Dogs are amazing creatures & one of gods true gifts just for man,ive raised & bread American Bulldogs close to 30 years,we stick with the johnson breed which can be told by enormous heads & very short snouts.
Years back our stud & his female were inseperable,the female was 14 years old when we had her put down,hard times,the male was in perfect health the morning we put the female down & strong as a mule,he was 140 lbs of muscle even though he was 14 yrs old he was in great health,we ended up putting him down 2 months to the day from the sick female,he refused to eat & died of lonlieness,sad times.
We have a new male & female now,they had a litter 3 months ago where the mother only had one pup,this pup is a monster,he was scheduled to get his shots at 2 months old,one week before his shots he got parvo & had to be hospitalized for 23 days,we allmost lost him 4 or 5 times he was deathly ill,it ended up costing us over $4,000 in emergency vet bills to save him.
When he was at his worst & we thought we were going to loose him we got everybody together to go see him & have him put down,we took the mother & father along.
Against advice from the vet we wanted the mother & father to see their pup one last time since they had been acting sick since he'd been gone,the vet reccomended putting the pup down & said he had less than a 5% chance to live,he also didnt want us to show the sick pup to the parents,or to take the pup out of quarantine.
I told the vet to fuck off & we took the pup outside in the grass & laid him down,he couldnt keep his little eyes open & he was so weak you could see he knew he was going to die,i brought the mother & father over from the truck,that sick little guy opened his eyes & started crying loudly & wagging his lil tail fast as hell,he kept trying to stand but he couldnt.
The mother & father sniffed him all over & both licked him head to tail,they both laid down next to the pup & all 3 dogs started wimpering,when it was time to put him down i had a hell of a time getting the father back to the car,he weighs 157 lbs & didnt want to go,the mother went quietly buy kept looking back at her pup.
We all took the lil guy back in & waited for the doc to get the shot to put him down ready,i was stroking the pups fur & noticed he had his eyes open which was something he wasnt doing for the last 18 hours,we could hear the male out in the truck going nuts too,when the vet came in & asked us if we were ready i said how come the pup opened his eyes all the sudden & seemed semi alert when an hour before he couldnt hold his head up,the vet said maybe the visit with the parents aroused him but it would get worse again.
I said fuck it were not putting him down today & if he was gonna go he had to be worse off,they put him back on his IV & stomache tube & a fentynal drip for pain,that night the 2nd shift vet called us at 3am saying he was accepting water through a syringe,by the time we got there at 10 am he sat up to greet us & wagged his lil ass off,we visited him twice a day for the next 4 days & every visit he looked better,on the 4th day he was drinking & eating on his own.
The morning of the 5th day the vet called saying the pup still had to be on an IV but we could take him home,he lost 19 lbs but he beat the parvo & is laying on his bed with his mother right now,i know for a fact that lil guy lost his will to live until he seen & communicated with his parents,damm right dogs care about & love each other.
