Virtual Breeding

The journey continues.........

Your house stinks of the stuff. You are trying to get the pups to spend more time outside. At 6 weeks you take them down the the vet who gives them the all clear and their first vaccination.

You seem to spend a lot of time on the phone now to the people who are getting a pup. All are very excited. Unfortunately, the excitement has gone out of the process for you.

You are tired.

You want your life back.

All you seem to do now is wash puppy bedding, deal with puppies, and try and figure out how you are going to pay back all the money you owe. And at work, they are still unimpressed by your absence when the puppies were born, and they certainly don't believe your excuses.

You're not quite sure which pup you are going to keep. You really like Foxy, but the other girl has really caught your eye. You decide that you will keep the other girl, as one of the new owners really likes Foxy.

Then, when the puppies are 7 weeks old, disaster strikes Foxy. She was the one that had you had worked so hard to save. She had a grand mal seizure (although you didn't know what it was called until after you had checked with the vet later).

She'd had a normal day like any other, and you'd put them all into their beds. At 11pm that night, you find Foxy in her bed. She is breathing, but she is frothing at the mouth. Her body is covered in saliva, and she is lying completely stiff covered in her own faeces.

Again you make a trip to the emergency vet. This time, you only take her. By now, you have this vet's phone number keyed into your mobile, and you race over. You know this route well by now.

Foxy is totally non-responsive, and breathing very shallowly.

The vet is not positive at all. She explains that with emergency c-sections, that sometimes the result is that the pup will have seizures later in life, just as Foxy was having now.

She advises you that in all possibility, Foxy has suffered permanent brain damage, and is unlikely to recover. You have the choice, either try and save Foxy, or painlessly put her to sleep now.

Decision Point

or,

Click here to try and save Foxy.

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