Well, I asked, but I see Myra's answered my question about swimmers already. I must
say, however, that this statement blew me away
Myra wrote:
> Actually, the books say that they are more common in smaller litters as they
> don't move as much and they have a large supply of milk. We had a swimmer
> in a litter of one. Two swimmers in a litter of two, and a swimmer in a
> litter of six. My friends had two swimmers in a litter of two, and my other
> friend had two swimmers in a litter of two. Myra
I think maybe y'all must be doing something very wrong. I've been breeding dogs
for
an awfully long time now,
and so have most of my friends......and I could count the number of swimmers we've had
between us all on one hand and have fingers left over. We've all had litters of 1, 2,
4, 6, up to a dozen or more--and after seeing your posts on this, I checked with them
and each of the swimmers we know of were in litters of 5 or more. One was in a litter
of 13 (not Cavaliers).
I will agree that many vets know very little about swimmers--most vets are "pet
vets," and more and more, vets seem to be anti-breeder. I pity those people who are
new
to dog breeding and especially new to Cavaliers...if the breed does die out, it won't
be
for the reasons Laura mentioned, but because no one is going to want to bother with
this
sickly, diseased breed.
Peggy
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