Louie & My ONE eyed Lilly!!!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while!! I have just been so busy!!! So... You did read the title right, a couple days ago my babies opened their eyes! First Louie and he looks so cute! Its so fun to see there little beady eyes trying so hard to focus in on me. I love it!! The next morning Lilly opened hers. I had worried about her eye for a while but the vet told me to stop stressing myself out and she is fine. Well, she had just a little slit open on her left eye (the one I was worried about) and so I took just a little peek and sure enough, just as I thought... it was empty. I almost started to cry but for some reason she was still just the prettiest little baby I always thought she was. I then told myself I didn't care as long as she would be okay. Then shortly after her right eye opened, and there it was... a perfect little eye! So I feel better now, at least she will be able to still see with the one and get around just fine. I then had the task of calling her soon to be mommy Amber to tell her the news. I was so worried that she wouldn't want to have a one eyed little dog, not that I would blame her!!! I don't think I would still buy a dog if it was missing AN EYEBALL!!! But I also knew that Amber was a very understanding and loving person so she probably wouldn't care, and she didn't! She will still be going to live with her new mommy Amber in about a month! So now Lilly is back on antibiotics (she was on it before because she had a little case of pneumonia). Later on when she gets a little bit older she will have to have her eye sewed shut just to prevent any infection and to keep stuff from getting in there. She will still be a healthy little dog, she is just missing an eye. I asked the vet why and he said probably just because she was just so small! Just like children are born with defects so are puppies and there is never really a good explanation for it. Its just the way it is. I still love her to pieces! And to me she is still the cutest little thing ever! As for Louie, well he is HUGE!!! Lilly only weighs about 5 oz right now, Louie is a whopping 10.5 oz!!! He looks like a little rottweiler!!! I have started making my own puppy formula because it is supposed to much easier for them to digest and put on a lot more weight. They don't have puppy formula down like they do baby formula. So now I mix them up a concoction of goats milk, whole plain yogurt, Karo syrup, mayo, liquid vitamins & egg yolks. They love it!! So Louie will just get bigger!! And hopefully his little sister will catch up soon. They are now going 3 1/2 hrs without eating at night and still eating every 2 hrs during the day. I never imagined this would be so much work!!!! But in a couple of weeks they will be able to drink their milk from a bowl so I wont be bottle feeding them as often. It should start to get easier soon. Here are a few pictures of our little babies!!! They will be 3 weeks on Monday!!! They made it!!!

This is Louie smiling for the camera!!

And this is Lilly's good eye!

She wouldn't sit still long enough for me to get a good head on picture!

Her other eye.

She is still such a cute little thing!!

This is where they spend most of their day. They love it!!

Just Something To Remember...

This is nothing crazy, probably not even worth your time if your reading it. As a matter of fact this is pretty much a very boring night at my moms house. No drama like there usually is or anything like that, but I wanted to remember it for some reason so I'm going to blog about it. Last night I went to my moms for dinner for some DELICIOUS homemade Mexican food! We had the best red chili enchiladas, my mom brings back tons of fresh chili from New Mexico (where I was born) every year. Anyway, I walked in around 7 exhausted and in a very grumpy mood. When I walk into the kitchen it is very apparent that my mother is on her 3rd or more glass of wine. She comes running over excited to see us and says "Want to hear my new favorite song??!!" I said only if she promises to break out in one of her crazy little dances she does. So she runs over and puts on the song that starts of with some guy blabbing.. "boo bee bum bum bo bo boo bee bum..." I started to giggle, right then Chanel hits the floor because she was turning to look at me to fast so I giggle some more. Then my dad walks in and says "Do you know what my favorite song is??!! PIMP JUICE!!! I love that song!!" and begins to break out into the Pimp Juice lyrics. Then I hear Rory behind me gasp for air! I turn around and Rory had just tasted my moms chili. He yells "That took my breath away!! THIS IS WAAAAY TOOO HOOOOOOOT!!!" I just kept giggling some more. Then we all sat down for dinner and I look at Rory's plate as he is saying that he is going to regret eating this tomorrow and that this chili is like draino for the body and he has about a pound of cheese piled on a huge plate of very hot chili. I told him his...excuse my language.... Butt wasn't going to know what to do tomorrow. He was probably going to self com bust! Right then my youngest brother Sebastian walked in and Rory yelled "What did you learn at school today??!" The reason he said this was because Sebastian got caught ditching school for the first time yesterday and he NEVER gets into trouble. He is scared of everything and panics over things like this way to easy. Anyway, Sebastian lowered his head and quietly said "Never to ditch school again." Poor kid. The night went on like this until I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. Well, like I said this is going nowhere and probably has no real significance to you but I guess what I am trying to say is that I love being with my family! We are just your typical Hispanic family... loud, obnoxious, crazy, drama filled & funny! Its too bad my other 3 brothers weren't there, I would probably have a lot more to write about!

By the way, Sorry for the picture. Its old and my little Rori Ana isnt in it but its the only one I have!

9.25.07 - 1.13.09

Goodbye My Sweet Little Friend

My little Lola had her puppies, she had one boy & one girl. We have named them Louie and Lilly, Louie weighs 4 oz. and Lilly only weighs 2 oz. I am so very sad to say that not all is well. I knew we had a chance at not having everything go smooth, but never in a million years did I imagine how things would end. I have lost one of my best friends, Lola. She had a very long labor lasting 20 hrs. and it was just too much for her to handle. It was such a long hard week for her and it is probably best that she is at rest now. Her temperature went down on Wed. Jan. 7, I thought we would be seeing pups within 24 hrs. but her water didn't even break until Sunday at 3:30 pm. I kept waiting for her to go into heavy labor, but by 8:30 that night I hadn't seen anything so we were on our way to the emergency vet. They took x rays and ran a few test and she seemed to be just fine. The puppies were well, and she was in no stress or pain so they sent me home and said we will see the pups by morning. At 7:30 am Monday she started to push, after 2 hrs of pushing I was running back into the animal hospital. We got there around 10 am and the vet wanted to watch her for just a bit longer to see if she could do it. He gave her some meds to help with the pain and we waited. I sat there by her just rubbing her and talking to her until they decided it was time to go in for an emergency c section. By this time it was 12:30 pm. She did so good during the surgery and once she was done she woke right up, just long enough to see her babies and give them a few kisses. The vet then gave her some sedative because she was in a lot of pain after being in labor for so long and going through such a major surgery. All through this she was so strong and she still had enough in her to love on her babies for just a minute and give me a few kisses and wag her little tail. After the sedatives kicked in she went to sleep. Finally around 5:30 that night I was able to bring her home. I carried her and her little babies up to my room and laid them down next to our bed, she woke up to take a few drinks of water and I could tell she was relieved to be home. Well things went down from there, she never really woke up after that and she kept getting sick. I stayed up with her all night trying to get her to come around, but at 5:30 Tuesday morning she passed away in my arms. She just stopped breathing, I tried mouth to snout resuscitation but she was gone. The vet believes it was from kidney failure. As I sit here typing this I am just bawling my eyes out! I am going to miss my Lola so very much. Not only was she one of my best friends and companions, but she was a big part of our family. My dogs are not only like one of my children but they are my therapy. She knew when I was upset or when I just needed someone there to love me. She was so loyal and caring. I can only hope I showed her as much love as she has shown me. I will always remember Lola and nothing could ever fill her place. For being such a little dog she really has left a huge void in my life. But I am happy that she is finally at peace and no longer in pain. I truly believe I will see my Lola again. As for her puppies, they are doing good. The first day I had to tube feed them every 2 hrs. I also have to help them go potty (they cant until they are 3 wks. old) clean them and make sure they stay above 80 degrees. I felt like I was in way over my head so I put an ad in the KSL to find a surrogate mother. I knew that if I could just find a dog that would take them in the chances of them living would be much higher. I got a call from a lady named Tiffany. She had a poodle named Sienna who had puppies 6 weeks ago so she would be able to nurse and has taken in other puppies before! She was nice enough to let me bring her dog to my house! She will not willingly lay down to feed them but with a little assistance she is happy to let them nurse off of her. So every 2 hrs. I take Sienna to the puppies to feed, I then potty them, clean them up, give them some antibiotics and then wrap them in a blankie to stay warm. This will be my life for a while. I am happy to do it, since Lola did so much for me. Sienna may have to go home soon and then I will bottle feed. This week is very crucial to the puppies. If I can keep them alive for the first week, the odds are much better they will live through this. Lets hope these puppies are as strong as they're mommy was. Here is a few pictures of the whole story

Here is Lola when she finally went into labor, she got so BIG!

Here she is just before they took her in for surgery.



Lola on the surgery table, so sad!

Puppy # 1 Lilly

Puppy #2 Louie

This is Louie right out of the womb.

Welcome to the world!

Here is Lola right when she woke up from surgery.

Here is Mommy meeting her new babies!

This was the last time she really got to see them. I'm sure she was proud.

This is us this morning when we woke up.


And here is Sienna!! Thank heavens for her, she has been such a blessing!



Last night we had a little burial for Lola. My neighbors came over to say goodbye, thanks you guys!! I am happy to see she meant so much to so many other people. I took one of her little paws to get a foot print so I can remember just how tiny she was. I will miss my special little stinky friend. May she rest in peace.

We Love you Lola.