Rebanne

Go straight to your local paper and local member

you mean the unknown pup of an unknown breed with an unknown problem? But apparently, locally, lots of people are talking about the breeder and what they should or shouldn't do.

I feel sory for the poor breeder. If you are only going on what you heard, which is reasonably detailed i.e. pup had 2nd, more indepth health check, prior to transport; then you can bet plenty of others have heard it and lots of people are talking about this breeder, which doesn't seem deserved.

Happy Birthday Stan :birthday: :birthday:

cause I am sick of breeder bashing which this is another one of. And if they do own this dog then they are liars which I also can't abide.

You know I am going to call you on this. I believe this is your pup. You bought it from another state and it was flown? to you. It now has something and you are trying to see if the transport could have caused damage (HD?) "Owner" chose to buy a pup and get it transported, by car, rail, plane. Only "owners" word that pup has been correctly cared for since. Strange first post if pup is not yours and there have been plenty of stories about "what if" where it turned out the poster was talking about their very own dog.

non-heritable condition, responsibility stops when pup leaves breeder. Whether breeder chooses to help out in some way, up to individual. I sold a pup once and saw photo's a week later. He looked like a walking skeleton. Buyer, who had been advised on all things to do with feeding growing large breed pup, was only feeding pup twice a day. Should I have been held responsible for any later issues? To get it so thin in a week would/could have upset poor pups whole system. Buyers have to take responsibility for how the pups turn out as well. 14 months down the track for trauma - what a laugh. Heart murmur months later, you know shit happens when you are dealing with a live being. You can do all the tests in the world, be as careful as you can be, both buyer and seller but you can't beat Mother Nature if she throws you a curve ball.

totally agree.

lets not get sidetracked with others. Lets start letter writing to the local papers.

yet you have a problem now

Mine never left the backyard (for a walk) and there were wandering male dogs in the street but I never had a moments trouble. No front gate either to keep them out.

Skip the rangers, go straight to the top.

Those are the only place I would trust. Do you understand what "opinion" means? I'll clarify it for you- in my opinion, those are the only two places to trust as far as getting cat safe rescue greys. And my opinion comes from rescuing the breed for several years (and cleaning up the tragic messes of greyhounds rehomed inappropriately with cats). It sh*ts me endlessly that people here aren't given the information they need to make informed and sensible decisions. A few fluffy stories about how lovely greyhounds are with cats is not the reality. Roughly 5% of racing bred greyhounds are cat safe. Those are not good odds to be playing with. If you think that's rubbish.. good for you :) argh must remember next time not to post fluffy stories about my greys and cats, nor the foster greys I have had that have been fine. And as so many greyhounds never make it to adoption and are killed instead maybe you could give the actual figures from GAP. They seem to rehome more then 5% of their total intake as cat safe.

Vic dogs can't tell you if your entered. Didn't you like the answers you got on FB?

You really need to do some research yourself on this. There is no need for any tablets or injection while the bitches levels are normal. You could be causing damage to your pups. Please research.

All of my GSD's and greyhounds have been ok with the cats, some better then others, as in will allow the cats to sleep with them. I fostered for GAP for a few years and only ever had problems with one they sent to me, the rest were cat tolerant with no problems. I'd be only allowing fostered adult dogs into my house with the cats.

I thought giving extra progesterone in the first half of pregnancy caused bad side effects in the puppies. Everything I have read says you supplement after 4-5 weeks and only do so after blood tests that show the level is starting to fall

a dog comes no where near a child's life.

Regarding the bolded part, if this happened to dogs you were breeding from, would this action be enough to stop you from breeding from them in the future? I'm genuinely asking because I know breeders work hard to produce stable temperaments in their puppies so I'm wondering how this behaviour fits in temperament wise. No it would not stop me as I consider it a fairly normal reaction.

I live in suburbia and have never had stray dogs at my gate when I have had a bitch in season. Just never happened.

why the injections?

The dogs may have shown no aggression until they had pups to protect. Yes stupid owner who did not not realise this and did not look after any of them properly. Dogs and pups should have been secure. My bitch would have killed any strange dog near her pups, the younger they were the more serious she would have been. Difference was I knew this and all were contained. Two dogs have paid the price for one owners stupidity and maybe one more.

agree

don't make this into a thing about extender leads. I'm not stupid and I use extender leads on greyhounds.