Meet the newest member of my family. I would like to introduce Luna!!
She is a 6 week old mixed breed puppy that I adopted from the local shelter here in PV yesterday afternoon. With all the street dogs that we have in PV, I really wanted to do something meaningful. What better way than to donate and adopt from our local pound. There were so many adorable dogs to chose from it was dificult to decide if I wanted a puppy or a dog picked up off the street. There were some really adorable dogs that I would have considered, except that their owners had 3 days to come and claim them.
I've been thinking about this seriously for probably about 9 months to a year. Her mom has similar coloring and is a smaller medium sized dog and not very big. I have NO idea what her father looks like, so I hope she'll take after her mom's size. I fell in LOVE with her basically right away. She has a short stubby tail that she was born with, the rest of the litter had longer skinny tails and she has a little patch of coloring on the top of her head that kind of looks like a Moon.....hence the name.
Her first night home was very successful night. I read that if you plan to crate train, that you should keep them in the crate, but close to you. When they need to go to the bathroom, they will start whining. Sure enough….3 times last night we got up and we had successful pottie time on the disposable pad. She was a real trooper!!! This morning she wouldn't eat any breakfast or drink any water. This really had me worried. I thought maybe I was just overreacting after all she is only a baby. Sleeping all the time, but I thought aren't babies supposed to eat, sleep and poop???
I did a lot of research on how to potty train a puppy/dog when you work long hours. I decided that I would try "crate-training". I'm worried about my little girl when I'm gone for 18 hours or sometimes more at a time at events. If anyone has any tricks or advice, I'm open as I've always had pets that were outdoor pets.
So, after worrying majority of the day and trying not to break into tears as she hadn't eaten ALL DAY and her poop was well...not pretty. I took my little girl to see a Vet. He was the sweetest vet I have ever been to. He was patient with my Spanish as pet ownership which brings a WHOLE NEW vocabulary and he diagnosed her and helped to put me to ease. She weighs 1 kilo or approx 2.2 lbs. Dr. Pena diagnosed Luna with parasites/worms, etc which were passed from her Mom and that she was Anemic. She was given an oral injection for the parasites and he opened up a can of food and as soon as he opened it up, she started eating. This was a heavy lift. She was finally eating. I walked out of the Vets office with a gel packed full of vitamins, a can of yummy food, that obviously she LOVES and a powder solution to put into her water for electrolytes.
We'll go back next week for a check up and Dr. Pena will give introduce Luna to her first round of vacunications. Pobrecita.....
Her Puppy Meds:
Her first car ride home:
As I was composing this blog tonight I was looking around to find my little chica and she had made her way and snuggled up under my feet next to the couch. Asleep again....
Until next time..we are sending Greetings and LOVE from HOT AND STICKY PV!!! (yes..did I mention it's starting to get YUCK HOT!!)
