Boxer Pup Update

Boxer pup pictures!
http://picasaweb.google.com/amber.luttrell/NHBoxerPups

This wasn't posted sooner because these poor puppies were in no shape for photographs. I come home to five TINY 9 week old puppies. These are boxers?! Are you SURE? They were so small they could stick their heads through the chain link fence. Then I get closer... and see big wormy bellies, no muscle or fat on their little bodies, large bald patches of missing hair or scabs. These poor babies. After I get in the pen with them it's obvious the scabbing / hair loss is not sarcoptic mange (whew!) but while investigating scabs to see if there is puss (gross, but wanted to know if they need antiobiotics) it turns out the brown patch between one's eyes is not a scab but FLEAS. TONS of them! I break out the flea meds immediately, all the puppies are that bad. The next day I start the worming schedule (once a day for 3 days) and take pictures. So you still see wormy bellies, but at least no active flea infestation!

Now I'm working on getting them to Little Rock. Unfortunately now the foster home says she'll be gone from July 15-20 and asks if I can keep them. No way, I have dogs waiting for my space as it is. So wish me luck on filling 4 legs of a transport HOPEFULLY July 10th or 11th!