[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: SWIMMERS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
- From: "Beryl" <arelee_1020@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Elsyd1@xxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:49:20 -0700
I tend to agree with Syd.
The first swimmer I had was from a small litter. I would need to go back to
my records to find the exact count. However from my first litter of 11 along
with the majority, I found that if you have 6-8-10 puppies lining up at the
"feeding station", they position themselves somewhat on their side's.
If you have only one or two, they are flat on their belly.
After observing this with a litter of 2, and having a swimmer in a previous
small litter(different sire and dam) I made up sock pups to place in the
whelping box with them. Their dam didn't seem to mind.
I would fill a sock with several rolled or knotted socks and these "sock
pups" were about the size of a pup. This gave the whelps something to line
up against, and they tended not to lay as flat as they would otherwise.
Necessity is the mother of invention!
Beryl Eshom
Arelee GSD
Davis, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: <Elsyd1@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:30 PM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: SWIMMERS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
>
> In a message dated 5/31/2007 3:40:08 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> EKOLAN1@xxxxxxx writes:
> Be quick to correct the swimmer as young as possible so that he/she can
> live
> as normal a life as possible. But remember the swimmer syndrome is more
> often than not hereditary do not use it for breeding. The puppy lives a
> good
> life
> the breed avoids another pitfall. Everyone wins.
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> I disagree. I have never found swimmer syndrome to be hereditary, thru
> over
> 7 generations of my dogs, with a rare swimmer, maybe 4 in 30 years.
> Inherited from where? If the parents did not exhibit it, and the
> grandparents didn't,
> and on and on, how can it be hereditary? I have bred a swimmer, and
> subsequent progeny, no swimmers from those animals. My ROM Andretti bitch
> Safari had
> a swimmer in her first litter. She never had another, and in two other
> Andretti sister breedings to the same male, no swimmers. I believe it
> comes from
> puppies that like to sleep on their tummies, much as babies who sleep on
> their
> backs can develop a flat head, unless turned. Simple cause and effect, in
> my
> opinion. Shalom, Syd
>
>
> SYD MAILBERG
> _WWW.KINGSWOODGERMANSHEPHERDS.HOMESTEAD.COM_
> (http://www.kingswoodgermanshepherds.homestead.com/)
>
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