Thank god the 6 made Progress!
RIP Squiggy!
I am gonna carry that loss for a long long time 😞
No one really knows the burdens a true breeder carries with them.
The intimate last moments of such tiny babies. The heart ache and dedication! It always amazes me when someone tells me -well I saw someone selling dogs cheaper?????
Or why do they cost so much?
Really? Because I don’t consider myself selling. I’m working my butt off to complete families. To create life. I guess anyone can find anyone who just lets all the dogs do all the work. Who doesn’t get attached. And pay a lot less. And not have that life long bond that is built between breeder and client. I guess they can still walk into any pet store
And support an industry that directly contributes to the abuse and suffering of so many innocent babies. Or a BYB who has no idea what they are doing who thinks it would be Cute to have a litter without any clue what can go wrong! Who would have to let the pups all die because they have to go to “work” the next day. Or worse purchase from a bad one who bears No responsibility and produces puppies bound to suffer with CDA or blind or deaf . Or purposely mixes them creating more dangerous combinations! You see more of these “ designers “ in pet stores. The truth is that NO REPUTABLE BREEDERS sell to a pet store only BYB and mills so they are all MUTTS. Some are bought at auctions!!!
There are So many Squiggies in the world with no one to fight or pray for them. With no arms comforting them as they take their last breath. ...Just to save a few dollars? (Like buying a sweat shop jacket. )To save a few dollars. 🤦🏻♀️
But it saddens me. I am not sure that people really get it. Maybe now people will get it. Maybe putting this experience out there instead of keeping it inside will spread awareness and appreciation for the few that really go the extra mile.
I have to believe it all means something. That even that tiny 12 day old soul that I’ve been nursing and feeding and praying over wasn’t lost in vain. I have to believe that there is a purpose and a meaning. Maybe it’s to let people know.
It’s not all butterflies and rainbows and sprinkles. It’s not all puppy breaths and wet noses.
That’s the wonderful part. That’s the goal. But every once in a while it’s a month without sleep. A Christmas without caroling.
It’s midnight feedings and blizzards. It’s 3am c sections that always happen on a Sunday when the vet is closed. It’s not hours.. it’s days and weeks of worrying, and praying and loving and giving. It’s sacrificing everything else because nothing else in the house is life and death. It’s a sink full of dishes at 5 am. It’s running out of towels. It’s pizza for the kids all week! It’s realizing that it’s been 27 hours since you had so much as a glass of water or food yourself! It’s warm bottles and hot water bottles and gel packs and home remedies and incubators and homemade nebulizjng chambers and oxygen tanks. It’s hoping another mom can foster if you have one! It’s praying to God she doesn’t eat them! That’s right eat them! Holding your breath during that first introduction holding the pup backward to do minimal damage to the pup but most likely maximum to your own hand should she turn! The things you can never unsee!
6 days in the hospital from a dog bite wound infection. Cancelled vacations, missed parties. Rescheduled surgeries on yourself!
Smuggling puppies in shoeboxes to avoid missing a feeding when the kids need to go to the ER
It’s 5 days without a 🚿.
It’s giving everything you have.
Your time
your money
your sleep
your plans
your children
your clients
your everything
one hour at a time for Days sometimes WEEKS. It’s not being able to sleep during your own Flu! Not being able to go to the ER for yourself!! Because they need you!
And most of the time those weeks end up being for nothing. They are so fragile that 8 out of 10 times you will fail. Maybe it’s Gods will, or nature or maybe your body gave out and after 5 days you crashed and slept thru the alarm! That guilt never leaves you. You learn to never sleep again!!! But still you will try anyway. And carry it and learn from it and feel it and cry when u finally hydrate enough to produce the tears.
When you do it right...
It’s hard work and dedication!
And the 2 times !!! Well they make up for it all sometimes! Sometimes it really is rainbows and wet noses and puppy breath
Its a roller coaster 🎢
Maybe now people feel just an ioda of what it’s like. Just enough to appreciate and not waste such precious time. And not say such insulting things. Maybe someone out there is hugging their little baby while reading this and can appreciate how lucky they are to have such a wonderful baby.
It’s a beautiful beautiful hard job!!!
Maybe someone will read this and decide to purchase from a reputable breeder instead of a pet store or a BYB. Maybe they will take the time to give their breeder a glowing review. Maybe someone will think twice before becoming a BYB now knowing what can happen! Knowing that it’s our responsibility because we helped create these lives!!!
These aren’t products that we produce slap a sticker on and sit on a shelf for 8 weeks!
These are lives that we create! Plan with genetics, nurture with love, train with patience, clean and care for in both Sickness and in health. In both life and death. This is a full time job and a full time responsibility!
This is why I want to know where my puppy ends up. I want to interview you on the phone and get pictures throughout the years. These babies each are my blood sweat and tears. I carry them with me always. They all have a story. A purpose. They all deserve as much love when they leave as they got when they started. .
Maybe that was the purpose!
So if you have a Dachshund that you love and your breeder was a reputable one please for Squiggy take a moment before the year is over to thank them! Write them a review to let others know. Let them know you appreciate them. Because these little boogers cant talk and they are too young to kiss us.
And please be considerate and kind whenever you inquire about a puppy anywhere. Don’t waste a reputable breeders time please . It really is valuable. Maybe not to you but to the babies that need them. Be considerate and kind.
Maybe that’s the message here.....
Or maybe I’m just way too sleep deprived and hungry and emotional 😉☺️