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 WE HAVE
MOVED!!!
(January 2009)
The Country Garden Doxies have moved to the West Coast! They
have traded in their Mountain Views for Palm Tree Lined Skies!
They've Brought the "Country" to the "Beach" -
Back where it all started over 60 years ago!
Some of our dogs will be staying behind in Utah with Friends and
Family, So there may still be an occasional Utah Litter
Available. But the Rest of the Country Garden Doxies have left
their Snow Shoes behind and are excited to try out their new
Flip Flops!
So, be watching for our doxies playing in the Sun and the Surf
on the West Coast Beaches! Where all the Top "Hot" Dogs
go to Play!
See you There!! |
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Kena's Forced Early Retirement |
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Kena's Great Show and Breeding Career was
drastically cut short due to the negligence of a
local Emergency Veterinarian.
On September 10th 2005, Kena went into Labor
with her very first litter!
This was a much anticipated day!
We had prepared for Kena's first litter for
almost 2 years, taking into account her health
and safety along with the health and safety of
her upcoming litter!
Being our First Doxie and our Very First litter,
we were very careful with our litter planning
and made sure to take everything into account
before the breeding even took place!
We were prepared for anything!
Or so we thought…
We had taken Kena into our Wonderful
Veterinarian to have him check her out before
the breeding, making sure everything was ok
before we put her through a doxie pregnancy.
And with our Veterinarian's ok, we proceeded
with the planned breeding.
We had Kena into our vet many times within the 2
month gestation period just to make sure
everything was progressing properly.
On Day 52, we even had our vet give Kena some
Puppy x-rays so we could be prepared for the
number of puppies she was going to give birth
to.
Our Vet even did 2 x-rays, from two different
angles to make sure that there weren't any
puppies "hiding" from the first x-ray.
Just seeing the little x-ray shots of the
puppies was so thrilling!
We had waited for this litter for so long and
now their arrival was just days away!
It was almost unbelievable!
With the litter's arrival just days away, we
decided to construct a whelping box for Kena. |
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We measured Kena for the doorway, made
little blocks to put in the
door way so that Kena
could jump over them, but so that the puppies couldn't get out, and so that
as the puppies grew, we could just add more blocks to increase the height.
We even gave her whelping box 2 rooms, the sleeping and eating area was the
big room and the small room was the potty room. (Which we actually left
blocked off until the puppies were 3 ˝ weeks old) |
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We painted the
whelping box, and added a shower pan liner to
the bottom so that nothing wet could seep into
the wood. We even added little colorful painted
characters to the inside of the whelping box to
help with the puppy's eye development when their
eyes opened at 2 weeks.
We were super excited when Kena started to show
signs of labor in the late evening of September
10th. We had our vet's cell number ready to go,
if there was a problem.
Well, Kena had her first 3 puppies, no problem! |
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She was such a super mommy and was just so
in love with her new little ones! We could get lost just watching her mother
those new little ones! We had
planned for "worst case scenario" and
 Kena
just took care of everything for us! She had never been a mommy before, but
she took to it like she'd been mothering for years! She cleaned each puppy
off, took care of the umbilical cord, took care of the sack, and showed each
puppy where they could get their first meal! We were in Puppy Heaven and
just SO proud of our new little doxie mother! |
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We had a
wonderful dachshund breeder friend on the phone
with us the whole time, through each puppy
birth, making sure we knew what to watch for in
case something went wrong. We were so very
grateful for all her help and we probably would
have been nervous wrecks without it!
Well, after Kena's 3 puppies were here and happy
and healthy and filling their bellies, Kena
decided to take a nap. We knew from the previous
x-rays that she had more puppies to come, but
figured she knew what she was doing, so we let
her rest.
Our vet had told us that if she went 2 hours
between births to call him, because the
situation could be come critical fast, so we set
our watches and waited.
Well, one hour went by, and Kena was still
resting peacefully, no contractions or anything.
It was now the wee hours of the next morning.
Because she was resting so well, we didn't
disturb her, we just sat and watched for the
next hour. Well, we got dangerously close to the
2 nd hour and Kena was still not exhibiting any
signs of giving birth to the other puppies. So,
away to the phone we went to contact our vet.
Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond his
control, his cell phone was not ringing through!
We tried and tried and tried, with no success!
As the time passed to 2 hours since Kena had
given birth to her last puppy, we started to
panic and pulled out the phone book to see if
there was another veterinarian in the area that
we could call. We were able to get a hold of an
Emergency Clinic that was 20 minutes away. The
technician, who answered the phone, not sensing
the urgency of the situation, told us to wait
another hour, as per the emergency
veterinarian's recommendation, and then call her
back. So we reluctantly waited the 3 rd hour as
the technician had instructed. (As we continued
to try to get a hold of our vet)
With the 3rd hour creeping by, and Kena not
showing any signs of labor, we began to prepare
a transportation box for Kena and the Puppies to
travel with us to the Emergency Clinic
Kena was not very happy with us for disturbing
her and her new little ones to take them out
into the chilled morning air for a car ride to
the vet.
We arrived at the Clinic knowing full well the
situation at hand and knowing exactly what we
needed them to do to save the little unborn
puppies. They hustled us off into a "waiting"
room and told us that the vet would be their
shortly. Before the Veterinarian entered the
room, one of the technicians came in and told us
to not to be concerned with how the vet looks
when he comes in. She then proceeded to tell us
that the veterinarian had just been in a nasty
motorcycle accident and that he had his ribs
wrapped and his neck in a brace, but that he was
still ok to help us.
As the Vet entered the room, we proceeded to
tell him the situation at hand and told him that
there were still unborn puppies that needed
saving. After hearing our story, he turned to us
and told us that she did not have any other
puppies to be born, or she would have had them
already. We told him that we had done multiple
x-rays just days before at our vet's office and
that we knew she had more puppies, but he stood
his ground in telling us that she had no other
puppies in her. He said that he would have to
run blood tests on her and x-rays before he
would even look at her. Sensing the stress of
the situation, Kena began to panic and green
fluid dropped down out of her birth canal. At
seeing this, the veterinarian turned to his vet
tech and told her, "That's how I know that she
has other puppies to be delivered." Almost
falling over from shock and devastation we told
him that she needed to be taken into surgery for
a c-section right away or we would loose the
puppies, and possibly her! Threatened by our
apparent knowledge of the situation, he told his
technician to give Kena some injections of
Oxitocin and wait.
Both the Veterinarian and the technician left us
with Kena as they went to prepare the
injections. Quite a few minutes had passed when
a technician returned to give Kena the Oxitocin,
which was being used to induce contractions,
thus by, inducing labor. Frustrated with the
situation, we were left to sit alone in the room
with Kena as we watched her begin to experience
severe contractions. Every time we would venture
from the room to find a tech for assistance,
they would return only to give Kena another
injection.
Through the space of many hours and 4
injections, Kena was completely exhausted, yet
unable to stop contracting and still had not
delivered any of the remaining puppies. A little
puppy foot began to emerge as Kena pushed
continually. The puppy was still incased in its
sack, and we ran to find the Vet. The vet
reluctantly came back into the room to have a
look at Kena. After reviewing the situation, he
decided to break the sack that was around the
puppy to see if that would make it come out
faster. Knowing that after the sack is broken
the puppy only has 20 minutes tops before it has
to come out, or it won't survive, we pleaded
with the vet to return fast so that if the puppy
did not come out that she could be taken into
surgery to save her and the litter. He promised
to return in 15 minutes and if she hadn't had
the puppy, he would take her back for a
c-section.
What we couldn't see, was that because of the
continually strong contractions that the
overdose of Oxitocin had produced, it sent both
of Kena's unborn puppies down the birth canal at
the same time. And because only one puppy can
fit at a time, the 2 puppies had gotten stuck.
And because of the reluctance of the vet to
perform the c-section quickly, the continued
pushing of the contractions crushed one of the
puppies. So even if the Vet HAD gotten back in
enough time to get the puppy out after breaking
its sack, it wouldn't have survived.
After over 4 hours of stalling on the surgery,
we finally convinced the staff that she needed
to be taken back for her c-section now! We asked
them how long the procedure would take because
we knew that her 3 other puppies would need to
be fed, and couldn't go more than 2 hours
without a meal. The vet promised us that after
Kena was ready for surgery, that the procedure
would only take an hour, or an hour and a half,
max. We asked if we could help with the
preparation or the procedure to help Kena be
more at ease, to which they quickly responded,
"No way!"
We were left in the room with the 3 puppies to
wait. It has now been 7 hours since we had
arrived at the clinic for an emergency
c-section. A few minutes after they had taken
Kena back for the surgery, they asked us to move
into another room in the clinic to "free up" the
room we were in for other clients. They
proceeded to move us into an unfinished part of
the building with No Heating to wait for Kena's
arrival. We had not brought our heating pad with
us because we didn't expect to be so long at the
clinic. We asked them if they could provide us
with something to keep these new born puppies
warm with, to which they answered they did not
have anything available. It had now been an hour
and a half since Kena had been taken back for
surgery and we couldn't find anyone to give us
any word on how she was doing or when she would
return. So we quickly ran to the store to buy
puppy formula and bottles to feed the puppies
with until their mother could return. We also
ran to get our heating pad so the puppies
wouldn't freeze. Upon returning, with still no
signs of Kena, we asked if they could get us
some water to mix the puppy formula to give the
puppies. There was also no outlet in the
unfinished room for us to plug our heating pad
into to warm up the shivering puppies.
Eventually, one of the techs brought us 2 IV
bags filled with hot water to place near the
puppies.
Finally, after a very long and stressful 4 hour
wait, they returned Kena to us, unconscious and
still attached to the fluids with her IV. They
placed her back in with her puppies so they
could nurse, and left the room. As we were
watching her puppies franticly try to get close
to their mother, Kena stopped breathing. I ran
from the room desperate to find someone to help!
Showing no signs of concern, a tech came into
the room and took Kena back into the surgery
room saying,
"Oh don't worry, she's a strong girl".
Completely devastated now, by the loss of one of
the puppies and by the condition which Kena and
the other puppies were in, we just didn't know
what to do. After what seemed like an eternity,
they brought Kena back out to wake up with us
and her puppies. After being at this Emergency
Clinic for 11 hours, they took out Kena's IV and
allowed us to go home, with no discharge
instructions.
Now as horribly awful as this story may sound,
it does get worse. |
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Kena did come out of the whole situation
ok, and we did end up with 4 beautiful puppies who even though had a rough
start, all came out just fine.
But after all the puppies found wonderful forever homes, and Kena was
seemingly recovered from the traumatic events, she did not go back into
heat. We were not planning to breed her on her next heat, but we were
preparing her for the upcoming AKC Conformation event, and the fact that she
hadn't started her heat cycle concerned us. We called our Vet to ask if
there was anything in the notes faxed over from the Emergency Clinic that
would indicate why Kena was missing a heat cycle. After reviewing the notes,
nothing seemed out of the ordinary. |
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So we called
up the Emergency Clinic to ask them the same
thing. The Tech who answered the phone looked in
Kena's file and announced to us that the Vet had
Spayed Kena during her C-section.
This information was conveniently left off of
the notes that were sent to our vet
and we weren't even charged for a spay so it
wasn't on our bill!
We had no way of knowing that Kena was spayed
during her operation!
We were told that we gave the clinic permission
to Spay Kena during the C-section and that they
wouldn’t have done the procedure without a
signed consent form as this was an Emergency
Clinic and a routine spay was not part of their
procedures. We of course did not give them
permission, nor did we ever sign a consent form,
and when the clinic was asked to produce this
form, they could not.
We've contacted the Vet Responsible for this
along with the owner of the clinic. Neither one
of them want to take responsibility for their
actions, nor will they apologize for doing so.
As far as they are concerned, they were
"Decreasing the Surplus Dog Population" and
therefore doing the world a favor! |
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We asked their insurance company what we
could have done differently to prevent this from happening again, and what
we can do in the future to protect ourselves. And they told us that any time
we go into a clinic of any kind, to bring a paper stating that we do not
want our dog altered in anyway, and make the clinic staff sign the paper
before we are seen.
We find it very hard to swallow that a surgical procedure that needs written
consent to perform was performed without our knowledge and that we are to
blame.
We hope that by making this information public knowledge that we can save
someone else the heartache and trauma that we went through to learn this
lesson the hard way. |
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To View a Detailed Timeline of
Kena’s Labor and Delivery Record
Which was submitted to the
Clinic's Insurance Company
Yet Rejected as they did not feel
that the "Standard of Care" Was Substandard,
~ Click
Here ~
Judge for Yourself!
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