Oso - Foster Puppy # 2

Oso came to us on April 25, 2007.  She was the smallest puppy I've ever seen.... maybe a pound total weight.  The pound wanted to say that she was five weeks old ... but I don't know what they were smoking when they came up with that.  She was probably more like three weeks old.  She barely had teeth, couldn't eat dry food - didn't even know what to do with dry food.  All she did was shake and make sucking noises, and cry - lots of crying.  The poor girl could barely walk, stumbling around the house, mostly sleeping in a laundry basket with blankets in the bottom.  I remember that she would wake up after sleeping for hours and hours and pee, and the spot of pee would be the size of a quarter.  Even her pee was tiny.  :)  She couldn't eat dry food at all, and really couldn't eat wet food either.  She could lap up the gravy around the wet food, but not actually eat it.  I went out and got puppy formula for her and bottle fed her for a week or so, adding in more mix as we went to turn it into greul.  Eventually she was doing okay on the greul but not putting on weight.  So I bought some chicken gravy and started mixing it with can food, using lots of gravy so she could lap it up.  Chicken gravy is mostly just chicken stock, so I figured it couldn't be all bad for her, plus it was calories - and at that point all I cared about was getting some calories in her belly.  Finally she started to perk up after weeks of this.  She even grew her teeth in and started eating dry food. 

The way that puppy ran was the funnies thing ever... She hopped, like a rabbit.  It was hilarious to watch.  For weeks I sat here thinking that there might be something wrong with her, because she was so calm, so quiet - so not a puppy... She was oh so sweet and gentle.  We ended up naming her Oso, like Oh-So, because Oso is Italian for Bear, plus it fit because we were constantly saying that she was Oh-So this and Oh-So that.  We miss her very much these days...

A lady named Judy called here to see about adopting her, and after talking for a long time and really getting to know them, we chose them to adopt Oso.  Now she lives in St. Peters with a great loving family and is doing Oh-So-Wonderfully!

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