation I said, let's have breakfast and go rescue 5 puppies. They were asking 25 dollars apiece for them. I asked him what he would take for all 5 of them and he said 25$. I handed him the cash and we loaded up the little heathens and brought them home. No socialization, as wild as March hares. We lost one, my sweet Sidney to Pythiosis when she was a little over a year old. Very rare parasitical infection that is always fatal. If you are curious about it look up Swamp Cancer or Pythiosis. Close as we can tell she contracted it by swimming in our pond or a smaller pond that was behind our barn. Her 4 sibs are immune to the infection. Thank God.

I like to say the surviving 4 are works in progress even at the age of 5 but considering the rough start they had in life I think they are doing fantastic.

I hate puppy mills and wish they would close them all down. I do know that Missouri has really clamped down on them lately.

Are they aggressive to people?

 

[h2oratt]

How anyone can breed dogs and then if they haven’t sold just quit feeding them, I cannot understand. There is a special place in hell for these people.

 

[lovesfarms]

Did he check her for a bad knee or torn ACL?

He didn't say if he did but they did several X-rays and redid them after she squirmed to much.
The smaller of the 2
***Edit- it always seemed to happen after an attempted jump. She was still running around the yard 2 days ago

 

[Granny Hatchet]

51 and raining. Up to 59 today.
Tom. What to do with Tom. For his own safety.

Robert took his cane away from him and hid it forcing him to use the walker

 

[lovesfarms]

Robert took his cane away from him and hid it forcing him to use the walker

You feel horrible doing things like that but sometimes it's the only way. Chances are he will get upset but may blow over quickly.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Nancy took me to lawranceburg to pick up my MRI disk because the surgeons office said they still hadn't received it from the Drs yet. I just told them what I was there for and they handed it to me. No ID,name, nada