Some Puppy To Love

I'm glad I snapped a picture so I can show our vet how she looked at the height of her reaction. The minute I got up yesterday, it was already a Monday in every sense of the word. I was running late. My younger daughter was sick… again… for the 4 th  time in three months. My youngest did not want to get up off the couch and head out into the 29-degree weather to go to school. Neither did I. But we finally got out the door, and after I dropped him off at school, I ran some errands. On the way home, I got a text from my oldest daughter who was just leaving to make her 9 am class. It said, “What’s wrong with Django’s face?” I hadn’t noticed anything wrong with Django’s face before I left, but I couldn’t really remember looking at it either. I let her and  Hayley  out as usual at 6am, then filled up their breakfast bowls when they came in and went about getting ready. I walked home a little faster than usual, and when I saw Django, I was mildly horrified. Her lips, eyes and b

Last year, when Cinnamon Muhlbauer learned of an abandoned home in which backyard breeding and hoarding had taken place, she went there to see what she could do for the dogs that remained, and what she found was startling. There were dogs all over being inbred and neglected. When  she found Rosie , her level of mistreatment (and disfigurement) was hard to absorb. After a thorough vet exam, Muhlbauer says that in addition to her visible issues, Rosie also suffered from a skin disease. Her  teeth were so oversized and crooked  that she could not close her mouth.  Here are some more of her physical problems: “To eat she had to scoop food backward into her mouth and roll it back and forth because her tongue was trapped in the back part of her mouth – there was no room for it to stretch out beyond her teeth in that crowded little mouth and there was no way to chew. When she was a few months old, her front leg bones stopped growing and fused where they met to compensate. She learned to walk