Let's get everything straight:
1.) Yes, of course I emailed a picture of Bennigan settled into his new home with his brother.
2.) When he ate chicken on his own, I was so happy because that was the first time he had eaten on his own. But eating a little baby food with chicken doesn't constitute a healthy puppy, as he quickly returned back to not eating.
3.) You told me you were having to force feed him, and that I would continue to have to do so until he was over 16 weeks old. He wasn't eating when you sent him home with us, you said that you all took turns taking him home and getting up in the middle of the night to syringe feed him.
4.) Yes, my vets originally
thought it was pneumonia because of his breathing problem. The necropsy later showed it was due to the mineralization in his lungs from renal failure.
5.) I mailed a necropsy
months ago and never got a response.
6.) I would never want another puppy from Millionaire Mutts. I have a puppy report showing that Bennigan's mom had given birth to another sick puppy, a year before Bennigan. The other puppy had Kennel Cough and a skin disorder where its hair falls out. Yet they still bred his mother. The other puppy was sold in a pet shop in FL. In my OPINION, this sounds like a puppy mill (as only a puppy mill would send puppies to pet stores in Las Vegas and Boca Raton, FL.)
LINK:
http://www.petshoppuppies.com/report.asp?ID=73A1893
~Extra Details: Bennigan had been at the vet hospital for days before he died. They discharged him once, but when his condition worsened we rushed him back. He had been at the vet hospital overnight and stable, but there he went into shock and died.
I am posting the Colorado State University Necropsy.
As you can read in the necropsy:
Diagnosis:
Kidney: Renal dysplasia with metastatic mineralization.
Lung: Metastatic mineralization with atelectasis
"The degree of mineralization present within the lungs is severe enough to result in clinical dyspnea and respiratory distress and undoubtedly clinically mimicked pneumonia."
I am posting the necropsy so you can read for yourselves. Information about Renal Failure (Taken from AKC.org) "Renal dysplasia is a developmental or genetic defect of the kidneys. This makes it quite different from common forms of kidney disease which occur in adult or aged dogs and from other diseases and/or drugs which may cause inflammation of the kidneys and abnormal results on blood and urine tests of kidney function. Dogs affected with renal dysplasia have had an embryonic arrest in kidney development at some time around birth. The immature nephrons normally found in young puppies persist throughout life. Also, some nephron units do not develop and are replaced with fibrous tissue. There may be diffuse interstitial fibrosis in the cortex and medula, reduced numbers of glomeruli, dilated and hypoplastic tubules, and a variety of sizes of glomeruli. The disease is found most commonly in Shih Tzu and Lhasa Apsos, although it is also present, with less frequency, in several other breeds.
The disease usually progresses in three stages, each of which may have a variable and independent time course. Stage one is the silent destruction and loss of nephrons over a period of months and years in the absence of symptoms. Stage two occurs when approximately 30% of functioning nephrons remain and clinical symptoms (excessive thirst and volume of urine, weight loss, lack of vigor, and intermittent loss of appetite) are first obvious. This stage may persist for months or years. In the final stage, vomiting, weakness, dehydration, and severe debilitation are added to second stage symptoms, and death from renal failure (uremia) is the eventual outcome."
Thank you to all of my wonderful Yorkie Friends for supporting me and allowing me to share my experience.
