this woman sounds like everything bad about backyard breeders, obviously no reverence for life or compassion for suffering she is causing
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Sharon Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Sharon Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:08 PM > *Subject:* New Chihuahua > > Hello everyone...well...it looks like I WON'T be getting that little > chocolate Chihuahua. I talked to the "breeder" for over an hour last night. > Now I think I would be afraid to buy ANY of her dogs. I don't know the > number...but she has a LOT. She told me this little dog...who is a year > old...was bred...had to have a c section (in May) and the puppy died. As we > talked..she opened up and told me about all her dogs that had puppies and > the whole litter had died...or all but one died...or they lived to be a > couple of months old and then died...how some of her females died while > giving birth or right after because "their body turned on them"...that's a > new one to me. I think she has every color of Chi there is...but I can't > help but to think she has something bad going on in her blood lines....is it > me...what do you guys think? Do you think I should go check her out...see > what the dogs look like? My plan was to breed Sox...to what ever female I > buy...keep one puppy...Sox and the mother and have all three fixed. Now I'm > thinking of NOT breeding and just buying a female who is already spayed. I > don't want to go through the stress of having a dog spayed...I get VERY > upset when I have to leave my animals at the vet. I know just recently this > woman had 15 puppies "ready to go"...OH...and she sells to pet stores. But > I'm scared because of all the deaths she told me about...I couldn't handle > it...if I had a dog that had problems giving birth...or where the puppies > all died...or all but one died...I would get her spayed!! And she bred her > when she was less than a year old. I did ask her since that little chocolate > Chihuahua that I was going to buy...had one c section..would she have to > have a c section the next time...she said...."probably not"...she weighs > between 5-6 pounds. She said she just had a run of bad luck....is it bad > luck...or bad breeding? She said she takes her dogs to the vet...but to me > she didn't seem to have a connection to ANY of them...she talked about them > as though they were just a way for her to make money. Please let me know > what you think....Oh...one more thing...if I do breed Sox...I will just give > all the babies to family members...several of us have them already...that > way I will make sure they have good homes and I can visit them! I just want > one of Sox's puppies...he is such a good dog...he's the best dog I have ever > had...very loyal and loving..at least to me...haha...and he's > beautiful!~~~ Sharon > > -- Glenda Poquita, Molly, Isabella, Chandler and all the fosters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ponderosa Pomeranians "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei
