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| MEET: ISIS => Ruby (boxer/rottweiler mix?) |
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| STATE: CT AGE: 4 weeks DOB: 7/20/09 WEIGHT: 3 lbs? SEX: Female NEUT/UTD: No/Soon COAT COLOR: Brown/black/white DOCKED TAIL: No CROPPED EARS: No CHILDREN UNDER 4: Yes CHILDREN OVER 4: Yes SEPARATION ANXIETY: No OTHER DOGS: Yes CATS: Yes CRATE TRAINED: No HOUSE TRAINED: No LEASH TRAINED: No OBEDIENCE TRAINED: No MICROCHIPPED: No ADOPTION FEE: $250 (includes $50 refundable spay deposit) |
| ** Note- because I am a baby, I will need to go where someone is home alot- stay at home, retired, work at home, etc. |
| UPDATE 12/17/09 - Ruby was starting to smell ripe so she had a nice bath today. She was scared at first but got comfortable quick. Ruby will begin obedience training next month. We are hoping this will help eliminate her biting. She loves to cuddle and gives lots of kisses too. She has learned that fetching her toys is a fun game. She has been great with #2 outside. We are still working #1. She has quickly become a member of the family. UPDATE 11/17/09 - Ruby continues to grow and thrive with our family. She has received all but her 2nd Lyme vaccination. We are due to go in the next week or so. She is eating well and we are doing much better with housetraining. We aren't there yet but I hope soon to be. Ruby and I went to a puppy consultation and we learned a few ways to handle jumping up and biting. It was really very helpful. Ruby has become a sort of mascot with the neighborhood kids. They just love when we go for walks to the bus stop and around the neighborhood. Live is good in the Saunders household! UPDATE 10/14/09 - Ruby has adjusted very well to our family. She has been a delight from day 1. We don't have any other pets to worry about. Ruby is our 1 and only. We haven't taken any vacations but we have taken her with us in the car when we would be gone from home for an extended period of time. Ruby has been to the vet. She had a bout of worms and she has been treated and it seems to be resolving nicely. The vet said she looked good, her coat is shiny and healthy. She has a great appetite and is gaining weight. We haven't started obedience training yet, she is still too young. We do have a puppy consultation scheduled for Monday October 19th and obedience training will start in late November once is at least 18 weeks old. We don't really have any fun stories yet but she sure loves to get past the baby gates and upstairs. We have her baby gated out of the living room and upstairs (carpeted areas) until house training has been achieved. I think that is all for now. Talk to you again next month. 9/14/09 - I was adopted today! 8/12/09 - I will be trying to do a photo shoot of Diamond and each of her puppies. I know everyone is wanting to see some pictures. They really do RUN and do not stop. It will be a challenge but I will certainly give it a shot. They are so cute. I call them the itty bitty beasts. They are so FAT. They have huge heads and all make this ferocious sounding growl. It is so funny as they have no teeth. They think they will gnaw you lol. Too cute. Isis is doing great. Gaining weight quickly. Her weght today is 2 lbs/ 15 oz (itty bitty). 8/10/09 - We will be ready to go home on 9/14/09 when we turn 8 weeks old! 7/30/09 - Its been 10 days since the puppies were born. They're twice the size they were when they popped out. They are quite talkative, especially when they get separated from each other. Their eyes and ears still haven't opened, but they seem to know what's going on around them. Isn't Nature just cool? We had a scare the last couple days. Some of the pups stopped eating and were pretty lethargic. We lost one and were devastated. Then I noticed that others were having other problems, so there was a fast trip to the vet. Nothing seemed wrong, tests all negative... it just happens to puppies, I'm told. But, she gave some of them fluids for dehydration, antibiotics and dewormer to cover all the bases. I also started dropper feeding the weaker ones puppy formula when they still didn't want to nurse. Unfortunately, I lost one more (two males), but the others really seem to have turned a corner. Now everyone is nursing like crazy. They've had two days of antibiotics and seem perkier. I've also given in to Diamond's insistance that they be in my bedroom closet. She seems much more relaxed... so whatever helps, I guess. Some of the bigger, rolly polly pups have even ventured out into the room. I found one sleeping in the middle of the floor just like the grown up dogs. Diamond doesn't even care if the other dogs in the house come and sniff, nudge, and watch- but she's not too pleased if its the other female. Sooooo, fingers and toes crossed that the rest will stay healthy! 7/20/09 - The puppies are here! The puppies are here!!! Early early this morning, Lady Di (Diamond) gave birth to 8 beautiful puppies!!! There are 5 males and 3 females. They're brown, black and everyone has some white somewhere. There are two I call "the twins (top R corner) and as you can see, some have black bandit masks. One has white socks and one has white boots (she's going to be the litter's ring leader [aka stinker!], you can already tell after 12 hours). Diamond is such a wonderful mother. She cleaned everyone and keeps them huddled all together near her belly. They're a bunch of screamers, but she answers every single one of their whimpers. Good job little girl! 7/18/09 - Our girl is getting HUGE! I think I'll be a foster nana by this time next week. I update her new family so often, I forget to update everyone else on here! This is one happy little girl, lemme tell you. She's never met a soul she doesn't like. She's so calm. Of course, right now, she can't be very hyper because her body gets in her way. Laying down is a kinda three-step process that starts with her back legs and moves its way up her body: Her back legs stop moving whilelher front legs keep going until she is strectched out far enough that the belly hits the floor. Then she flops over onto her side. Poor thing actually moans in her sleep if she's not stretched all the way out. She's an awfully little girl for having so many pups inside. I joke that we're making our own "designer breed", the Boxweiller... (I think all these hybrids out there, that we used to call "mutts" are just silly lol). I can't wait to see what these little guys look like. White? Black? Checkerboard? She hasn't started nesting or anything yet. I'm afraid she'll be giving birth on my bed because that's her favorite place. She's picky about eating, right now, so I try to fine a time when it looks like the pups are quiet in there and not kicking her in the stomach. She'll lay on her side and you can actually see one roll over. Every now and then, one little head or paw will rear up and it looks like a scene from the movie Alien right before they hatch!! Its SO COOL to feel it happen, though! I'll have my hand on her belly and a little something will poke me, or one will roll and there will be a ripple against my palm. neat.... We should start a baby pool. Some time in the next week..... 7/7/09 - Little Diamond made it up here to Maine over the holiday weekend. She's probably THE sweetest dog I've ever met! That bigger picture above is her trying to convince me to give her my burger after she'd finished hers. She's about 2 or 3 weeks from having her puppies. We verified her great health with the vet on Monday morning. We got an x-ray of her and counted little teeny spines- the doc thinks there are 6, the tech thinks there are 9, I'm being neutral and think I saw 8. All I know is that the house is about to get VERY crowded!!!! We suspect that the baby daddy is a young rotweiller with whom she was kept in a garage for a few months after their owner abandonded them. (You should have seen her stare at the rotweiller who walked into Pet Quarters!) Between this beautiful girl (with her perfect white coat and face that looks like she's wearing eye liner and lipstick) and that handsome boy, these pups are bound to be wonderful!!! Get those applications in!! Diamond, herself, already has a home to go to when she's weaned the pups and been spayed. Sorry.... |
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