When I imagine how my dog was conceived..?
I got my best friend my dog from a local shelter. She came to me with illness and I have tried with her to battle them for a year. Her bone infections...
I got my best friend my dog from a local shelter. She came to me with illness and I have tried with her to battle them for a year. Her bone infections cause deformities and pain, while her skin infections cause bleeding lines like whip lashes. Needless to say, movement is painful and even my hand to gently stroke her causes her to tense up. She can have brief periods where her infections seem to be on the mend. For this time, 2 weeks if we're lucky, she enjoys life. Then they come back in full force. I have tried everything even alternative medicine like acupuncture and laser treatments. Twice now I have been forced to acknowledge euthanasia and my eyes fill with tears.
So I think about how she was conceived. I guess someone who had a dog wanted to see cute puppies. Wanted their dog to experience motherhood. Wanted to make a little extra money the "easy way." And in doing so passed on this auto immune disease to my dog. I imagine the person never considered the puppies future as anything but how healthy their own dog looked on the outside. How cute she looked. Tail wags, nose is cold, and tongue kisses so that is a great dog to breed?
When I imagine how my dog was conceived, I imagine that person never considered that I would be eating canned sardines nightly for dinner to save enough money for the thousands I spend a week on my dog. Or that someone would love this dog who came into her life at the right time and saved her life, now only for her to watch her dog die, not able to return the favor no matter what she does. My dog's genes are against her. Her body attacks itself.
If you are considering breeding your dog do you think about this?
Thanks for allowing me to "ask" this.
By the way, she is 4 years old.
She has been seen by 8 vets if you want to include the emergency one. They are the best I could find around here. Vets do not vaccinate sick dogs. And she eats a raw food diet, but we have also tried homecooked. Her meat is organic and free ranged. Last I heard, Peta was against all breeding, not just breeding without genetic health tests so no I am not a member of peta.
How I wish this would make some of the BYBs here think twice about breeding their pets without health testing, but sadly I doubt it will. None ever seem to see themselves in harsh light, and they will think "That dog probably never went to the vet, was obviously sick and the people bred it anyway. My dog just had a checkup and the vet said I could breed her". They don’t feel a sense of responsibility for the lives they create and I can’t understand why. How horrible to watch a dog suffer like that when it could have been prevented so easily
I know how it feels to face euthanization but you have to look at the quality of live the dog lives. She is in pain, deformed, skin problems, do right by her & let her go. Oh, so much easier said than done.
You are not doing her any favors by keeping her alive to suffer & hurt & live in misery.
It is a hard decision but it will eventually come to this. She trusts you to do your best for her & she isn’t having any fun or enjoying live.
How TALENTED is your vet? How many STEROIDS are they pumping her up with? What FOOD are you feeding? How many VACCINES has she been OVERvaccinated with?
Most of all, if she’s truly as sick as you describe, you have the ability to give her something humans do NOT have … a painless death.
BTW, are you a member of PeTA? Just sayin’ …
Sorry to hear about your dog it is a shame but unfortunately no one does think they just see the pound signs and thanks for sharing your story of your dog maybe some potential BYBs will read this and think again.
Amen!
I have a blind dachshund/mix that’s also epileptic, and her blood sugar drops at any given moment since she’s only 4 pounds. I wonder why anyone would breed a dog that had any type of issue that could possibly be carried on to the pups. Do they not know enough about genetics, or even care enough about it? People that breed who say they don’t need to test their dogs because they are just pets and not show dogs need to take a good hard look at cases like yours and see just what can happen, it’s NOT all about looking pretty in the show ring..
You have my sympathies, I hope you don’t have to face that ultimate decision.
Added: caring about bybs and the decline in dogs due to poor breeding practices has nothing to do with over the top PETA tactics..