Today Jellybean is 13 years old! I can remember that harrowing Easter Sunday whelping like it happened only last week, but all's well that ends well, and she is still hale and hearty at the ripe old age of 13 She is going a little deaf (or else she just doesn't care what we are saying to her and ignores us totally) but aside from that, and normal slowing down, she seems to be doing just fine.
Here she is this afternoon, enjoying her birthday marrow bone.
What else is going on? 4 of the puppies have left now, and it seems that bad girl Hootie may be staying. Who can resist such a bad puppy girl? Whenever there is trouble, you know that Hootie is going to be in the middle of it! Saturday afternoon she ran through a big mud puddle in the back of the yard, and when Marc picked her up, she kicked him twice in protest and he was covered in mud - he had to go change - we couldn't stop laughing, she is SO BAD! Nobody else would want a bad puppy like that, right?
Was Jelly's litter the one where Cassie went into shock and needed blood transfusions? That's the only harrowing litter I can remember, and I was still living at home 13 years ago....
by Michelle (PM , CC ) on Wednesday April 9, 2008 @ 9:15 PM
No, this was Easter Sunday afternoon, and Dr. Brian was hiking up in the Litchfield mountains and it took him two hours to get to the office. Lisa's uterus had ruptured, and he had to take out all her intestines, etc, and rinsed them off with saline solution to try to clean out her abdomen as best he could. In the meantime, Lisa was spayed, a dead pup was removed from her uterus, and Jellybean was floating around in her abdomen, miraculously alive! Brian was very worried about major infection, but Lisa sailed right through, was on antibiotics for 10 days, no infection, and was perfectly fine after that.
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She is going a little deaf (or else she just doesn't care what we are saying to her and ignores us totally) but aside from that, and normal slowing down, she seems to be doing just fine. 
Who can resist such a bad puppy girl? Whenever there is trouble, you know that Hootie is going to be in the middle of it! Saturday afternoon she ran through a big mud puddle in the back of the yard, and when Marc picked her up, she kicked him twice in protest and he was covered in mud - he had to go change - we couldn't stop laughing, she is SO BAD! Nobody else would want a bad puppy like that, right? 
