Just a Baby

[mydogrocks]

I've become really close with Ares breeder and I've been helping with her most recent litter. Yesterday there was a family that came to view the litter and (even though she was told not to) the mother handed the puppy to her daughter who dropped him right on his head.
They were very sorry and left quickly, but a few hours later the puppy started acting strange; refusing to eat and unsteady movements. We took him to the E-Vet who said he might have serious damage to his spinal cord. We were told to monitor him and were planning to take him to his normal vet for xrays in this morning. He spiked a fever and was taken to the vet where he went in to respiratory destress and passed away shortly after.

I'm so sad and angry right now, he was a tiny baby hardly 5weeks old and he's never going to get the chance to grow up because the mother wouldn't say no to her daughter.

[juliejujubean]

o my goodness, I am soooo very sorry, that poor pup. i would make the mother of that child pay for these hospital bills, a young child should not be picking up a young pup... This really breaks my heart.

[doggiedad]

maybe, just maybe, someone on your team
should have said no to the mother and not
allowed anyone to handle the pups. when the mother
handed the pup to her daughter who was monitoring???

[katieliz]

how terribly tragic and what a painful lesson to learn. mydogrocks, you are blaming the wrong person tho. the responsibility lies with the breeder/owner. no one should have been handling five week old puppies. actually it's would be better if no one even visited puppies until they're older than barely five weeks. you can never totally control the behavior of others, you must control the environment of the dog(s).

bless this little baby's heart. no matter the question of responsibility, i am so very sorry.

[Sunstreaked]

I am so sorry that happened, mydogrocks. A tragic accident.

[Mrs.K]

Hey, maybe this is not the place to play the blame game on the breeder.

It happened and can't we all just be sad for the owners. It was a terrible accident so please, don't play the blame game, blaming the breeder.

[Sunstreaked]

Originally Posted by doggiedad

maybe, just maybe, someone on your team
should have said no to the mother and not
allowed anyone to handle the pups. when the mother
handed the pup to her daughter who was monitoring???

I gotta hand it to you, doggiedad, you've got a real gift there.

[selzer]

I am really sorry this happened. I feel for everyone involved.

When do you start socializing them to children and other people? Five weeks old is pretty big. In fact, it was too large for my sister's kids when she first brought them over. The next time, I made sure they were smaller, so that they would not scare the kids so much. I think this was just a tragic mistake from a potential buyer not listening.

a few photos of kids handling young puppies (20 days old):






4 week old pups:




These puppies are younger than the puppy that died. I think it is awful that that happened, but I do not blame the breeder. It was an accident. I thing at some point you do have to subject the puppies to children, and hopefully have some control over it.

I put the blanket down in the pen, set the girls on the blanket, had them sit, and then added the puppies, I had them wait for the puppies to come up to them, and then, carefully, I let them stand up and walk around the puppies. Even when you know the children VERY well, they can be somewhat unpredictable.

ETA: boy those girls changed a lot between August and April. My sister has the same jeans and shoes, LOL.

[arycrest]

I'm so sorry to hear about the baby ... it's really sad!!!

[FG167]

That's terrible and heartbreaking.

The puppy/child pics are precious!