Meet Puppy Jack...

I know you all are going to think I am crazy but... we got a puppy.

Let me start at the beginning... A couple of years ago my grandparents and my cousin each got a dog - a malchi (maltese chihuahua mix). Sugar and Willis were from the same litter. Then last year when another litter came along, my aunt got one too, Elvis - a brother to the others - just from a different litter. Eric and I had talked about it back then, that if we were going to get a little dog we should go through the same breeder since we knew how good the dogs were. Pacey had been around Willis and Sugar and they were both great with her.

Last fall we heard from Terri, my aunt - the same mother and father dog were expecting a litter over the winter... well that wound up to be a false pregnancy and we were told that maybe the breeder would try again in the spring. We didn't really think much of it, especially after we found out that we were expecting.

About 4 weeks ago, I got an email from Terri saying that there was a malchi pup available for us if we were still interested. We talked it over and decided that while the timing was not so great - we would go ahead and get the pup... after all, this would be our last opportunity since the breeder would be spaying the mother after this litter. Plus, this pup was especially bred for us. The breeder had bred the mother, a chihuahua with male chihuahua then remembered that we wanted a malchi so she then put the mother in with the maltese stud - I know it sounds crazy and a bit gross but it worked. We got our malchi and the rest of the litter were full bred chihuahuas.

Wow, as I type this it really does sound insane but trust me, once we saw his cute face we couldn't say no.

We planned a trip to get him, to North Carolina, the weekend of March 14th. We got him on Saturday the 15th and he has been with us ever since. It has been a bumpy road for Jack (named after Captain Jack Sparrow) he was under a pound when we got him and has had some episodes of low blood sugar. We had to put him on puppy formula and syringe feed him increasing from every hour to every 4. He is now doing well, eating every 4 hours - a mixture of formula and wet food - and hasn't had a low blood sugar episode in almost a week.

Again, I know you all are thinking that I must be insane, and maybe I am but we are hooked on Puppy Jack (as Pacey calls him) and wouldn't have it any other way.