Hello everyone.  We’re sorry it’s been so long since 0ur last post, but things have been slightly hectic at the house with the holidays and planning a wedding . . . Anyways, we’ve had some MAJOR things fall into place since the last post and we wanted to update everyone.  Eddie is 7 months old now and weighs in around 75 lbs.  He is still significantly smaller than his sister, who weighs around 105 lbs and is about 6 inches longer that he is.  We’ve expected that he would stay smaller because he’s the runt, so we’re not really surprised and we’re still slightly relieved because we’ve been worried about Eddie getting too big too quickly and over-stressing his frame while he grows.  To give everyone an idea of how much Eddie’s grown, take a look below.  This picture is from when Eddie was about 7 weeks old and 7 months old for comparison.

The other excitement recently is that we’ve found a vet that we feel is the right person to do the amputation that Eddie needs.  He’s been a vet for around 30 years, he has done multiple amputations, from both illness and trauma, and he takes care of the Bulldog mascots for the local military college.  He also came highly recommended from another Dane owner, who lives a couple houses down the road and who the vet adopted a Dane puppy from.  The vet also uses a cold laser for all surgeries, which he explained helps prevent bleeding complications because it cauterizes as it cuts.  He is very optimistic that the surgery will not be anything super complicated and hopefully Eddie will only have to spend 1 night.  We’re scheduled for the first week of March, so we’ll update everybody post-surgery and hopefully be able to keep a regular update schedule so everyone can keep track of Eddie’s post-op progress.  Thanks and everyone have a great month!