BK's Quigley Down Under I
Date of Birth: 9/21/1996
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Quigley is a puppy we kept out of a litter from Buddy and Amber. When he was 7 wks old he got what's commonly called 'puppy strangles' which is an infection of the lymph glands, and as you can see from his puppy pictures, even at 12 wks old he still had some swelling in his face and neck. The poor little guy looked like the elephant man....his glands were so swollen all over his entire body, including his muzzle, that you could barely see his eyes! At first our vet thought it was a spider bite but after a week or two of trying several different antibiotics and steriods with no improvement, he decided to do a biopsy of the glands vs. one lump that wasn't in a gland area, and sure enough the diagnosis was 'strangles', not a spider bite. Once he was on the proper medication the swelling started to go down fairly quickly, as well as the stitches from where they had shaved the biopsy spots, but by this time he'd been with us for so long and we had gotten so attached to the little guy that we decided to keep him for ourselves.
The vet said that he would probably end up on the small side because of all the medication he had been on as a puppy, which was okay with us actually, but boy was he wrong!!! Quigley is now 24" tall and close to 65 lbs.......not exactly my idea of 'small'! He quickly became a much loved part of our little Aussie family, and he and his mother, Amber, are still very close at almost 11 and 14 yrs of age.