Hello Barkley, Yes, You are indeed lucky to be alive thanks to your human parents. If not for them, it sounds as if you would not have made it. I hope that person who put you in a cage with big dogs is no longer selling puppies. People like her do not love animals. Now back to you Barkley, what a cute little puppy you were and now you are one handsome big boy. I hope you have many more happy healthy years with your human family. Congrats on being DOTD!