Bear trys to hide his illness

Bear Colbert

This is bear and what can I say about him that will bring a smile to your face. Bear is 4th in the birth line. He is the smarted dog of all five puppies, and word cannot express how intelligent Bear is. If he were human, he would be consider highly intelligent. I cannot keep him locked down. He knows how to get out of any situation.  I have an iron gate that blocks the entry in and out of my backyard. The gate must be eight or nine feet tall.  When he first started getting out, he would just through the iron gate's gaps and when he wanted to come back in the yard, he would just jump back through the iron gate bars. All the other dogs watched, but could not figure out how he was doing what he was doing or either they were to afraid to leave the backyard. Whatever the case maybe, Bear knew how to get around and to any place he wanted to go. When he was finished with his outing, he would just jump back through the iron bars. Then I had about 4 feet of metal wire placed on the gate to close it off so he could not jump through.  So he just climbs over the fence.  At any rate, I could tell you lots of stories of Bear. For instant, I have two upstairs bedrooms upstairs that must be thirty to fifty feet high. On any warm day, I often open the window so that some cool air will blow in to cool off the room, but for Bear it's an opportunity to jump out of the window and go and play. So you can see what I'm dealing with when it comes to Bear, but I'll end here to speak on a disease that almost claimed his life.

Bear was just as sick as the other dogs by the time Gabby and Baby G got well, but he did not want me to know his was sick. So he kept going outside playing and I could clearly see something was wrong. He started slowing down, he need to rest more often and finally when he came in for the night he cruel up in a corner of the living room and had a very sad and painful look on his face. The every next morning Bear was down and I mean he was just as sick as his sister.

By now Tinker had been seriously ill for the past seven days. Within throughs seven days, Gabby and Baby G took ill as well but recovered within 2 days. Then by Thursday Bear took sick and I mean he became just as sick as Tinker. It took bear about 4 days to recover. That Sunday I notice patches started to show the same signs.  He was just sitting in a corner of the room curled up and I knew immediately what to do and started Patches on his meds because he began to show signs of having parvo.

I'm glad I started him on his med early because but he recovered in two days. Tinkerbell suffered so much and for so long that my friend and family kept asking me to put her down. But I felt she deserved to live and although she suffered the most and her moan sent chiles though my family heart and they could not stand to hear her cry out in pain, she is the reason her brother's and sister is alive today.