Phoenix

by Heather Gruber
(Gulf Shores,AL)

hi,
i have a boston mix half boston, half bison frise with a cleft palate/hair lip. he was born april 2006 his mother rejected him as he could not feed like the others and was very small and i noticed part of his lip was missing. i took him away at 3days old and took him to a vet that told me to put him to sleep, and that i did all that i could do. but i am more hard headed than that , so i took him to another vet and she said that she was gona make it the mission in life that he would live! thank god for her. i feed him every 2 hours every day for 2months and he sleeped beside my bed in an aquarium with a heated bean bag small and a light to keep the temp. just right. he started eating soft food first then he stared growing very rapidly , the vet was amazed at his growth and i was just be side my self that he was still alive and my baby was doing great but not out of the woods yet though. we he was about 4 months old he was bit by a yellow sack spider in our home. he got a sevear staph infection and he had puss bulges all over his body, he styed in the i.c.u camber at the vets office for 2months and got better but she said because of his past beeing a haip lip and being underweight his immune system was neg zero.he has since recovered completely He is now going on 3yrs old and doing amazing! he is spolied rotten as you can imagian. he is a wonderful pet and a joy to have. heather