Caddy came to live with us a week ago today. I was approached at my school's sports carnival by a breeder who I got one of my other boxers from, she asked if I would be interested in one of her older dogs as she was downsizing. I asked her what she was doing with the others and she told me she was putting her two oldest dogs down and in the same sentence mentioned Caddy saying that she was stubborn and wouldn't do anything as well as being a barker, which led me to believe that she was also going to put her down.
After school finished and I had ummed and aahed my husband will kill me that sort of thing I went to the breeder's place. Finally I decided that I would take Caddy as the older dog had a good chance of being rehomed as she is a trained show dog and caddy had only been off the breeder's property once as well as spending most of her time in a kennel ( the breeder didn't really like her mouth but loved everything else about her).
Over the past week I have been training Caddy to walk on a lead (the breeder told me she jumped around like an idiot-which she has not done once), teaching her how to climb stairs, and socialising her as I am a big believer in boxers being social animals. On Monday I took Caddy to the vet to make sure she was okay, we gave her a heart worm test and she came back strongly positive, as well as having a pulled muscle in her shoulder and an ear infection. I think the pulled muscle might have been caused playing with an older alpha dog at the breeder's place and the ear infection according to the vet was probably going to happen without her being rehoused. She has had other ear infections without them being properly treated according to my vet as the skin in her ears has thickened due to past infections. The heartworm is my major concern because Caddy is not yet two and for the next two years she has to be on Heartguard before she will be totally free of the parasite, but during that time she can drop dead at any time because of a blockage caused by the dead worms. To make matters even worse it appears that Caddy is scared of men I don't know why but my husband really scares her and he has not done a thing to her.
I really feel for this beautiful boxer who has a wonderful temperment and outlook on life and has yet to put a paw wrong. She just takes everything in her stride.
Hopefully my little shadow will pull through everything okay. The breeder requested that I put her in the Royal show in Darwin so we'll see how she goes. She is starting obedience and agility training soon but all training will be taken slowly as we need to build up her fitness. In the mean time Caddy is slowly adjusting to life in what my friends call boxer heaven and we'll just have to see how she goes.
Boxerkids
Proud parents of three bodacious boxers
Jazzy the contrary one
Reiko the brains behing the gang and now
Caddy the shy one
After school finished and I had ummed and aahed my husband will kill me that sort of thing I went to the breeder's place. Finally I decided that I would take Caddy as the older dog had a good chance of being rehomed as she is a trained show dog and caddy had only been off the breeder's property once as well as spending most of her time in a kennel ( the breeder didn't really like her mouth but loved everything else about her).
Over the past week I have been training Caddy to walk on a lead (the breeder told me she jumped around like an idiot-which she has not done once), teaching her how to climb stairs, and socialising her as I am a big believer in boxers being social animals. On Monday I took Caddy to the vet to make sure she was okay, we gave her a heart worm test and she came back strongly positive, as well as having a pulled muscle in her shoulder and an ear infection. I think the pulled muscle might have been caused playing with an older alpha dog at the breeder's place and the ear infection according to the vet was probably going to happen without her being rehoused. She has had other ear infections without them being properly treated according to my vet as the skin in her ears has thickened due to past infections. The heartworm is my major concern because Caddy is not yet two and for the next two years she has to be on Heartguard before she will be totally free of the parasite, but during that time she can drop dead at any time because of a blockage caused by the dead worms. To make matters even worse it appears that Caddy is scared of men I don't know why but my husband really scares her and he has not done a thing to her.
I really feel for this beautiful boxer who has a wonderful temperment and outlook on life and has yet to put a paw wrong. She just takes everything in her stride.
Hopefully my little shadow will pull through everything okay. The breeder requested that I put her in the Royal show in Darwin so we'll see how she goes. She is starting obedience and agility training soon but all training will be taken slowly as we need to build up her fitness. In the mean time Caddy is slowly adjusting to life in what my friends call boxer heaven and we'll just have to see how she goes.
Boxerkids
Proud parents of three bodacious boxers
Jazzy the contrary one
Reiko the brains behing the gang and now
Caddy the shy one
I don't understand why this "breeder" would put down her dogs if there is nothing wrong with them but only because she doesn't want them anymore :( I really am astonished that a vet would go ahead and preform that knowing a good dog was being PTS for no reason :mad: That is just awful and those poor dogs deserve a better life. Keep us posted on her progress 
