New Puppy

So my mom and I are getting my dad a new german shepherd puppy for a christmas present. I cannot wait to see the look on his face when he gets it. You see to make a long story short my dad had a german sheperd dog this summer but he was ill. He was diagnosed with megaesphaogus when he was a puppy and we saved him because the breeder was going to put him down. However we were told at the time that with good health care management that he would be fine and live a full life. Well that was up until July 4, 2008, he was three years old when he passed. This was the hardest thing that I have ever gone through with my dad. You see I work in a vet clinic and my dad knew Duke was getting sick again and needed to be taken in for some management care. So he called me the day before he died in tears from his work begging me to please take Duke into work with me later that day to try to save him. So I took him to work with me and we did the usual health care management checkup that we always did on him. Yuppers poor Duke had pneoumia again but with some IV fluids and some cough tablets there was no reason why he should not have pulled through..... or so we all thought. I found Duke dead the next morning when I went to give him his cough tablet with blood pouring out of his mouth. The only explanation for this is that the infection was so bad it worked its way up into his pulmonary artery and bursts it causing him to bleed to death both internally and out. But enough with the sad story we are getting a new puppy and hopefully all goes well for my dad with this one.