Some of the shelters really do care, but they also know that when it comes to the chi and the pit bulls there just isn't enough homes for them all. They look at the other side of the coin and feel it is better that they are PTS then too spend years sitting in a cage being depressed and not getting the medical help that they know they need, but can't give to them due to lack of funds.
They say that 90% of chis that are in shelters are from private breeders and not PMs. Private breeders are the hoarders, backyard breeders, and mostly hobby breeders. None of them do the math for each litter that is born. None of them make sure that they spay and neuter their pups before they sell them If they did that, you wouldn't have thousands of them in shelters and rescues from irresponsible owners that they sold them, and just let the breeding go on and on and on for each generation. The key here is to stop blaming the shelters, but blame the ordinary citizen for not neutering and spaying there dogs to begin with. I never believed in the government interceding with animal control until I realized the blight of so many over bred and unwanted dogs. I wish that the government would intervene on behalf of the chi and the bully breeds and ban breeding of them unless you are a licensed and twice yearly inspected breeder who wants to breed only to improve the breed. Of course there would be a list of other things to insure that the dogs are well taken care of and breeding is limited to one litter per year per female and then the dogs have to be spayed and neutered at five years old. Well that is all a dream, and I am afraid it is never going to happen. We can only spread the word and educate the general public, and pray the greed of making a few bucks off of helpless animals stops. Even now I would like to see a law that states every single dog has to be microchipped, and a data base that links the adult dogs to offspring, so that when dogs are found not only can they be traced back to the owner, but also make the owner responsible for the pups that the owner irresponsibly helped to breed. When you think of the whole scope of our animal world, we have the same problem with cats and horses. Greedy man is the problem, not the animals. Peggy -------Original Message------- From: Alice Date: 7/21/2013 5:25:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Collapsing Trachea Just a suggestion of doing that with humans and there'd be outrage. It's not right treating animals as if they don't have feelings. I didn't know there was only 3 days in shelter for pregnant dogs. That's sad. Wish I had a big enough place to house some of those slated to go down. \ \ /\ Alice ( ) [email protected] .( ). Sent from my iPad mini On Jul 21, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> wrote: The CA shelters give the preggie ones, or mom's with pups, 3 days for a rescue only to pull, or they are all pts on the 4th day. Most of the shelter strays that are preggie or have pups, have no way of knowing who the father is. Since the winter, chis on Petfinders has increased by over 1500. We now have over 18,000 chis that need homes, and that figure doesn't even show all the shelters or rescues that do not list there dogs, or show the thousands that have been put down. I have seen 2# chi's in the CA shelters just like the FL shelters and they too are put down due to lack of space and rescues are overloaded. It always gets worse in the summer and then again around the holidays. So heartbreaking....... Peggy -------Original Message------- From: Robin Gordils Date: 07/21/13 15:38:31 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Collapsing Trachea Yeah, the Puppy mills are probably buying the ones on Craigslist. There have been 3 preggo ones on there in the last month. Robin, Dobe Axel CGC, TT, German Pin Ranger CGC, TT, Chihuahuas Alice CGC and Monte CGC, MinPins HoneyB, Brutus, and IMPS foster Jordan Www.minpinrescue.org Www.chi-rescue.com Http://chihuahua.rescueme.org/Florida Alice <[email protected]> wrote: So sad rescues are turning away the pregnant ones. I can think of all kinds of things that could happen to them having been turned away. I'm glad I'm able to care for 2. Wish it were more. \ \ /\ Alice ( ) [email protected] .( ). Sent from my iPad mini On Jul 20, 2013, at 9:27 PM, GinbarMinPins <[email protected]> wrote: So sorry to read of this. Out of the hundreds of toy breeds I myself and my friends rescued only one had trachea issues and my vet said it is usually trama more then a defective gene. I know a BC who has one from damage from a chain collar. My toy breeds get walked on harnesses and my larger dogs on pinches unless at a show then a fur saver that would be less severe then a reg chain. Adopting an older pup or adult would lessen any medical problems. And the rescues here are turning away pregnant bitches and entire litters of purebred Chis. Robin, Dobe Axel CGC, TT, German Pin Ranger CGC, TT, Chihuahuas Alice CGC and Monte CGC, MinPins HoneyB, Brutus, and IMPS foster Jordan nbsp; www.minpinrescue.org www.chi-rescue.com Http://chihuahua.rescueme.org/florida -------- Original message -------- Subject: [Chihuahuas] Collapsing Trachea From: Gregory <[email protected]> To: [email protected] CC: We were devastated last week when we had to put our 10 year old female chi, Maya, down. She started caughing a couple of years ago and the vets told us that it was a collapsing trachea issue that would get worse over time. The caughing got worse 3 months ago and the vets gave us medication that helped for a little while. Unfortunately, last week our beloved Maya took a turn for the worst and Sunday she crossed over the rainbow bridge. We will be looking for another chi in the future and will contact several breeders. I was not familiar with this problem when we got her and the other generations of chis that the breeder had ranged in age from 3 to 13 and none had this issue. Are there anything that we should look for next time when we go to view puppies to possibly avoid this problem again or is it something that just happens. My wife and I are still heart sick. Greg
