About My Blue Man
August 7th, 2013 by suzyq
Alpha Monster was born Oct 8, 2010. Unfortunately the breeder we got him from was HORRIBLE! His parents are both from Thailand, Alphas mother has been extremely over bred 🙁 which is the reason for his soft ears and now the cause of his health issues! We took Alpha home at 6 weeks because all of his brothers and sisters were sold and in their new homes as early as 4 weeks :-/!! Alpha was raised and taught all the puppy rules by is big sister Kaylee a 16lb Puggle. They might be an odd couples but they r best buds!
Alpha is definitely one of a kind! He has numerous quirks, and is the sweetest little monster you will ever meet! He loves to run and rough-house with other puppies and people! He also loves to sunbath and cuddle under blankies!!
Me and my Husband Joey went to Mexico for a friends wedding the end of June, we board Alpha at his Trainers K9 Companions (they are amazing) when we got him back a week later we noticed he was leanin on us alot kind of what rotties do. We figured he just missed us so we didnt think much of it. Maybe a week later we noticed him really favoring his right back leg, but hes such a maniac always running and jumping, once again we thought nothing of it he probably just landed funny or stepped on something. Then we started our journey across the country. My husband is in the Marine Corp so we moved from Southern California to Beaufort South Carolina. After resting Alphas leg for a week being stuck in the back of a jeep we figured he’d be all better when we arrived. The following weeks his limp seemed to stay the same he ran around and it didnt seem to bother him other then the limp. Then what seemed like over night his left rear knee swell up the size of an egg!! so we brought him to the vet the very next day. (we lucked out our vet from Cali who has known both kaylee and alpha since day one, just so happened to move to Columbia SC) From what we told him he figured it was a soft tissue injury maybe a very small simple fracture so he gave us some anti inflammatory and a sedative to relax him and help him heal. Giving that a try for 2 weeks with lil to NO improvement we brought him back to Dr Hansche, did some X-rays and it didnt look good a cloudy mass was pushing the head of his fibula away from the tibia. He did warn us if Alpha was a rottie or shepard hed say it was cancer but because Thai Ridgebacks dont have any health problem he wanted to do a biopsy.. So Here we are…..Yesterday we got the call our worst nightmare… Alpha has what looks to be a soft tissue Sarcoma, we would need a larger sample to biopsy to rule out bone cancer. We have an appointment with an oncologist (Dr Rissetto in Charleston SC) Monday at 4pm…..
I am so thankful that i stumbled across this site, Everyone has been so warm, supportive, and positive!! We have alot of options and life changing decisions to make! I feel like we r racing the clock now Alpha went from 100% perfectly healthy to having a baseball sized tumor on the side of his knee IN 2 MONTHS! My husband is also scheduled to go on a mini deployment to Arizona Sept 3rd- Nov 4th so not to sound like a baby but i might be left alone during alphas surgery!
Thank You for listening to Alphas story, Plz send Prayers and Positive Energy to my Baby Boy
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- 6 weeks old Bring him Home
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- Sunbathing
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- Alphas first Xmas
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- Alpha and Kaylee
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- Sharing big sisters leg
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- Attempting to Fix his Soft ears
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- Car Ride!
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- Daddy Harassing the Blue Man
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- Daddy harassing Kaylee Girl
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- Best Buds
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- I love My Big Sister
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- Stair watcher!
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- Plz dont take my baby bed
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- Little Dude
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- Silly Man
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- Easter
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- Pooped from Dog Beach
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- Ridegbacks love Lattes
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on August 8th, 2013 at 12:40 am
I am so happy that you found this site!! It was such a blessing for us as well. We had a simiar FAST situation and without the support we found here I don’t know what we would have done!!
Good luck with the doctor on Monday! Please be sure to update us. As for now just love Alpha and spoil him like crazy!! I know your life is hectic right now but just try to take things one day at a time. Be happy and positive for Alpha, and come here when you need to be upset for awhile. We all totally understand and are here to support you through this trying time.
Lisa and Tank