Of all the things that could happen!

I just talked to my son Bryan and Abbey has a broken leg!

When I was over on Saturday I felt a lump on her left front leg and it worried me, I was afraid it was broken. Sure enough he took her to the vet today and the two long bones were broke, but not at the growth plates. ( Thank God!) One has knitted fine, the other hasn’t met up together yet, so they splinted the leg. The vet was optimistic about the outcome as she is not limping( she plays like any puppy does), is not sensitive to pressure and the leg seems to be growing fine, but it would be weaker if those two ends don’t meet up….he feels it happened early on, possibly even when she was born, being the runt, or some rough play could have done it too. We will never know.

It looks like the left leg is shorter but it was just the photo….but you can kind of see there is two lumps on the upper left leg….one of those is not suppose to be there….

Bryan talked to the breeder and he said he would take her back and give him a pup from the next whelping….but everyone has told him what the breeder would do with her. And it isn’t good. We are all attached to this sweet little girl. She has a splint and in 10 days they will check it. The x-rays showed that it is still in the healing process.

How in the world could you let this pup be put down?????

As you can see in this photo, the leg looks the same length…..

She is here to stay….and Bryan will deal with the outcome, but his reasonable puppy just cost him double! If you believe in prayer for animals please put Abbey in your prayers…..we want her to be around for a long long time!

My Very First Grand puppy !

I wanted to introduce you to my new grand puppy!

This is Kit ( so far), she is a registered English Pointer. My son Bryan has two friends that are in a pointing hunt dog club and they got him hooked on this breed….

Her color is called “Lemon” and the only color she has right now is on her face. her entire body is white, but that will change with time and she will get what they call “ticks” of color….like this dog:

They come in three or four colors, but you can have whole litters of just one!

These are all “lemon”, they come in black, liver and lemon.

They are natural bird dogs and it starts when they are pups…..

This one is a liver pup.

This is what they are bred to do:

This will be a great group of people to get out with, two of his friends own these dogs and other hunting dogs and one is a trainer, so she will have a great start! But more importantly she will be his buddy!

She doesn’t look too happy in these photos, first day away from her litter mates and Mom, but I will get more photos today! Look at those paws! She will end up about 50 pounds or a little smaller, she was the runt. I am so happy I have a grand baby puppy to show you all! :):) I can’t wait to love on her!

P.S. New Development! My son wasn't crazy about her name, so I suggested "Abbey" and it stuck! It fits her to a T ! She is small ( the runt) and very feminine! So Abbey it is!!!!!