I don’t know whether to cry or beat someone up….sorry this is such a long post but I needed to vent and most all my good friends just moved to this board and I needed a little bit of love and hugs…

My daughter and her boyfriend traveled to SLC to pick up a new puppy last Saturday. They already have a five-month-old American Pitt Bull Terrier. I know everyone has given these wonderful dogs a bad reputation but this dog is a sweetheart. I’m a grandma to a dog…they can say, do ya want to go to Grandma’s and he will wait at the door until they bring him to my house. We are neighbors and just a wheat field away. I really think when the warm weather comes and he finds out where I live he will be running though the field to my house.

Anyway…back to the new puppy. She was a beautiful chocolate brown, a sweetheart of a puppy, same age and the pup they already have…Brody. They picked her up last Saturday. She was beautiful. I know I keep talking about her in the past tense…

As we played with her and loved her, we noticed that she had something weird going on with her right hind leg. Our daughter took her to the vet today to have her spayed and he took a look at the leg and told us that she had Hip Dysplasis and that it would be a waste of money and time to spay her because of how progressed the disease was. The vet said it is rare for a young pup to have it this bad. She hardly had a hip socket at all. Of course, he told us what to expect as far as a prognosis goes. As we watched her the rest of the day we could see her pain. She wouldn’t play like a puppy does…she just laid on the couch and watched the other puppy play. The doc told us that she would never be better than she was today.

I think you all know where this is going…the vet lives in our neighborhood and is the greatest guy and we totally trust him. My daughter just fell apart because she really grew to love this little girl as she called her…Rosie…

Well, tonight around 10pm we had the vet put her down. We did the right thing because of how sick she was. A puppy should not be in pain.

My anger is directed towards the previous owners. This pup had had all of her shots and had been seen by a vet so you know that they knew of her condition. My daughter has called them many times over the past few day and they are not answering her calls. They gave this pup away with the pretence that all was well. How dare they…put this horrible responsibility on my daughter to put this pup down…I am so angry I want to spit.

So sorry this was so long…