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Well now we have a new problem.  My friend can no longer keep the pup.  The breeder wont take it back and her husband wont let her keep it. 

So even though 5 months pregnant my husband and I  are probably going to have a new member of our family tonight.  I know that I am going to regret this but I cant let an 8 week old perfectly healthy puppy get put to sleep.  That is what everyone has decided on.  Vet included!!!!

Her husband decided that it was too much money to put into a "dog".  All he needed was about 40 dollars worth of meds for 15 days.  Then go see the vet agian.  I think that it is ridiculous that they spent 400 dollars on a pup and now they are just going to put it to sleep the first thing that happens. 

I told her all the things that have happened with our dogs and how much money they are probably worth from surguries to allergies to everything else.  So in about an hour we will have a new 8 week old Wiemaraner.  It is a boy so I will need help to find a name.  They had had him 2 weeks and hadnt named him yet so any suggestions? 

ok My friend just recently got a puppy weimaraner.  The puppy is 8 weeks old.  She has had it for about two weeks now.  Well on friday night the puppy started to cough.  It would cough until it gagged and nothing would come out.  The chest was very clear and there was no drainage from the nose or eyes. 

 Well the next morning on Saturday she took the puppy to the vet.  She said it wasnt her usual vet because the vets at the practice take turns on saturday.  Well she waited there for an hour with the pup and they then took her back to a room.  The vet came in looked at the pup and I guess because it wasnt coughing at the time said that there was nothing wrong with it and that the coughing would pass.  He held the puppy up to his ear and said no the chest sounds fine!!

Well taking the vets advice they went home with the pup and it started to act a little more normal but still coughing.  Yesterday the poor little puppy wouldnt eat or drink.  She said that she was cooking everyhing in her house trying to get it to eat something and it wouldnt touch it.  He simply laid on his bed and slept most of the day and only woke up to go to the bathroom. 

Well this morning took him back to the vet and her regular vet was there.  He took a look at the pup and said that there was nasal drainage he was weezing and they ended up admitting him for observation. 

I was eondering what in the world could this be?  It progressed so fast.  We thought maybe kennel cough but she has two other dogs and neither are coughing.  We also thought maybe allergies because the pine pollen is very bad right now but wouldn't he get releif from being inside?  Let me know what yall thnk

thank everyone so much

Yes I completely agree with everyone.  I really couldnt believe that he was asking this of me.  But I tried to talk to him about it and he was like if we get it now then it will be housetrained by the time the baby comes. MEN!

I told him that just because our two dogs housetrained very early(they havent had an accident in the house since they were ten weeks old) that it probably wouldnt go so well with a new puppy.  Also I told him that yes the puppy might be housetrained but it would be in the middle of teething when the baby came, chewing up everything and if I found a whole bunch of stuff chewed up I would probably loose it. 

But i feel like i am talking to a brick wall because right after our conversation then i found him online looking at pug breeders and when I asked him he was like well I would like to see who we will eventually get one from.(yea trying to be smooth)HELP!!!!!

she is very well trained she was suppose to be my husbands "hunting" dog so we did all the training with her for that. though we discovered that we fell in love with her so much I couldnt stand the fact that he was going to take her out in the cold to hunt. she is walked everyday.  so it isnt so much that she has alot of pent up energy.
 
I dont know if this will cause it because I know any new situations you need to train more but she was very good at not jumping and then about 6 months ago we bought our first home.  So we moved an it is much bigger than the last house we had the same amount of yard but the jumping got much worse.  Then a month later I found out that I was pregnant and we started training with her all over agian.
 
We started last night and are hoping that maybe the sit stay will work.  I know it wont be right away but i am trying.  Also I dont know if I should start with treats or without.  I get great results with treats but dont really want to have to wean off of them later. What do yall think?

we have our dogs trained that they have a specific "chair" to lay on which is just a red blanket on the ground in our den.  The only thing that worries me is that whenever small childern come over or anything like that they beg me to put up the "big" dog because she is rough with them. I was a dog trainer at petsmart and fortunatley got to take my pets with me everydayy so the exposure to kids was from day 1.  She is just rough with childern.  Knocks them over while going past them and jumps at thier face trying to lick them.  I am very thkful that she likes kids because I would hate if she didnt i think this process would be alot harder but she likes them so much that I am a little worried about her.  We have uped the obedience and are trying to work with her on jumping but nothing is working.  Someone has told me to use a shock collar for the jumping but I am not sure what do yall think? 

i am trying to talk my fiance into keeping him!!!  But isnt going so well because we already have a deposit for a baby pug.   

My best friend called me last night ans told me about this breeder that lived next door to her and had 7 chessies.  Well he ended up moving three months ago leaving 4 of the dogs there and all were from a litter he couldn't sell.  My friend has been feeding them about a week after the guy moved.  She has maaged to find homes for the three girls not the boy (who is by far the biggest).   She said that he is 7 months old and wieghs about 90 lbs.  He is Very sweet with kids.  she has a four and a five year old and the kids just lay on him.  He is very affectionate.  She said that everyone that comes out to see him loves him the most but realize he is just going to be too BIG!  I don't think that would be a problem here!