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Hey everyone:
I just wanted to share my story with everyone, so hopefully this will never happen to anyone else.
I bought a brindle male boxer pup from a breeder in my town in Feb. of 2002. Even though it was against my better judgement I put a deposit on a beautiful brindle with a white collar, well I got a phone call from the breeder and he told me that the pup that I put a deposit on got stolen. The pups were only 5 weeks old. My husband did not believe the man, because the people were not the cleanest people and the mother did not look real good. She was real thin, I mean I know that mothers lose weight because of the pups but she was bad. Anyway, the breeder told me that he could refund my money or give me the only pup he had left which was the runt. So, I took the runt. Which we named him Zeus. He was wonderful but at the age of 3 months, he started to lose his hair and get red bumps on this chest area. The vet basically had no clue and did not know what it was. Well, finally at the age of 5 months, I demanded that they give him a skin scape to check for Demodotic Mange, well that is what it was, but at this time the poor puppy had NO hair and he started to act real sick. He vomited all the time. Well, they wanted to dip him, but was worried about him already being sick. Well, to make a long story shorter, I took Zeus to the vet in the morning of the 24th of June, (6 months old), because he could not walk on his own, and he acted like he was blind. Well, the vet examined Zeus and found that his immune system total failed and he went blind as well as his lymphnodes had swollen up. He told me that Zeus was suffering and there was really nothing he could do for him.
I cried so hard that day, and made the decision that I hoped that I would never have to make and that was put him out of misery. I had to put my baby boy to sleep. My 9 year old son was so heart broken, because he just lost his best-friend and buddy.
I called the breeder and he told me too bad and that he was not going to help me in any way. I was really upset now. I ran into a lady that seemed to have bought the only female puppy from the same breeder and litter of Zeus. Come to find out that her puppy had died the day before Zeus from the same problems Zeus suffered from. So, I found it kinda weird that both puppies from the same litter died of the same thing. Well, I know in my heart that our precious Zeus will never suffer again and that at least the 6 months he did spend on this earth, my family made him feel like he was the greatest dog alive and gave him a great life.
If you find anything similiar on your boxer please request a skin scraping early and hopefully they can control it before it is too late, like Zeus. I hope this story helps anyone that has had this problem or knows any boxer that might show signs of Demodotic mange. Please get it check, it might save you furbabies.
I just wanted to share my story with everyone, so hopefully this will never happen to anyone else.
I bought a brindle male boxer pup from a breeder in my town in Feb. of 2002. Even though it was against my better judgement I put a deposit on a beautiful brindle with a white collar, well I got a phone call from the breeder and he told me that the pup that I put a deposit on got stolen. The pups were only 5 weeks old. My husband did not believe the man, because the people were not the cleanest people and the mother did not look real good. She was real thin, I mean I know that mothers lose weight because of the pups but she was bad. Anyway, the breeder told me that he could refund my money or give me the only pup he had left which was the runt. So, I took the runt. Which we named him Zeus. He was wonderful but at the age of 3 months, he started to lose his hair and get red bumps on this chest area. The vet basically had no clue and did not know what it was. Well, finally at the age of 5 months, I demanded that they give him a skin scape to check for Demodotic Mange, well that is what it was, but at this time the poor puppy had NO hair and he started to act real sick. He vomited all the time. Well, they wanted to dip him, but was worried about him already being sick. Well, to make a long story shorter, I took Zeus to the vet in the morning of the 24th of June, (6 months old), because he could not walk on his own, and he acted like he was blind. Well, the vet examined Zeus and found that his immune system total failed and he went blind as well as his lymphnodes had swollen up. He told me that Zeus was suffering and there was really nothing he could do for him.
I cried so hard that day, and made the decision that I hoped that I would never have to make and that was put him out of misery. I had to put my baby boy to sleep. My 9 year old son was so heart broken, because he just lost his best-friend and buddy.
I called the breeder and he told me too bad and that he was not going to help me in any way. I was really upset now. I ran into a lady that seemed to have bought the only female puppy from the same breeder and litter of Zeus. Come to find out that her puppy had died the day before Zeus from the same problems Zeus suffered from. So, I found it kinda weird that both puppies from the same litter died of the same thing. Well, I know in my heart that our precious Zeus will never suffer again and that at least the 6 months he did spend on this earth, my family made him feel like he was the greatest dog alive and gave him a great life.
If you find anything similiar on your boxer please request a skin scraping early and hopefully they can control it before it is too late, like Zeus. I hope this story helps anyone that has had this problem or knows any boxer that might show signs of Demodotic mange. Please get it check, it might save you furbabies.
