Just when you think.....................................

Well, the pups turned out beautifully! Although I became stressed, as per usual, that I wouldn't find good homes for all of them, it wasn't an issue I should have lost sleep over. By the time they were 6 weeks old I'd found them all lovely homes, until..........................................at 7 weeks my youngest son had an accident involving one of them. Hunter(8) was helping me move puppies from their inside pen to their outside pen for the day, when his foot caught a cinderblock that I was using to prop up a board to keep the pups from escaping their kennel, and he pulled it over on one of the pups legs. YIKES! Needless to say, puppy was injured. An emergency trip to the vet told us that he had a broken leg and would have to be kept crated for 3 weeks until the leg healed. This meant we would be keeping him 2 weeks beyond when al of the other pups were to leave for their new homes. Well, after explaining the situation to the pups new owner and thankfully finding out that he still wanted the pup, we got through the 3 weeks, fell in love with Diego(the name the new owner had chosen for the pup), got our 2nd xray which was to show us he was healed and ready to go, only to find that the leg still wasn't healed and we needed to keep him for 2 more weeks. YIKES again.
Well, we're pretty much falling in love with little Diego. He has become part of the family. We've had him so long now that we'll really miss him when he's gone.
Raising pups is not for the feint of heart. If you aren't doing it for the love of puppies, beware - things don't always go as planned.