Had to take my Lucy to the vet today.Not sure what's going on, she went off food Friday evening. Didn't eat anything until Sunday. Just dinner and I have to hand feed her., I think she's getting better..Vet is culturing her urine sample, will know if it's a bladder infection in 24 hours..checking for diabetes....please don't let it be diabetes....
Lucy and I don't need that at this point....:(
Monday, April 4, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
April 1, 2011
Eleven years ago I fell in love with my very first dog ever...she was born May 30, 2000 in the back yard under the patio. We we're invited to a BBQ, the family's dog was in labor and delivering. The owner let her dog outside between births to potty and out popped Lucy on to the patio floor. All the women we're euuuuuing and running so I scoped up this little baby still in the birth sack, broke the sack and started rubbing her. She wasn't into good of shape, not breaking well and had lots of water in her lungs.We did puppy cpr on her for the next hour and eventually she started breathing better. How could I not want this little pug in my life, so 7 weeks later Miss Lucy came to live with us. Pugs are known to be the "clowns" of the dog world, and from my experience they are just that. We went to obedience school, we take walks together, Lucy sleeps with us burrowing under the covers each night. She potty trained in 3 months, she was sitting and fetching with in 12 weeks. She has been the healthiest little pug her whole life. My family has taken to calling her my "shadow", Lucy follows me every where I go. When my husband and I go on vacation the kids tell me that Lucy's ears and tail droop for the first 3 day and will not eat..but after the 3rd day she starts getting better.
Miss Lucy is not the typical looking pug, she has long skinny legs and her face is not as smashed in as most pugs face are. She's not as heavy and stocky as most are, but that's good, it's better for her health.
Eventually my family grew up and kids started college and I began to feel the empty nest..So I though well how about if I buy a "show quality pug". I could start going to conformation classes and on weekends travel to shows..I though that would give me an outlet and keep me busy.
For the next two years, I did my homework and search for a "show quality pug" and found one that the breeder was willing to sell me. You know that you have to give your "first borns soul" as collateral insuring that you are a responsible pet owner. That you own your own home, have a fenced in backyard and have been married to the same person for 100 years. Needing to show to the breeder that you are a very stable "forever home" for their puppy. Which I did all these things lol...The breeders contract's state that the puppy is shared with the owner on the AKC registration form until it has achieved it AKC Championship in conformation. If I didn't follow the word of what was written in the contract, she the breeder has the right to come and back the puppy back.
Thanksgiving weekend of 2006 my Abby-Rose was delivered to her "forever home". We stated weekly conformation classes, I joined the pug club and life was good. We took a family Christmas picture that year with all the family animals included. I work with Abby on potty training. I bought kennels, I bought x-pens, I bought more toys, I bough show leads, I bought a wheelie card to wheel the kennel and Abby into shows. I bought special shampoo, I bought special cream rinse. Finely I entered her in her first AKC show which was held in my home town. Six weeks before her first show she started to limp on the right back leg. Off to the vet we went. They checked her completely over, not petellias they were tight...I thought maybe she had pulled something because she was always jumping up and down in her x-pen in the mornings before I could get her food into her, and when I came home from work. The vet gave her some puppy motren, and was told to keep her confined as much as I could.This kind of scenario went on for the next 3 weeks, with me taking her back to the vet because something just wasn't right. I called the breeder to come and take a look and see what she thought was going on. She took one look and said we need to get her into UCD small animal clinic. I'd like to tell you that everything ended well, but it didn't. At the time (4-years ago) there was/is a condition in pugs that can develop that at the time was known to be genetic by the name of PDE (pug dog Encephalitis) it was thought that there was a 1% chance of developing PDE..so with $4,000 in medical bills later Abby was diagnosed with PDE and I had to euthanize her on March 28, 2007. I entered Abby's tissue into 2 different PDE research study group that was taking place. She didn't show classic symptoms of PDE which were severe seizures, what the study learned with Abby was that it depends on where the elisions form in the brain that determines the symptoms..Abby's elisions formed in the back of her brain hence the spinal column and legs. UCD changed how they evaluated pugs with PDE because of her, she was the first to show this kind of elisions.
Eight months later the breeder bought another pug, but was over whelmed with taking care of her father who she was taking care of at the time. We decided to share this new pug, with the guarantee that she would put my name on the AKC registration. Junebug would live with me and I would drive her to conformation classes and she would work with her there and show her. This relationship went on for 6 months, until the time that Junebug started having seizures and I rushed her over to UCD small animal clinic. The breeder and I decided after 24 hours to take Junebug to her vet and we we're able to stabilize the seizures.Once stabilized with medication we decided to place her in a loving home. Junebug did well but still had health issue and some break throughs with seizures. Junebug lost her life last summer to a condition called MSG (granulomatous meningoencephalitis). In the 8 months she lived with me the breeder used every excuse she had as to why she hadn't put my name on June's registration..so when she became sick, the cost was on her and I had to take June home to live with her..I could not go through this kind of sickness again.
One month later this breeder returned my initial money and we went out puppy hunting. I bought Annie, who came from a breeder in the area. Annie came from a litter of 9, hence "Millpond's On Cloud Nine", with the call name of Annie. One year after I bought Annie she started limping on her back leg...off to vet again I go.
LUXATING PATELLA, with a complete patella reconstructions, and then all the allergies started. I was told I could still show Annie but not to tell anyone about her surgery.All the vets advised me to not breed her because this lauxating patella is genetic, and the same with allergies. So what does that leave me with...my third show pug that is genetically flawed, thousands of dollars of vet bills.....and a show pug that I bought in good faith that I can't breed. Not that breeding was a priority after seeing all the genetic health issues, but when you buy a package and you only get a third of it..something is wrong.
I have since decided to stop keeping quiet about pug health issues...I speak out about all the health issues I have faced, from three different reputable breeders, Junebugs father was number 2 pug in the nations, Annie's half brother this year took breed and group/3 at Westminster 2011.
This year the a PDE/DNA test has become available to pug breeders, the two breeders I bought my Abby from are still insisting that if their dogs come back negative for PDE then Abby didn't have PDE.. When I have 2 separate necropsy reports stating that Abby had PDE. This past week Annie's breeder de-friended me on FB with my comment on all Annie's allergies and stating to my friends to not buy show pugs. Now if she was going to throw a tan trum about something it should be about the luxating patella Annie has...
All I'd like is to catch a break for once on my luck with show pugs..........
Miss Lucy is not the typical looking pug, she has long skinny legs and her face is not as smashed in as most pugs face are. She's not as heavy and stocky as most are, but that's good, it's better for her health.
Eventually my family grew up and kids started college and I began to feel the empty nest..So I though well how about if I buy a "show quality pug". I could start going to conformation classes and on weekends travel to shows..I though that would give me an outlet and keep me busy.
For the next two years, I did my homework and search for a "show quality pug" and found one that the breeder was willing to sell me. You know that you have to give your "first borns soul" as collateral insuring that you are a responsible pet owner. That you own your own home, have a fenced in backyard and have been married to the same person for 100 years. Needing to show to the breeder that you are a very stable "forever home" for their puppy. Which I did all these things lol...The breeders contract's state that the puppy is shared with the owner on the AKC registration form until it has achieved it AKC Championship in conformation. If I didn't follow the word of what was written in the contract, she the breeder has the right to come and back the puppy back.
Thanksgiving weekend of 2006 my Abby-Rose was delivered to her "forever home". We stated weekly conformation classes, I joined the pug club and life was good. We took a family Christmas picture that year with all the family animals included. I work with Abby on potty training. I bought kennels, I bought x-pens, I bought more toys, I bough show leads, I bought a wheelie card to wheel the kennel and Abby into shows. I bought special shampoo, I bought special cream rinse. Finely I entered her in her first AKC show which was held in my home town. Six weeks before her first show she started to limp on the right back leg. Off to the vet we went. They checked her completely over, not petellias they were tight...I thought maybe she had pulled something because she was always jumping up and down in her x-pen in the mornings before I could get her food into her, and when I came home from work. The vet gave her some puppy motren, and was told to keep her confined as much as I could.This kind of scenario went on for the next 3 weeks, with me taking her back to the vet because something just wasn't right. I called the breeder to come and take a look and see what she thought was going on. She took one look and said we need to get her into UCD small animal clinic. I'd like to tell you that everything ended well, but it didn't. At the time (4-years ago) there was/is a condition in pugs that can develop that at the time was known to be genetic by the name of PDE (pug dog Encephalitis) it was thought that there was a 1% chance of developing PDE..so with $4,000 in medical bills later Abby was diagnosed with PDE and I had to euthanize her on March 28, 2007. I entered Abby's tissue into 2 different PDE research study group that was taking place. She didn't show classic symptoms of PDE which were severe seizures, what the study learned with Abby was that it depends on where the elisions form in the brain that determines the symptoms..Abby's elisions formed in the back of her brain hence the spinal column and legs. UCD changed how they evaluated pugs with PDE because of her, she was the first to show this kind of elisions.
Eight months later the breeder bought another pug, but was over whelmed with taking care of her father who she was taking care of at the time. We decided to share this new pug, with the guarantee that she would put my name on the AKC registration. Junebug would live with me and I would drive her to conformation classes and she would work with her there and show her. This relationship went on for 6 months, until the time that Junebug started having seizures and I rushed her over to UCD small animal clinic. The breeder and I decided after 24 hours to take Junebug to her vet and we we're able to stabilize the seizures.Once stabilized with medication we decided to place her in a loving home. Junebug did well but still had health issue and some break throughs with seizures. Junebug lost her life last summer to a condition called MSG (granulomatous meningoencephalitis). In the 8 months she lived with me the breeder used every excuse she had as to why she hadn't put my name on June's registration..so when she became sick, the cost was on her and I had to take June home to live with her..I could not go through this kind of sickness again.
One month later this breeder returned my initial money and we went out puppy hunting. I bought Annie, who came from a breeder in the area. Annie came from a litter of 9, hence "Millpond's On Cloud Nine", with the call name of Annie. One year after I bought Annie she started limping on her back leg...off to vet again I go.
LUXATING PATELLA, with a complete patella reconstructions, and then all the allergies started. I was told I could still show Annie but not to tell anyone about her surgery.All the vets advised me to not breed her because this lauxating patella is genetic, and the same with allergies. So what does that leave me with...my third show pug that is genetically flawed, thousands of dollars of vet bills.....and a show pug that I bought in good faith that I can't breed. Not that breeding was a priority after seeing all the genetic health issues, but when you buy a package and you only get a third of it..something is wrong.
I have since decided to stop keeping quiet about pug health issues...I speak out about all the health issues I have faced, from three different reputable breeders, Junebugs father was number 2 pug in the nations, Annie's half brother this year took breed and group/3 at Westminster 2011.
This year the a PDE/DNA test has become available to pug breeders, the two breeders I bought my Abby from are still insisting that if their dogs come back negative for PDE then Abby didn't have PDE.. When I have 2 separate necropsy reports stating that Abby had PDE. This past week Annie's breeder de-friended me on FB with my comment on all Annie's allergies and stating to my friends to not buy show pugs. Now if she was going to throw a tan trum about something it should be about the luxating patella Annie has...
All I'd like is to catch a break for once on my luck with show pugs..........
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