ColdDeadHands
07-28-10, 20:59
We recently had a litter of German Shepherd Pups consisting of 5 healthy males and 1 healthy female...or so we thought.
This is Trooper, the only female pup out of the litter.
http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz170/mw1311/Puppies/DSC_0188.jpg
http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz170/mw1311/Puppies/DSC_0192.jpg
I named her Trooper because she truly is one! Sunday evening we were getting ready to deworm the pups and as I open the door to the Bathroom I see the Female pup with something long & bloody hanging out of her belly and dragging the ground! Blood everywhere! Her hernia ripped open. She acted like nothing happened and still wanted to play with me!!!
We wrapped her up and took her to the emergency Vet in Conroe. We thought the intestines were hanging out all chewed up but the Doctor said he thinks it's just abdominal fat.
Hours later after he finished surgery on her he told us that it was just fat but he had to cut it (because it was in bad shape - I believe her brothers were chewing on it) and stitch it together. While he was busy with her he noticed a birth defect; the diaphragm was not grown together and the liver was in the wrong spot. He corrected everything and said that she will be just fine but she would have died for certain if the Hernia wouldn't have ripped and if he wouldn't have found what he did. The lungs would have collapsed.
We will keep Trooper around till she can be spayed before we sell her so she won't be bred. Now I need to sell my Noveske to pay for the ER bill!
This is Trooper, the only female pup out of the litter.
http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz170/mw1311/Puppies/DSC_0188.jpg
http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz170/mw1311/Puppies/DSC_0192.jpg
I named her Trooper because she truly is one! Sunday evening we were getting ready to deworm the pups and as I open the door to the Bathroom I see the Female pup with something long & bloody hanging out of her belly and dragging the ground! Blood everywhere! Her hernia ripped open. She acted like nothing happened and still wanted to play with me!!!
We wrapped her up and took her to the emergency Vet in Conroe. We thought the intestines were hanging out all chewed up but the Doctor said he thinks it's just abdominal fat.
Hours later after he finished surgery on her he told us that it was just fat but he had to cut it (because it was in bad shape - I believe her brothers were chewing on it) and stitch it together. While he was busy with her he noticed a birth defect; the diaphragm was not grown together and the liver was in the wrong spot. He corrected everything and said that she will be just fine but she would have died for certain if the Hernia wouldn't have ripped and if he wouldn't have found what he did. The lungs would have collapsed.
We will keep Trooper around till she can be spayed before we sell her so she won't be bred. Now I need to sell my Noveske to pay for the ER bill!