Hirschi Kisses: Dodger

We would like everyone to meet Dodger Brutus Hirschi!! He is an American Eskimo. Dodger was born on June 10, 2012. We are so happy to have him be a part of our little family. We found him on KSL from a family from Guadalajara. They had a hard time speaking English, but Braden sure loved speaking to them in Spanish. Dodger's parents are both American Eskimos. He was one of a litter of eight. When we went to go pick him up, there were only three males left. So when we first got to their house, they brought out the puppies. And right from the start I had a connection to him, he stole my heart and I knew right away that he would be a part of our family!

Right after picking him up. All of the dogs were in different color t-shirts.

The first couple days he slept a lot and seemed scared of us. But once he realized that we were his new parents he lightened up and acted like himself. He is doing pretty good with potty training, but like any other puppy, he has his accidents.

After having him for a week Braden and Dodger were playing in the backyard and Dodger "did his business" and so Braden was cleaning it up and Dodger decided to dart up the deck stairs. He was watching Braden and stuck his little head in between the deck posts, and his leg got caught on the post and he fell 7 feet off the deck onto the cement. I have never seen Braden run that fast before and also his face looked so scared. Dodger landed on his face and his front two legs. He was screaming/crying alot, his mouth was bleeding, shaking and unable to walk on his front right leg. We felt so terrible and thought we had failed as puppy parents. We took him right over to the veterinarian to get him checked out to see if he was ok. Besides a cut up mouth and gums, he was ok!!! No internal bleeding, no broken bones, he was ok. We felt very lucky. I hope Dodger isn't accident prone like his Daddy(Braden)