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About a week after I created Cearrean’s page under “Our Deerhounds” stating that he is cryptorchid, I saw, when he was lying very relaxed on his back, that his scrotum looked a little more stuffed than normal. After further investigation, it appeared that his left testicle had descended! In the days that followed it would still go up and down but now for the most part it is there.

The strange thing is that when Cearrean was about 18 weeks old, a specialist had said the left testicle was atrophy and the right one had not descended. Earlier investigations had also shown that it was possible to feel things, but after a while everything had disappeared. At the last ultrasounds when Cearrean was about six months old, after a long search the right testicle could be seen in the abdominal cavity and the left in the groin canal! All very strange.

I had already given up hope and checked nothing until that ….

This made me very curious and on December 2 I had Cearrean ultrasound again and it turned out ….. the right testicle is now halfway through the groin canal and there is a small chance that it will descend even further. So who knows, Cearrean will be complete in a few weeks!

Yes, if you have been frozen for 27 years, everything takes a little longer.

But how is Cearrean doing? His knee remains a tricky point; it is thickened on the inside, which irritates the belt that runs over it with prolonged movement. The specialist has said that it may take a while before the thickening is resolved, but in the end it must be all right. The problem is of course not to let Cearrean move too much, but he thinks it’s never enough!

Furthermore, he is now 84 cm. high and weighs 44.6 kilos. He has many very good points such as high set and correct carried small ears (the right one is slightly smaller than the left due to the missing point!), a super long tail, a perfect coat, beautiful dark eyes, beautiful strong feet with rubber balls, strong bone, a very beautiful parallel head without stop, he stands correct with a slightly sloping pastern on his paws and goes with a straight legs. His minus points are; a slightly too steep shoulder and his entire front could lay a bit more back, his lumbar curve could also be a little stronger. But well, he had that from the beginning and it will stay that way. We had to wait what his hind angulation will do, this due to the knee injury. As a puppy he had a nice angulation so it can still come back. Cearrean is very verbal and active and I hope he will be more coöperative when he gets defrosted and older!

It remains a special child!