Happy Birthday, Keira!

**luvofallhorses** · 12-23-2008, 05:52 PM

Happy birthday gorgeous Keira!!!

It looks like your party was quite the party.

**ramanth** · 12-24-2008, 10:21 AM

Happy Birthday Keira!! Looks like a fun party.

**Casper** · 12-24-2008, 05:27 PM

Happy (late) 1st Birthday, beautiful Keira!
Glad to see you got to celebrate in good company; I really enjoyed seeing the pictures of everyone having a great time!

**wolf_Q** · 12-25-2008, 11:04 PM

Happy Birthday Keira! She really has matured into a beautiful dog!!

Just curious, do you still have Morgan?

**Tollers-n-Dobes** · 12-26-2008, 01:10 AM

Thanks everyone! She had a good birthday.

Amy, no. I kept meaning to post about her here, but put it off a lot for fear of reactions that I'm going to get. Might as well get it out though! I guess it's not much better to have people thinking she's just disappeared forever. She had a lot of major psychological issues, and ultimately we had no choice but to put her down. She was living a terrible, awful life. We knew when we got her that she had fear problems (figured with a lot of socializing and training we'd improve that), but as she got older, she got worse and worse to the point of not being able to learn anything or function properly. She'd sit in a corner shaking and frothing at the mouth all day long if she heard the slightest noise or if she felt you looked at her 'wrong'. She lunged at the other dogs and eventually family/people too. She couldn't go outside if there was even a slight breeze. She'd panic - pacing, frothing, shaking, and tried to dig really deep holes or leap the fence. It was horrible. We sought professional help to no avail. Nothing worked. They as well as our vet and our friend who does Dobe rescue and breeds Dobes think she was just "wired wrong" (as they put it), as she was physically healthy. It was just a horrific situation for all involved, including her. I know the majority of people on PT will probably not agree with what we did... but we knew our dog and did what we could.

**WELOVESPUPPIES** · 12-26-2008, 06:39 AM

Good grief has it been a year already? I remember you posting her and her litter mates as babies. She has grown into an absolutely gorgeous girl.

No judgement from here....I think if you had exhausted yourselves in trying to give Morgan a good life and get her help and nothing was working you made the right decision. She obviously had issues beyond repair whether it be "wired wrong" or just something from in her past that traumatized her forever. You cannot jeopardize others in the household, fur and skin alike. She is now free from all her fears and issues.