Everything was going good

[rarefish383]

I was thinking about retiring my little dailey driver Saturn SC2. It has 211,000 miles and it's starting to show a little, but still runs great. I was thinking I'd get a new/used saw hauler. I checked out CL, and the first day I found a 2002 Chevy S10 with 48,000 miles that looks brand new. He was asking $5500 and we settled on $4,800. I figured I paid 10 cents a mile for the truck. It's a 4 cylinder auto, so it should get good gas mileage, extended cab, full bed with a hard cover so I can lock up my saws. That was good news number 1.

Then my sons Bernese Mountain dog had 8 puppies Sunday night/Monday morning. At three days 4 pups are sold at $1500 each. Good news number 2.

Then yesterday, the first little pup born died. My wife and I were heart broken. The pups weighed 14-16 ounces at birth and the little guy was only 7.4 ounces. We had him in puppy ICU, a heated bassinette, and bottle feeding. He was doing well for 2 1/2 days and was starting to nurse from his mother. We had the heating pad in his basket set on medium and he seemed happy, warm, pink and wiggley. Then the vet told my wife medium was too high, we'd cook him. So my wife turned it down on low. The next time she checked on him he was cold and turning blue. She got him warmed back up and he was nice and pink again, but it was too late. He died while I was holding him. Our Vet is super and she specializes in breeding, but she kinda made me mad by saying to turn down an arbitrary setting like warm, without checking the temp.

Anyway, my new saw hauler is under a foot and a half of snow, so I'll post pics tomorrow, if I get it dug out. If I can find an old Homelite box to put the puppies in, so I sort of stay on topic, I'll post pics of them too, Joe.

 

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I was thinking about retiring my little dailey driver Saturn SC2. It has 211,000 miles and it's starting to show a little, but still runs great. I was thinking I'd get a new/used saw hauler. I checked out CL, and the first day I found a 2002 Chevy S10 with 48,000 miles that looks brand new. He was asking $5500 and we settled on $4,800. I figured I paid 10 cents a mile for the truck. It's a 4 cylinder auto, so it should get good gas mileage, extended cab, full bed with a hard cover so I can lock up my saws. That was good news number 1.

Then my sons Bernese Mountain dog had 8 puppies Sunday night/Monday morning. At three days 4 pups are sold at $1500 each. Good news number 2.

Then yesterday, the first little pup born died. My wife and I were heart broken. The pups weighed 14-16 ounces at birth and the little guy was only 7.4 ounces. We had him in puppy ICU, a heated bassinette, and bottle feeding. He was doing well for 2 1/2 days and was starting to nurse from his mother. We had the heating pad in his basket set on medium and he seemed happy, warm, pink and wiggley. Then the vet told my wife medium was too high, we'd cook him. So my wife turned it down on low. The next time she checked on him he was cold and turning blue. She got him warmed back up and he was nice and pink again, but it was too late. He died while I was holding him. Our Vet is super and she specializes in breeding, but she kinda made me mad by saying to turn down an arbitrary setting like warm, without checking the temp.

Anyway, my new saw hauler is under a foot and a half of snow, so I'll post pics tomorrow, if I get it dug out. If I can find an old Homelite box to put the puppies in, so I sort of stay on topic, I'll post pics of them too, Joe.

Joe,

Sorry to hear about your pups. It's amazing how quickly one can get attached to a pet. Sound's like the truck deal was a good one. Here in CA the expected price for regular gas is supposed to hit $4.00 gal by summer.

I need Scotty to beam my logs around.:smirk:

jerry-

 

[betterbuilt]

Sorry to hear about your loss. I do Agree with you on the heating temp thing. I think that it's really hard to give advice over the phone. I'm sure her intentions were good. Sometimes things happen for a reason.:sad:

 

[dellwas]

Sorry to hear that the pup didn't make it. Hope you can post some pics of the others, wife and I adore Berners!

 

[BobL]

That's too bad about the pup, Hope the others make it OK.

 

[rarefish383]

My wife took the others to the vet today to have the dew claws removed. The vet said this litter was perfect and she was sure that with the small size of "Little Boy" there was something wrong with him. She's probably right. I'll get pics up tomorrow. I've been up almost 24 hrs again and I'm exhausted. Thanks for all the kind thoughts. I really wanted to help the little guy pull through. This was Macey's third litter and as soon as I saw him I knew something was wrong. We had to do CPR on him just to get him started. Thanks again, Joe.

 

[teatersroad]

bmd's are the cat's meow these days. when they get bigger be mindful of the intestinal twist syndrome big active dogs are prone to, some buds lost their bmd to that (someone else was dog-sitting him at the time)

could be the little one did not make it for other reasons, they are fragile. I'm about to breed my German Shorthair, hoping for a litter of 4-6 for quick placement of the whole brood.

cheers.

score on the rig, I bought a 10 yo k2500 low miler for $3500 awhile back - now looking at trucks I can't believe the high prices being asked -

 

[Garmins dad]

Sorry to hear of your loss of the puppy.. We lost a pup when our German wirehairs had a litter.. Poor little guy...

Can't wait to see pics of the pups...

 

[rarefish383]

Here are a couple of pics from the welping room. This is a few minutes after feeding and everyone is crashed out except Macey, and she's chilling out on the veranda.

I forgot I took a picture of the truck when I got it home, before the snow, so here's the one shot I got, Joe.

 

[SDB777]

Never knew that those pups were worth that much.....guess that's cause my dogs came from the Shelter or strays that followed the wife home? Three of those pups sold equals more then my 95Jeep is worth!!!

Congrats on the new ride!






Scott B

 

[rarefish383]

This is Macey's third litter and she has paid for one full symester of my daughters school each year. My breeder places all of the pups, she's well known in the Berner circle. We live in MD and have had people come from as far as Arizona for a pup. Three days after the pups were born we had two contracts and they were both from more than 300 miles away. Berners are great dogs, unfortunately they don't have real long lives, 10 years is about the best you can hope for.

I'm hoping after the kids are out of school the dogs will buy me a new band mill for fathers day,lol. Joe.