[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: It's dangerous not to know was swimmers
- From: "robert dir" <dir@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx>, <EKOLAN1@xxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:11:33 -0500
I have only had one swimmer Kathy--and yes it was the hogger of the litter.
Sandi
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Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: It's dangerous not to know was swimmers
>
>
> In a message dated 6/1/2007 11:56:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> EKOLAN1@xxxxxxx writes:
> As with any problem we have in our dogs that we can fix such as swimmers
> there is always the possibility that it can get away from us not because
> we
> don't care but because we don't know for sure why it happens.
>
>
>
> I'll go with the multiple causes theory. I can't discount heredity. The
> swimmers I have seen haven't been mine, but they have been big, fat, lazy
> puppies who just never left the dairy bar and mom had so much milk in
> every case
> that they just laid flat and were gluttons. Common sense tells my that's
> more
> likely in small-ish litters when babies don't have to work fighting
> siblings
> to stay on a nipple. I can't discount what is used on the floor for a
> whelping box. If it's hard for puppies to get around, I can get my mind
> around
> some not working too hard at it especially the lazy, fat ones. I can get
> my
> mind around a puppy being positioned oddly in the womb too. Once in a
> while a
> puppy has an oddly shaped head that gets better in the first day or two,
> why
> not ribs somewhat flat? Especially if it was a large litter, a tough
> delivery or momma was particular small? It makes sense to me also that a
> puppy
> failing to thrive right after birth might lay too long on its chest,
> flattening
> soft ribs.
>
> If we wanted to see with any kind of clarity what role heredity played in
> all of this, we'd have to breed those that we knew or suspected were
> either born
> with it or had a litter mate and were suspected carriers, (keeping the
> other
> factors constant to the extent its possible to do so), and I know I don't
> have the stomach for that.
>
> Kathy, member GSDCA, DVGSDC
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