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We got in this pup last week and I thought I'd share her here...maybe get some thoughts on her situation.
First off she's drop dead beautiful.
But she's a bucket of problems!
Layla was being dumped on Craigslist. I saw an ad for "albino Dachshund" and my heart went out to this poor creature. I had to meet her. But when I saw Layla, it was apparent she is not an albino but is a double-dapple, none-the-less. Her prev. owners also said "she died at birth, and had to be resuscitated and therefore she has hip dysplasia". Well that made no sense at all...HD isn't caused by hypoxia...! However, having owned Dachshunds for the past 7yrs. or so, I recognized the signs of back injury and sure enough, Layla's got some very serious back problems which cause her to have nerve impairment from about her ribs down.
Two of her vertebrae are fused (looks like one long one) and another set has reduced space between them, like the cushioning is gone. Our vet said "she might make a nice pet for someone but she's going to have pain at some point and this (pointing to the fused vertebrae) will get very costly (??)"
She has significant impairment with her anal tone and also her ability to walk correctly, and to make matters worse, it is apparent she did have some hypoxia at birth. She was really underweight and had no drive to drink water upon arrival, but now that we're feeding her and making sure she eats, she's regained some drive about water.
Our vet basically doesn't think it's worth our time or money to spay her, but did recommend a dental
Not that I don't want to do one but if I'm going to knock her out, it'll be for a spay.
Two more pics
First off she's drop dead beautiful.
But she's a bucket of problems!
Layla was being dumped on Craigslist. I saw an ad for "albino Dachshund" and my heart went out to this poor creature. I had to meet her. But when I saw Layla, it was apparent she is not an albino but is a double-dapple, none-the-less. Her prev. owners also said "she died at birth, and had to be resuscitated and therefore she has hip dysplasia". Well that made no sense at all...HD isn't caused by hypoxia...! However, having owned Dachshunds for the past 7yrs. or so, I recognized the signs of back injury and sure enough, Layla's got some very serious back problems which cause her to have nerve impairment from about her ribs down.
Two of her vertebrae are fused (looks like one long one) and another set has reduced space between them, like the cushioning is gone. Our vet said "she might make a nice pet for someone but she's going to have pain at some point and this (pointing to the fused vertebrae) will get very costly (??)"
She has significant impairment with her anal tone and also her ability to walk correctly, and to make matters worse, it is apparent she did have some hypoxia at birth. She was really underweight and had no drive to drink water upon arrival, but now that we're feeding her and making sure she eats, she's regained some drive about water.
Our vet basically doesn't think it's worth our time or money to spay her, but did recommend a dental
Not that I don't want to do one but if I'm going to knock her out, it'll be for a spay.
Two more pics