Meet Special Ed

 This first picture is Special Ed when he was still very young.  He was born in 2004, so in this picture he was probably about 1 year old.  He was originally my big brother Kris' puppy but life happens and he is now in our little family. 

This second picture was taken in 07 and I caught him right before he gave me kisses LOL.  Eddy's story is a weird one.  His Mom's name is Birdie Jean and she was out of one of my many litters too.  Almost all my babies are related one way or another, lol.  Birdie is one of our smallest pups and probably should never have had puppies but she she ended up actually going through 2 pregnancies.  Special Ed was the first puppy born to her.  She had a total of 3 pups her first litter and only 2 lived and her second litter, she only had 2 and only 1 lived.  He has the name Special Ed because he was born all messed up!  We did not think that he was going to live past a couple days but he surprised us and is still going strong.  When he was born, his legs were all cockeyed--he couldn't stand, he couldn't walk and his back two legs he just dragged.  Day by day he grew very little and started to be able to walk on his front legs but his back two just did not want to work.  We worked with him and loved him so much that after 5 months or so he started to gently use his back legs.  Now he is going strong and all his legs work great, he does walk like a cowboy that rides horses all the time LMAO!!  He is only maybe 4lbs and no matter how much we feed him, he never gets any bigger but he is a huge part of our family!