Robo

The call came from the vet himself. “Can you take a four month old Great Pyrenees pup with its lower jaw broken on both sides? The owners accidentally hit him with their car and want to euthanize him rather than spend the money to fix him!” So that is how Robo, the Pyrenees pup, came to be a SPIN dog.

The vet fixed him up, putting an external fixator on his jaw and sewing up the laceration on his chest. Robo could eat only canned food for the first four weeks. And because of the external fixator, which already had to be cleaned twice a day, he was spoon fed rather than eating from a bowl. He became so good at it that he could eat and not spill a drop. In those four weeks he went from eating three cans a day to eating six, growing by leaps and bounds. Then he was released to begin eating dry kibble to strengthen his jawbone. After six weeks, the fixator was removed and he was good as new. Although he only has baby teeth in the front of his mouth, there is nothing wrong with his back teeth, which he has proved by growing to be about 110 pounds. Bo, as he is now called, was adopted and lives the good life in Missouri with his new mom, Rosemary, and two other rescued pyrs.