Yes thank you to all your good wishes has helped her sail through, well almost!
Alex the vet, (who is superb) x rayed her lungs, Liver, kidneys and Bladder, she scanned her, did an endoscopy and thoroughly checked her all over and NO OTHER TUMORS present, hooray.
Her water work problems is probably just an old age thing so will sort that after her recovery from the mastectomy. She is tired and sore but quite bright all the same. I am so relieved she is home and fine, stitches out in 11 days.
The others are being so gentle with her and for the first time her daughters are washing her for change!
A couple things to say before Lea Lou and I have an early night, all new owners I no it is an overwhelming thing having a Monster pup (sorry Munster pup!!!! ;-) ) but you are all doing very well, Elspeth did a tremendous job with Ceilidh yesterday, her first Munster, her first Champ show, in fact any show and Ceilidh behaved beautifully I was very proud of them both.
Please remember they are all individuals ( I know you know this but just want to help you all)
and there is no manual, read books but only use as a rough guide and don't worry if none of it applies to your puppy, Munsterlanders are very different to most breeds in lots of way. The odd dogs I have had back are often from people who have read a book and tried to use it as a manual and then panic when it doesn't work the way the book says it should. Common sense and they are more like a very fast, very quick to mentally mature human child, they will try it on, they will push the boundaries and play one of you off against the other, BUT their whole world
revolves around Mum and Dad and they will love you so much.
Dogs need to be dominated and hate it if you let them become top dog it is too stressful for them.
Putting them onto their back and making them stay there until they relax is a great, kind way to teach them you are boss, you can even tickle their tummy so it's a nice thing so long as they relax, don't give up even if it takes 10 mins, (it wont honest) you must win if they battle but most just say oh OK I will roll over! As for the teething, (see earlier post) they do grow out of it and once the teething is over it stops.
They have come from a house with 8 siblings and 5 adults to a home on their own and they want to play with you. YOU need to tell them and show them what is acceptable in play and what is not, they will be full of energy so get them outside and play to wear them out everyday they will need more and more as their energy levels increase.
Watch how long you feed puppy food for if they end up very hyper cut it back to adult food as soon as you can, by 12 weeks old most of mine are on adult food and if yours are getting too hyper once their walks start try a small bag of junior and then onto Adult, lets just say a Munsterlander on high protein is like a child on coca cola and sweets and then shut in a small room with nothing to do - Murder.
Any help and advice you can post on the blog OR e mail me privately anytime.
Good Luck and enjoy your baby he will be a big boy soon enough!
x x x x from Leah to you all, she is the puppies Great Great Granny, My Truly litter's and Summers litter, Stella Great Granny, Mum to Duchess Diva, Zeta, Logi, Granny to Prima, Keisha, Duke, Summer, and sister to Zeb and Dylan, hope I haven't missed anyone if so tell me and I'm sorry very very tired now and off to bed to cuddle Leah!
I hope this rambling is coherent, I know what I am trying to say anyway! as I said sooooo tired.
