[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: How many litters should one bitch have...

  • From: "arycrest@xxxxxxxxxxx" <arycrest@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windwych@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:58:08 GMT

Dawn - in your opinion, what percentage of GSDs that you see in shelters and 
rescues are well bred - the type you'd expect members of the GSDCA to produce - 
versus those coming from poor quality stock via accidental breedings, BYBs or 
mills?  
Gayle & the Hooligans!
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=6&uid=4294023 - Link to The 
Hooligans Albums

-- 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


  
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