And that's another reason I don't feel like working with KyraOriginally Posted by 4 Dog Mother
I vowed from the beginning not to get involved with the puppies because I didn't agree with the whole breeding situation. I wasn't even home when they were born. Mini was bred to my Uncle's Jack Russell, Snickers...my dad believed that a dog is a better dog once it has had puppies. I did advise them to wait until she was 2+ years old and we did have a couple homes lined up in advance, which is better than nothing I suppose. After we had the puppies though I was old enough to start volunteering in the shelter with a parent so my mom started too. After that I think she really started to understand the whole over population problem, and after all the work with Kyra, has decided to never breed again.
Here are the puppies family reunion a couple years ago
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=96544
She still does have a cleft palate, but it's significantly smaller. No trouble eating or drinking but she can only ever have hard foods and plain water. The only time we are really reminded of it is when she goes swimming and sneezes uncontrollably. When she was little she used to get things (like food or leaves) stuck up there and we'd have to try to flush it out. Our vet, after we told her we weren't going to give up on her, refused to do her spay and told us the longest living cleft palate dog he saw lived to be 6. We would like to prove to him that she's as normal as any other dog.
As for being 3 oz, she fit comfortably in a cupped hand. She was TINY. It took her months to reach the 1 pound mark, when the rest of the pups were a pound within a week or two.
A comparison picture with Kyra and her brother Buddy and sister Jackie a couple days after they were born
And here's a picture with me and all of the puppies - minus Kyra.
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