Well, my wife's little parvo survivor has made it home finally. I thought that he was about 28 lbs, I was wrong, at the vet he weighed 33. He is a huge pawed, long legged, big ribcaged, little bundle of sparks. He will be 4 months old on the 19th, can anyone tell me if he is on track growth wise? I thought that he would be slightly behind due to the parvo, but he looks REALLY healthy. Tammy, you said that they were real fighters, this one is as sweet and happy as you please, but he gets spun up at my GSD, and he will not allow any dominance. Luke just looks at him and knocks him over with a hip. He goes flying, gets up and gets crazy, it can be so funny, but I have made sure to work on this a little. If they play too rough then they are both headed for the kennel until everyone calms down. They seem to have caught on, and after the 3rd day here they are normalizing a bit. The 1st day was nuts. I had asked a few questions since this whole ordeal started and alot of tyou took the time to answer my questions, Thanks.
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Tammy, he is sweet as honey. He is ALL over the place though, little booger. What I meant was that he was enough of a scrapper to survive the parvo and comeout of it growing like a weed. I think that he has put on another 4-5 lbs since we brought him home a week ago, we have shifted both dogs to Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice Large Breed Puppy so that we can just leave it down and they eat when they want to eat, the lady that was fostering him had gotten him used to this, so I have just kept it. Luke eats when he wants anyway, but I will say that even his eating has improved because of the fact that there is someone else that will eat if he doesn't. As for Jack (Dobe) , he is just a highly spirited sweetie that I am going to have to get a handle on by speedily getting one of Ed's DVDs to stay ahead of. I was not sure which one to get though, the puppy DVD or the Basic Obedience DVD. I have Luke too and if I am going to do one of them then they are both going to have to learn some better rules than Luke currently has.
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The pup Jack goes to the vet again on Tuesday. When they looked him over this past Monday he was at 32.5 lbs. I am betting that he is growing a bit quickly, therefore I switched his food to a Large Breed Controlled Growth formula. I just want to make sure that he doesn't have joint problems from this rapid growth spurt. With the Vom Wildebrandts my vet told me that he would need a vitamin K shot before any surgery to aid in clotting, therefore when I went looking for food I went with an eye towrds which food had vitamin K activity in it, Nutro was the only one that I found. Hopefully this diet will at least aid him should he manage to hurt himself at the lake or something. His stitches from the neutering come out this Friday, and I have seen no bleed throughs on them yet, seems to be healing perfectly. He had some swelling a day after he got here, but that has went away too.
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Hi Kevin, we feed Nutro with excellent results...
Re: VWD, I wouldn't rest on a blood test... it could cost you unnecessary $$$$$ for the rest of the dog's life. Quite frankly a VWD blood test is notoriously unreliable. Go with a DNA cheek swab and know for sure!
Tammy.
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