3 weeks ago, our friends from South Carolina came for a visit, and brought a 7 week old pure-bred Great Pyrenees puppy with them. He was adorable! Because he was so big for a puppy, my family and I decided to name him Eisenhower. Well..... after a few days, he started looking really sick. He was wheezing a lot and he would only move a couple of steps at a time and then he would plop down on the floor, and go to sleep. Also his nose was always really dry. So we decided to take him to the doctor. At first the vet said that it was Pneumonia. Just to be on the safe side, we called our friends from South Carolina. They told us that they had recently found out from the owners of the mother and father of Eisenhower, that while the mother was still pregnant with the puppies, both of the parents got in a fight with a raccoon! The father has had all of his shots, so he is fine. The mother hasn't, and she just recently died, along with both of Eisenhowers siblings. So the doctor changed his prognosis to Distemper. We only had Eisenhower for 14 days, when he died of a mix of Bacterial Pneumonia and Distemper.
