Those poor babies. Heartworm is awful.
So is parvo
*Sigh* “We have to raise our prices.”
“Another batch dead?”
“Yes. I can’t figure out what our problem is.”
Either this person has never had to deal with parvo, or they have and don’t give a shit about their dogs.
Or they’re just lying b because no reputable groomer, kennel, or vet would see them without at least rabies, parvo, and kennel cough vaccines.
Oh they don’t use those services. They dump them on a side road when they get sick.
Pure blood has always been the best path to health. That’s why the Habsburgs are a superhuman ruling class.
Best jaws anywhere in the world.
Sounds great right up until the dogs get heartworm and die young
Parvovirus is going to kill them way before the heartworms have a chance
These people need to be arrested and their dogs put in rescue homes. This is just basic animal cruelty.
These people need to be arrested and […] put in rescue homes.
That’s too good for them.
Not sure if this is still going on, but human antivax sperm and eggs were being marketed (almost certainly illegally) on facebook and ebay.
Because the covid vaccine was going to fuck up your entire genetic code, apparently, and you really need pure, unvaccinated donor material for a healthy baby…
Weren’t we supposed to die from our contaminated blood a couple years ago? Wonder when that’ll come around…
Usually people don’t advertise their cruelty to animals.
I read the monkey torture investigation by the BBC recently and I hate humans so much.
Aren’t purebreds like known for being incestuous?
So is Kentucky and they seem to be doing alright.
Do they?
I said “alright” not “great”
Yep. My mom’s Chinese Crested is the result of a mating between son and mother, so she got it for free. Amazingly, she’s a very pretty and very sweet dog with no health problems to speak of.
I’m against the whole purbred dog thing, but at least my mom gave one a good home.
Like these ones being bred by an irresponsible backyard breeder? Yes.
This is why you need to research your breeder–good ones put a lot of time and money into avoiding inbreeding. They do things like cooperate with each other to ‘borrow’ male dogs from one another or even going so far as to buy sperm from abroad and have the female artificially inseminated. They also keep careful records of lineage to help avoid accidental inbreeding.
But if you get a purebred from some random person or rescue, then yeah, it’s likely been inbred and not had the various health and genetic screenings that you would get from a good breeder.
Edit: For personal anecdote, I should share that the breeder I am going through for my next purebred puppy thought she had one for me with this litter, but he started developing health problems around 8 weeks old, so she decided she is not willing to sell / adopt him out until and unless he doesn’t have any serious health problems. She’s clearly very attached to him and it sounds like she wants to keep him regardless. She has already spent thousands of dollars trying to figure out what’s wrong with him, including expensive genetic testing.
And this is why the good breeders charge exorbitant amounts for their dogs.
