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Jed's puppy pictures
Jed was born with a small slit in
his upper lip. It must have felt
funny for his mother when he nursed, because by the time he was two days old,
she refused to let him nurse. Because
of that, Jed was bottle fed.
He went with us everywhere. With a puppy-diaper bag and
cardboard box he went - to the store, to work and he slept in a baby wading pool
in front of our pellet stove.
Just like an infant, he woke up ever few hours to eat.
My husband and I took turns on “night puppy detail”.
As you can imagine, he is now very well socialized and people oriented.
At 15 weeks old, Jed was old enough
to have his small lip split cosmetically fixed.
Three weeks later, he went to live with one of the employees at the Vet
Hospital who fell in love with him while he was in having surgery .
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Jed was born, he was the heaviest puppy. But his lip prevented him from nursing on Mom. After loosing 1/3
of his birth weight, we started bottle feeding him. It was touch and
go for a few days but he held his own. Then at 5 days of age he started to
gain weight and he went from 9 oz to 12 oz in just 3 days. By the
time he was one week old, he was back up to his original birth weight and
hasn't taken any backward steps since then. |
When
Jed was 2 weeks old, he was still really frail looking. Although he
was gaining weight, it wasn't as quickly as his brothers
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At
3 weeks of age, Jed was beginning to put some weight on. He still looks
tiny though |
Jed
is the most advanced of all the puppies. He was the first to start
walking and was the first to crawl out of the baby pool that he called home
for the first 4 weeks. |
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the time Jed was 5 weeks of age, he was starting to look like a
"typical" cattle dog puppy. Although still physically
smaller than the other puppies, he is the leader of the pack! |
At
6 weeks old, Jed continues to keep pace with the rest of the
puppies. |
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8 weeks old, Jed is looking like a little cattle dog now. It is
wonderful to see the progression he made in such a short time. |
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| Jed,
pictured above at 4 months old, wearing his e-collar (aka cone and lamp
shade). He adapted surprisingly well to it and liked use it as a
tool to go bumping against things. After the first couple of
days, it never slowed Jed down. |
Jed
bumped into a couple of things he shouldn't so some of his stitches popped
loose. So he went back into surgery at 4 months old to get the
original stitches removed and new ones put back in to clean up the nose
area. Here he is (on the left) after his second surgery. |
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| This is how
Jed looked the morning of his surgery to correct the split lip. We
thought he was cute then... |
Here is Jed the
following morning. He is really cute now! While he was under anesthesia,
he was also neutered. |
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