Lakeview Ranch: Curly Missouri Fox Trotters

We purchased a puppy on June 21st, a Newfoundland female. 

She is 10 wks old and is black with a little white on her chest.

We have named her Angie Baby, first was Angel Baby, but Bill would keep calling her Angie.

We didn't know when we purchased her that she was from a kennel until 2 days later! 

When we met the owners at a gas station, she was in a cage in the back of a pickup truck.

She was so cute but noticed her hair coat looked rough..didn't shine like it should and she had a slight cough.

We bought her anyway...got a good buy... now we know why...when we coming home she was coughing in the back seat and continued coughing that night and the next day.  She also was scratching alot and didn't look at her stomach, until we took her to the vet the next day.

At the vets she listened to her chest and she is congested, so she is on antibiotics.  The vet took a sample of her skin on her tummy because she had a rash...to make sure it wasn't mange.  She didn't see any live mites, but that might because the kennel owners gave her a bath, probably a flea bath, that killed them...but now we have to keep a look out to make sure she doesn't have eggs to hatch!  We did notice that she had to of had something wrong because she did have shorter hair in places, that probably was from bare spots.

She is a love butt and today, June 25, 2009 is so full of energy.  She still is coughing some but not like she was.  She got an Emu Oil Dog Shampoo today because he rolled in poop.. LOL     Her hair coat is looking better.

Her Aunt Linda and Uncle Junior came over to see her and Aunt Linda gave her a ball to play with...my gosh  I never seen so much energy!  She went to her water bowl and tried to take a bath in it !!!  And her water bowl is in the kitchen!  The ball will now go outside to play with.

We got her a huge kennel cage today, so she can learn that is where she sleeps.  Right now , it has been 5 days and I have had a total of about 10 hours sleep.  She kept me up at night for play time..and when she would cough I would wake up.  She also needs to go out to pottly every 2 hours to house break her.

She has found a life long home here and we love her already.  I hope I can find a really nice male Newfoundland to bred her to in a couple years.  We would like to bred her to either a black male or to a black and white. 

I would also love to purchase a Bronze Newfie female sometime soon,  if you know of anyone that is close to MO and is NOT a puppy mill, please let me know.

These Newfie's are wonderful dogs!

Sandy