Peanut goes to the hospital

Over the past couple of days, PB's stools have become more and more diarrhea'ish. By this evening is was pure liquid and just constantly coming out of her like a faucet. She did not have control over her bowels. The poor doggie had this crazed look in her eyes and she was licking her back end raw. She is so little that I knew she was dehydrated and couldn't wait until tomorrow to go to the doctor. Michelle and I bundled her up and took her to the doggie hospital. They kept her there and put her on IV fluids. I wanted to cry. For starters, I felt badly for PB. She looked really bad and I knew she felt as bad as she looked. For selfish reasons I wanted to cry because now I have 5 baby puppies to feed and take care of. Maaaannn I so don't want to go through this.

dead puppy

Oh man, I so should know better. I should have either slept with Peanut Butter and her puppies, or let them sleep with us. I knew better. Instead, I put them in a big crate in another room, put my ear plugs in (grrrr I was so wrong), and went to bed. When Michelle got up this morning and checked on them, she brought a dead puppy to me. A skull-cap size of the head was gone and one of the eyes was bulged. My guess is it was born feet first and the head was stuck in PB for awhile. Since I wasn't there to pull her (yes, of course she was a beautiful girl) so much pressure built up in her, the top of her head blew open. It was horrible, like a horror movie.
The rest of the puppies are doing very well. Peanut Butter is a great mom.

puppies

We got 5 healthy cute Chihuahua puppies. I'll tell you all about it later. Right now I can barely keep my eyes open.

Another update

I absolutely love my prison job. It is so cool. This is the same prison where a couple pups I donated were trained. Let's see...what else is going on.

-Maureen went to her forever home. Although she did pass her hip testing, I decided not to keep her back for breeding. I love my day job and want to scale back my breeding program.
-DaVinci had surgery to remove some skin cancer. The vet says it is not hereditary and it is not something he could pass to his puppies.
-Francie did not get pregnant.
-Tucker is a daddy. He mated with a southern girl.
-Peanut is in labor. This is my first nondoodle litter and I'm excited.
-A neighbor brought over a Chihuahua last week. This little dog just wondered into his home through his doggie door. He has an 8 ft privacy fence. Now just tell me how she managed to scale that fence to get in his yard. I'll tell you what I think. I think Grandma died and the family didn't want to mess with her elderly dog so they tossed her into Travis' back yard. Travis (neighbor) has an immunosuppressed dog and couldn't keep a stray around. I took her thinking it wouldn't take too long to find her family. I carried her around the neighborhood talking to neighbors hoping someone would come running out saying "there is my baby". Well, not only did that not happen, I found a dirty matted stray Shih Tzu. One of the neighbors said they have seen him wondering around for a while. Man...what else could I do? I took him home. I kept him for a week before turning him over to the Shih Tzu rescue. They put him in a foster home and are going to adopt him out. In the time I had him I gave him 3 baths, worked out his mats, de-flea'd him, de-wormed him (he was crawling with fleas and his poo was crawling with wiggly worms), and gave him lots of lovin'. He was a friendly happy little guy and he will make a terrific pet. Unfortunately he is still intact and he and Bradly had a pee war going on. Anyway, back to the stray Chihuahua...well I'll save her for another post. Anybody want a chihuahua?
I'm sure there is lots more to tell, but I need to get up and get cleaning.