hi guys... thank you for your kind words again.... i'm still heartbroken and i'm not sure if i'll ever get over him...
but... yeseterday.. i've picked up nami... here is a
short clip of her soon after i picked her up...
as soon as i saw her, i felt so happy... it has been a hard week and she indeed brought smile to my face...
she was so small (i knew she was going to be on small side... but not this small..) ... and so girly looking.. maybe especially with her topknot... and long hair that kupo didnt have...
we went back home asap and offered some water and food and she ate them all and drank most of the water right away... she must have been really hungry...
we went to the vet couple after to get her checked out... the breeder i got from said she was healthy, and had no flaws, perfect bite, perfectly leveled back, but just that she was small..
but with our vet, she was found to be healthy.. weighing 2.45 lbs at 5 months... thankfully... with a good bite... and leveled back... but she was found to have luxating patella... possibly grade 2 or 3 on her left leg... when i heard this... i broke down again... i was worried about her and i felt so lied to... and i was so scared since kupo was healthy and he passed way with that incident.... i was paranoid when i found out that his back was slightly roached but this made me freak out way more than that....
when i mentioned this to the breeder, she then told me this...
"Good to know she looks healthy.
One of her patellas was not as firm as the other but in movement did not show any problem. Not lifting her leg or limping, nothinh.
She was going up and down the few stairs as the others.
If it is very bad usually you can see it from earlier puppy age.
Most patella promlem dogs walk with roach back.
Nami's back is super level
Means no pain in the rear..."
and that before she actually shipped nami and got the vet to check her, the vet said that...
"one of her knees was loose but her ligaments can get stronget as growing. By experience this kind of knee does not give much problem to a small size dog.
Im not saying this is the ideal. But even with club rules in most countries it is still breedable but choosing a mate with good stable knees. Breeding is about progression. You always breed for better but the perfect dog does not exist."
this so pissed me off.... she basically hid this from me.. and she knew what i was going through too... but more than anything i'm now worried about her knee... we are going to go in and get her checked again by the regular vet and the specialty vet possibly next month to make sure... but other breeders i've been talking to were telling me that sometimes if its low grade lp, they may improve... but is this really the case? i really feel like everything is going so wrong this week...
with her knee being like this at such a young age... what should i be looking for? she is not limping, and she is not showing any visible signs of those with luxating patella and even the vet said so.. it was just based on what she felt..
also... she has not been eating much after her first meal when she came... and is not moving much... she just wants to sleep.. i know that is expected, as for wanting to sleep... but what do i need to do about her meals?
i've bonded with her already and i do NOT want to give her away even if she has a guarantee, since she is my responsibility and i do not like the ideas of just throwing/giving away the pet just because they have a problem.. even if she only has been with me for a day...
oh... also... eventhough she ate all her food when she first got here, she only ate maybe not even half of her food later on yesterday.. and maybe only 6 kibbles this morning... *sigh* i've also been giving her nutricals... i'm not sure if she's shaking cuz she's scared of us.. or cuz of her low blood sugar... she seems to be doing better a bit now though... she's laying on her back asking us to pet her... which is an improvement...
with such a small puppy though... what am i to expect..? kupo was way sturdy looking than her, and we are not sure if we can even play with her as we did with kupo... i'm still not over him and i'm so scared something may happen to her especially cuz of her size...and her knee... the vet was trying to tell me that not all small puppies have health issues... but kupo was perfectly healthy and that happened so it didnt really help...
i'm sorry for such along post again and that if my thoughts were jumping around everywhere... i'm still distressed and i really can't think straight.... and thank you guys in advance...