After visiting alot (ALOT) of pet stores, and not finding what I wanted, a friend of mine told me her dads friend's dog (can this get anymore confusing) had a liter of puppies, and he was just giving them away.
So I became the owner of a beagle puppy, (sorry pic is so crappy, these are old)
Cute little thing. In her puppy phase she was such a pain. I just assumed she would outgrow it. She did, but it took forever, and she still has her moments.
When she was two, and just six weeks after I had given birth to child Uno, I put her in her crate, to take my child to the well baby check-up. She ate a good portion of her bed. (which i didn't know at the time) The next day, she was not acting like herself at all. She was not eating, very sleepy, and snapped at me when I tried to pick her up, take her outside.
So I left her alone the rest of the day thinking she just needed rest. The next day there was no improvement. I called her vet, said I really felt she needed to be seen that day, and they let me bring her in.
She spent over 5 hours that day with the vet, and I won't tell you how much I spent on her, but they could not find anything wrong. Suggested I take her to an emergency vet for overnight care. So thats what I did, dropped her off at the recommed vet clinic and went home.
I arrived at the house, and needed to feed the baby, get him bathed and dressed for bed. I get a phone call, the vet had to do explatory surgery ($$$) and had found a blockage. Oh and by the way, while we were trying to sedate your dog, she managed to bit, and rip a piece of her ear off, so now she looks like this. Well this was the day we brought her home. The collar was so she couldn't lick her incision from the surgery.
That was a pretty darn big chunck of her ear. Now she's even bigger, and healthier. I'll chase her down with the camera to get a new updated picture of her, as now I have none.
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