[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: How many litters should one bitch have...
- From: Edwin Hill <edwinx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windwych@xxxxxxxxx, freelist <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:44:41 -0700 (PDT)
Dawn...your post was compelling...but I missed your solution or answer to the
question "How many litters should one bitch have".......if I were to make an
inference from your post ( and I did) I would believe your answer would be to
not breed dogs at all...hypothetically that would be the only way to solve all
the problems you mentioned. It would be my guess that most people who breed
often are guilty of none of the things you mentioned, but yes I agree those
horrible incidents you cited are out there...how do we solve man's cruelty to
animals when we can't solve man's cruelty to man.....this stuff is getting to
heavy...somebody tell a joke please...FB
Dawn Restuccia <windwych@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Having been away from this
infernal thing for a few days, I fear I have missed some of the threads being
discussed.. Important threads, such as the weather for the national, various
brags, who is wearing what to the National dinner, etc. Somewhere, amid the
questions, there was one post that asked, "How many litters should one bitch
have". It appears that there was some rather heated debate on this issue. One
person replied that it depends on how good of a producer she is; which as we
are ALL painfully aware, cannot usually be proven until the pups have actually
WON something in the show arena, or until they are over the age of six months.
This is when they can be OFA'd and hopefully all teeth are in and ears are up.
In the meantime, what has become of those other five or six bundles of joy who
were placed in companion homes? Has there been a divorce, or a death in their
adopted family? Or worse yet, have they been unceremoniously dumped in a
shelter because they shed on the designer couch and their owner couldnt locate
your phone number quick enough?
When trying to determine how many litters are enough, take a moment and go to
the GSDRescue site in your area...look at the faces there who are waiting for a
chance at a decent life. Dogs who are senior and confused as to what they did
wrong to end up like this. Puppys who have been traumatized (like Diane's
little rescue Lilly...such a tortured soul) by people who appeared to care at
the interviews, only to take the pup home and tie him to a kitchen table leg
because he was "in the way". Then there are the dogs who have just had NO
training and been deemed unadoptable....their humans have failed them miserably
and their next stop is a cold table and the blue solution in their veins.
When you are at the National this year, watching those gorgeous, well groomed
and fed treasures sidegait around the ring, please remember the GSD who is
sitting under a porch with 8 babies...trying to catch squirrels to feed her
brood, slowly starving to death....the GSD who is chained in the mud to a dog
house, with scraps to eat and no warm bed; forgotten by his owner...the GSD who
is used as a bait dog for a pit bull fighting ring; bloody and near death...
the GSD who was beaten by his owner with a baseball bat so badly that he lost
his ability to walk and was spending his life dragging himself around a
concrete pen at a shelter...
or perhaps the GSD whose owner had poured muriatic acid on him just for kicks...
Then ask yourself....how many litters are enough.
Dawn Restuccia
---------------------------------
Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com
============================================================================
POST is Copyrighted 2006. All material remains the property of the original
author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind
are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the
Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY
MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS
PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY
FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE
PROSECUTED.
For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
VISIT OUR WEBSITE - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues
============================================================================
============================================================================
POST is Copyrighted 2006. All material remains the property of the original
author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind
are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the
Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY
MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS
PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY
FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE
PROSECUTED.
For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx
VISIT OUR WEBSITE - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues
============================================================================
Other related posts:
