Well Megan had her 5 puppies sept 19th...we planned on keeping a chocolate girl for a second pet and to breed from.
All have their own personalities...we have one black boy who has always been the one that got picked on...poor baby...and I just fell head over heels in love with him!
So we decided not to keep the chocolate one and stick with the black boy...we have called him Banjo...B.J for short.
He developed a cough yesterday morning and seemed a bit blue and down. We separated him from the others and kept him with us the whole time. It got gradually worse overnight to the point I had to rush him to the vet first thing this morning. I was crying like a baby They took him straight in and put him on oxygen and asked that I leave him there for x-rays of his chest.
It showed that he had alot of fluid on his lungs and they have disgnosed pnuemonia He is still at the vet now having pure oxygen to help him breath, and they have asked us to have him overnight in a cage as they have no nurses on duty overnight. The cage is because when he wakes he wants to run and gambol but it affects his breathing too much.
They have said the outcome is poor for him, so I'm glad to have him home with me....but I'm heartbroken.
I never realised it would be so hard to breed pups...you get so attached to them all.