[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Disconcerting Question
- From: Shirley Briggs O'Brien <alma_gsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: edangsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:15:52 -0700
I heard this announced several times during the week. I did not pay a
lot of attention to what it was about as I did not have a dog at the
National. But I did hear the words "blood draw."
Thanks, Ann, for letting your dogs donate blood for this important research.
Shirley
edangsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Kathaleen,
> Nine of my dogs had a large syringe put in their leg on Friday. They were on
> a grooming table in the aisle. They were donating blood for cancer research.
> Pedigrees will be sent as a follow up on this much needed research.
>
> Ann
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kathaleen Strong" <inflight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:47:41 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Disconcerting Question
>
> Okay, color me a dreamer, but I've never seen this before so need to ask
> about this on the list.
>
>
> While walking down the aisles from my stall to where the show was being
> held, I happened to approach a group of people standing around a grooming
> table which was in the aisle with a dog on the table. This is a fairly
> normal thing to see, so I really didn't pay that close of attention, as I
> was on my way to go watch the dogs. As I came alongside the people and dog,
> I noticed out of the corner of my eye, the dog appeared to be being flanked
> by the people to be "held still" while one of the people had the dog's
> foreleg in a vice-grip type hold and a rather large syringe in the other. I
> cannot distinctly tell whether the syringe was being put in or being
> withdrawn, but something of that nature was obviously taking place.
>
>
>
> I thought by the look of the syringe, it was far too big for someone
> administering a vitamin like B-12, and certainly the way the leg was being
> held, it appeared they may have been administering something IV, which B-12
> wouldn't be administered like that. I don't really know because I've never
> seen anything like this happening at a show - probably I'm too oblivious,
> but. now, that I have seen it, I want to know what I potentially saw?
>
>
>
> I asked a few people, and they said they had heard that some
> exhibitors/handlers were injecting dogs with diet drugs or some other
> performance enhancing drug. Is this possible? And if so, wouldn't it be
> considered highly unethical and certainly dangerous to the dogs?
>
>
>
> Kathaleen
>
>
>
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