[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: How many litters should one bitch have...
- From: Elsyd1@xxxxxxx
- To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:26:38 EDT
Dawn, perhaps you would be happier on a list that is anti breeding, anti
showing, etc. You seem to have found a place where you can espouse your agenda
without reprisal. You are definitely preaching to the choir on this list, no
need to batter us with all this fresh horror, day after day. Do you show dogs?
Do you have a purebred dog? If so, someone had to breed that dog, and make
sure it had a good home...yours. That is what we do with our puppies, if we
choose to breed....we work very hard to find good homes. There is a place for
everything in this world, and a time for everything. This may be the time, but
this list is not the place. Syd
In a message dated 10/10/2006 11:21:35 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
windwych@xxxxxxxxx writes:
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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