Changes in Cheyenne After her 1st day of birth we noticed her to be going down hill, she was losing strength, and we often found her cold, and pushed a way from the dinner table. So I began to feed her my self. I went to the Vets office and got some milk replacer and a puppy bottle, after the first feeding I soon learned she had and attitude and defiantly didn’t like this bottle!
What was we to do? I tried an eye dropper that was worse…so I went to the store and got her a regular baby bottle and this one worked she LOVED it…she was hooked…
Does she come with Diapers?As for us it was just like having a real baby all over again the night feedings, taking her every where we went – We where calving heifers at the time so I put her in a little box with a heating pad and off we went. She was a pretty good conversation starter. We even took her to rodeos, it was so cute every one would come see what we had in the baby blanket. She stole every one hearts.
Whow two Moms! I still tried to get her to mingle with the other puppy’s but that was sort of hard, she wanted them but they weren’t sure of her, mom treated her just fine she licked and cared for her just as her own which she was, I was just helping her out…
Picking out her name was not hard, I had often said the next dog we got I was going to name Cheyenne if it was a female…so after waiting for just about a month, my husband and I where watching a little TV and he ask when I was going to name her? I told him I was scared to name her, I was still afraid she would die. He says it has been a month since she was born, don’t you think she deserves a name? So that night we named her Cheyenne.
We noticed She was different As Cheyenne got a little older she was having problems getting up and moving. I took her to a couple of local vets and after a bit of time we all decided she had a sever ear infection. This is what we treated her for.
What where we to do You have to remember she wasn’t even six weeks old yet. After a few more weeks it was decided that she had damaged a nerve behind her eye with this ear infection. This in turn messed up her balance and motor skills…Our son suggested to us to put her down (to sleep) we couldn’t do it. Cheyenne was our baby! So we plugged along helping her get up and move around.

What a personality She loves to go for rides in the truck, you tell her “lets go for a ride” and out the door she goes and bounces or hops back and forth at the truck door waiting for a lift in. Oh, and we can’t forget the popcorn (this one is new) since it is winter and we are in the house a little early, we enjoy a bag of pop corn well of course we need to share with the kids (the dogs). What happens if we don’t pop the pop corn? Cheyenne will come and sit at my feet and stare at me then go to the kitchen by the microwave look at it and come back and stare at me again. (all of this in a round about way – she needs to do her circles) We get the message though and pop up some pop corn. She is so funny….we love her…

We where spooked that she would die giving birth, but she didn’t, she had six pups and we saved two of them, believe it or not she raised both of them just fine…The puppy’s soon learned (with in a couple days) to come to her when she had fell over, it is such a miracle how they functioned as a family…truly amazing….we don’t dare spay her, we are afraid that she would die, so we just need to watch her a little closer….
It has been  two years+ since her birth, and to this day Cheyenne is doing great! Sometimes we get people who ask us if we still have the retarded dog. I simply say yes we still have Cheyenne and she isn’t retarded (by no means) she is a miracle and she is just our little off heeler….
Something to think about you know I haven’t found another dog that dislikes her, other dogs don’t seem to think she has a problem, they just play like any other dog. Our dogs are learning how to play with her without her falling over, oh, she still falls, but there are days when they play all day long and she never falls over…she don’t move like a normal dog, and she never well, but that is alright,   she isn’t  any different for any other.

Gives you a little something to think about hey….

I realized I hadn’t updated anything about Cheyenne as of late…so I thought I would give you a little update.  Cheyenne is still doing great.  I take her for walks about every other day, daily walks are to much on her, she gets tired.  I think this is from the way she travels, her hoping motion.

She has developed a couple new habits, in our house hold no one gets away with have a chip or snake alone…Cheyenne has very good hearing!  Open a package of chips, a box of crackers, here she come on the run – you aren’t having a snake with out her!

We have been taking care of Trixy (Cheyenne’s mom) for the last several months.  Here is something she don’t like ( and it is about the only thing she don’t like) and that is her MOM!  One morning Cheyenne accidentally bumped into her they had a little growling match, from that day on she has hated her mom!  Talk about a fight, Cheyenne very well defends herself, even when she is on her side.  We are not sure why there is this hate toward each other,  out theory is the fact that neither one of them or spade, and they both want to be dominate may play into this.  Not sure though….So we have the added of chore of keeping them separate so we have no fighting….

Our son has since been able to take Trixy home with him, so we don’t have this issue anymore, only when we baby sit Trixy…I am not sure these to will ever learn to like each other.

All and all Cheyenne is doing great.  She still loves the snow, but I think she is getting excited for spring…She loves to be outside, but she gets cold easy, so I am sure Spring is on her mind.