duke

Duke, the precious butterball pup my family adopted after he was abandoned in a Northport park. He's a little fighter because one week after coming home with us, he contracted an intestinal parasite and seven days after that, parvo. We didn't think he would make it, but he's proven he's got mettle...

A little over a week has passed since little Duke finally won his battle against Parvo. Lots of folks were pulling for him to make it and have since asked how he's doing, so here's a video of him last night.      

Duke is a very special puppy. If you haven't been introduced to him yet, read the last story I wrote about his health issues and how our family fell in love with him. Because he's the most amazing puppy in the world, I entered him in the Super Cute contest on Buzzfeed...

Only a day or so after bringing 9-week old Duke home, he began to get sick. I took him to the vet and not long after dropping him off received a phone call from the doctor. He was suffering from Coccidiosis, a parasitic disease that he'd picked up from his mother at birth...