hey bella hey guys i have a crazy story to tell you um miss rosie here we just
picked her up from the emergency vet but let's get her settled and i will tell it
all right rosie girl we've got your area all set up we'll get you out in just a second
i know you are so happy to be home and we are happy to have you home with us
all right get you out of the crate and we'll tell your story say hi everybody say bella
all right guys so miss rosie has been on a whirlwind bella lie down
good girl we need to be able to see rosie so miss rosie has been on a whirlwind adventure
with a really harsh reality of what breeders have to go through sometimes so in eight years we've
had two puppies go to the emergency vet gypsy being won a long time ago rosie being the second
so i would say i think it was saturday morning we did nova's puppy picking everything was great
rosie was doing fine i did pick her up and notice that i felt like she was a slight bit
not as chunky as her brothers but to be honest i thought that that was just her not eating as
much kibble or just not being on the same weight track gain as her brothers the three brothers
so i didn't really think anything of it she was still playing she was still having a good time
but fast forward to after nova's puppy picking i went to go play with the puppies again
i picked her up and she was just lifeless she was laying her head down having a hard time
keeping her eyes open and so i knew right then that we had an emergency and we needed to go so
we got in the car right away and i started calling all the emergency vet places that i knew about
there's couple in greensboro that i know have a really good reputation
cvs was one of them carolina vet specialist and they were full so here i am thinking okay
i have to go find a new place and so i found a wonderful place called happy tails in greensboro
and they took us in right away first concern that they had was that it was parvo
so we had to get greeted with a lady and all a gown like all gowned up i couldn't go in
because they thought maybe that's what she had but she did not so parvo test takes about 10
minutes they checked that off the list right away she did not have parvo so then it is
doing blood work doing x-rays seeing if she has aspiration pneumonia like what is causing her
to have this failure to thrive um and so what they ended up finding out was that she had coccidia
which is a intestinal parasite and it can be transmitted litter to litter
dog to dog it can also be transmitted mom to dog like mom to puppy and so we were so close like the
vet was coming today actually she did the six week checkups for junes and zelly's and she would have
been able to catch that if we had done a fecal they would have found that coccidia in there
but for some reason um little rosie's body just couldn't fight it you know her immune system
was just too low or they just she got you know too weak and dehydrated to fight it off because
her brothers they're doing great they're doing fantastic they're running around hanging out
so what did that mean for rosie so for a while i would say 24 hours the vet the emergency vet was
like they would call and tell us it's touch and go
and that's like the worst news that you want to hear and this rosie already has a family
so i had to like keep in touch with the family and tell them like your puppy um is having difficulty
living i mean it's a really hard thing to tell people she wasn't eating she wasn't drinking water
so what they had to do was start an iv so you can see her little paws they got
shaved because she had iv placement on and they gave her dextrose which is sugar and then they
were just doing that for about 12 hours once she tolerated that and she wasn't throwing up anymore
then they moved on to syringe feedings and that was like with almost kind of like liquefied canned
dog food just to see if they could get her to do that and we're talking like two tablespoons
at a time like it very minimal just to make sure that she could tolerate it um and so in between
that they're taking blood glucose levels they're trying to get accurate blood pressures they're
doing all kinds of stuff just to make sure that her vitals were good and then finally she started
to turn a corner and i would say sunday evening um the vet tech that called finally gave us some good
positive news that she was lifting her head that she was starting to walk around
and it was just like a praise jesus moment because i mean for a good day and a half we felt like we
were going to lose her and we didn't want to you know it's just the worst feeling in the world
to be waiting by the phone and to not know what the next phone call is going to be
from from this emergency vet so i'm just so thankful that she was able to pull through
she's not a hundred percent out of the woods yet so today so sun monday morning which is today
um she got transferred to our traditional vet to do daycare and to make sure that she was
able to take the iv out and be able to have normalized blood glucose levels without um
that dextrose in there so that means that she had to start eating on her own and so she did and so
she is eating two tablespoons of get this cat food uh the cat food is the most uh pungent and potent
food that they could think of that they uh wanted her to try and so it's like fishy and it just i
guess it's supposed to really attract her um and so she has been doing really well she's eaten that
two tablespoons every two hours and so what that means is that we are going to be waking up about
every three or four hours tonight and tomorrow just to make sure that she is alert doing well
and making sure that she gets that extra food in and then during the day
every two hours we're going to be feeding her so we have her little pen set up here because
obviously she can't be with her brothers and sisters she can't her brothers she's the only
sister she can't run around and play yet so it'll be just her in here and i got her blanket
and we got her bed just to make sure that she stays comfortable and then i'm gonna grab her
a snuggle puppy so that way she can have a little friend in here but yeah we're just going to keep
you guys updated on how she's doing and hopefully in the next couple of days we can report that she
is 100 better and running around and acting like a regular six week old puppy so until then
bella will probably hang out with her some in here and just give her some love because she likes to
mother everybody so and then we'll just check in with you guys a little later but we did have some
other really exciting news so i want to show you guys that next while i let miss rosie rest
come on bella let's let her rest
hey shelly
how's our little surprise doing
hi
all right here is our surprise our little singleton one little boy
right shelly oh man we were so relieved that she had this puppy so
that's another story to tell so friday we were all ready to take shelly for a c-section
because her due date was officially on thursday which is nine weeks after their first breeding
so our awesome vets did such a good job navigating this navigating this delivery and so what they did
was they took her in we thought she was going to have the c-section they did a progesterone test
on her and i guess progesterone actually falls when they are going to go into labor so their
temperature falls but then also their progesterone does and so what happened is the progesterone went
to four but they wanted to be under four between two and four is okay but under one means it's like
perfect timing for that and that means that the puppy is ready to come out and so shelly was still
over four like it wasn't it wasn't even close they said so they sent us home but that's a friday and
so they said if she doesn't have it by sunday you're gonna need to find an emergency vet to
do a c-section so our choices were take the baby early and hope for the best that he's developed or
that she we didn't know if it was a boy or girl at that time that she is developed enough um that she
can survive outside the womb and for dogs a day or two makes a huge difference um it just it makes
let just helps their bodies stimulate and just you know it just makes them work properly they're
more developed so those are our choices find an emergency vet if she doesn't have it on sunday or
let's see if we can get to nurse or um go ahead and take the baby now so those are our two options
now as a breeder you're kind of stuck in a hard place because do we really want to find
an emergency vet not really but at the same time i didn't want to risk this little guy's
life by not by going ahead and taking them early so we just prayed and prayed and walked
and did everything that we could to try to get shelley to go ahead and go into labor
we walked a couple of times a day on friday we walked a couple times on saturday walked
a whole bunch on sunday but the great thing is is finally on sunday morning she started digging
at the mat and i was just like oh thank you jesus because that meant that hopefully signs
of labor were coming next um and just having one puppy they're just there's not a whole
lot of timing you know like there's just not a whole lot of time where she's sitting here
laboring um having such a heart like having like these legs shake or showing us contractions it
didn't happen like that it just happened so fast and so she was digging i came in here
we were just trying to make sure that she was comfortable and um so then finally after that
all of a sudden we just she started pushing she stood up pushed around for a little bit and then
out came the puppy and she took care of it right off the bat um and as soon as i could i went and
found out what it was and it was a little boy so we were just so happy that we didn't have to find
a vet to do an emergency c-section and just super thankful that that our little man was able to come
and so he's been doing really well he's nursing doesn't really want to nurse right now but um
gaining weight already from yesterday to today um and so we'll we'll do these first four
weeks together and then after that we'll think about the challenges of socialization with him
and um being around other dogs and we'll cross that bridge when we get to it so yeah we're just
super thankful that we had two amazing outcomes this weekend in a very hectic and chaotic time
of being a golden doodle breeder so last thing i wanted to show you today was that uh zelly's
puppies were gonna do their manding so they have this is day one for them to start on that um so
that should be really fun and so i'm gonna grab them and i'll meet you back in the living room
all right we have our spoon we have our first little man so these are zelly's puppies they
are six weeks old so give you a little taste and then we'll we'll work on our sitting
so normally i would say we would do this in the daytime but it is the evening now because
we had so many activities going on today they had their six week vet appointment
this morning with dr matherly she came to the house which is so awesome for us because
we're just even more excited that we don't have to bring the puppies out for exposure even at
the vet's office they can pick up things little bugs or parasites so it's just really exciting
for us to be able to have that service at our house instead of having to go to a vet's office
and then second we went and picked up rosie so that was another huge event
oh no we got to sit there you go but teaching these guys just the skill of manding it just
means that they are being patient and asking for something by a sit instead of jumping on you
um and so i'll explain that more when i come back but this guy did great
so i'm gonna grab another guy all right got mr green here oh he's so cute
i love his little boxy face looks like a golden all right give him a little taste
and now we'll work on the banding well first i got to get my clicker ready go back here
very good but like i was saying that manding is super important for families especially
with children because we don't want the puppy to come home be jumping all over everybody um
and it's just you know it's called manners being polite
there you go good for adults too but we forget a lot of times that
that it's a it's not okay for any dog to jump when they're babies and they come up to like your shin
we tend to let it slide because it's not really bothering us if a big dog like an 80-pound
standard golden doodle came up to us and jumped we wouldn't like that very much so it's important to
teach them young that they need to be patient and mr green is knocking it out of the park day one
man you go little puppy that earns you a whole bunch
all right let's see what your brother will do all right we've done two out of the three
all right last but not least mr black oh man you got a cute little tail wag yes you do
all right let you have a little taste and now we're gonna earn it
good job
gotta stay over here
good job but we'll do this once a day until they go home at eight weeks
and they get really really good at doing it where i don't even have to put them in
the position i might have to like take them off of me like if they put their paws on me
um but they will do the sit all by themselves to earn this little dog tweet
and people can continue the clicker training at home if they want to
baxter and bella uses clicker training for some of their courses
so that is really helpful for our families to keep on with that training
there you go
good job nope
very good all right he is going to lick this spoon until there's no dog food on it
and then i'm going to go finish the rest of my evening i'm going to clean the garage i've got
to check on rosie again we got to walk bella and shelly and just finish up our evening routine
but we will check in with you a little later in the week have a good one