Day 26

This is me waking the Treble up to eat. Usually as soon as I start talking to him he hops up and starts running around the box. He must have been extra tired right then, notice what he does when I mention eating! To understand just how awesome it is you have to know what the vet told us waaaaaay back when he was a day old. The first thing she told us was that he couldnt nurse therefore he couldn't live. She said that tubefeeding ALWAYS killed puppies and that she had tried to raise a litter of cleft puppies while she was in college and had to euthenize them later. Then she said that the cranium and the kidneys develop at the same time so his kidneys probably didn't work, he chose that moment to pee on her. She said it was because he had been born less than 24 hours before. Trust me, his kidneys are still going strong. Yesterday he pee'd on two different people. Next she said his toungue was too big, it wasn't shaped right, it was clearly deformed... his toungue looks fine to me. If it is a little bit big it helps with forming a little suction since his lips can't. The final thing we had to wait to find out about was his hearing, she said that because he was white he would probably be deaf. If you watch the video you can tell that there is NO way that he is deaf. She ended by saying that there was probably a whole bunch of things wrong with him, but he was so strong it would be a shame to put him down. Her suggestion? let him go home and try to nurse and since he couldn't after a day or two he would get weak and mom would push him away and then we should take him back to her and they would give him a little gas. I am so glad that we disregarded everything she said, instead he came home with me and at 3 1/2 weeks he is going strong. We are not out of the woods yet, but if something happens from here out it probably will not be his kidneys, his toungue or his hearing.