Rebanne

well you need to do your own research instead of continually putting out misinformation. I have been correcting you on this issue for years.

I'm so sorry that this time has come but Kuges is lucky to have you to make the tough calls for him. I have the vet come to the house and have always let the other dogs sniff their pack mates body after wards. I have no idea if it helps the remaining dogs or not, none ever seemed any different. But I personally prefer my dogs done at home rather than the vet.

you keep adding sighthounds, none have a known sensitivity to ivermectin, otherwise there would be a lot of dead greyhounds around.

me too, just cause your dog lets you check it's teeth at home or in the show ring, getting the mouth wide enough, for long enough, to do a proper job would be very difficult.

not a risk when done responsibly, plenty of entire dogs, of both sexes, have never produced a puppy.

Rugerrun has 3 and a baby, dogs are lovely and are pets

I kept GSD bitches together for over 25 years with never a problem ( different ones ) mostly desexed at 6 months but one was entire until 3. My entire greyhound bitch I have to watch with the smaller cross bred, speyed, bitch and I had to return a speyed greyhound bitch due to her attitude to my smaller bitch. So sometimes it work very well with no work, sometimes it works very well with a little bit of hard work, sometimes it is ok with a lot of hard work and sometimes it doesn't work at all.

chipom = no such breed needs to take the dog to the vet

Greyhounds can be genetically brindle without showing an obvious stripe

Can you provide a linky to that? I've heard alot of 'reasons' for HD but not that one. Side note: I wasn't asking you why so defensive, I was asking Rebanne. and I wasn't defensive at all, just don't like people not being upfront about their intentions

Why so defensive? It's irrelevant what the original post was anyway, the dog has HD, no one will ever know how it got it, both the parents were hip scored then at least the breeder was doing the right thing to start with, one would hope the breeder would give you some support and advice upon finding out though? I felt the thread was sneaky. At least I am honest about what I am thinking.

Actually I have a bit of a problem with you. Why weren't you up front at the beginning of this thread?

sorry to hear about your dog but HD can crop up from anywhere, you can have generations of dogs with no HD but then one is produced. Dogs are dogs and things can and do happen. Buying from a registered breeder who health tests only lessen's the chances of your dog ending up with a problem, it doesn't eliminate them. Won't comment on your breeder's reaction because there is only one side of the story being told. You do know how a pup is reared can also cause HD don't you?

hmm 1st prize could come in handy

why? Yes why? I've never owned a rescue dog or a crossbreed and I never will, I'm a purebred dog snob and proud of it. I have 3 purebred dogs of my chosen breed, one of which is a rescue. Doesn't make him any less a pure bred though, I just don't have his papers. In answer to your question of why have a rescue ? That would be to change the life of one dog....it can still be a purebred all the same. I change the lives of all my dogs

You are aware that a lot of breeds started out as crosses, until they eventually got accepted as a purebred? :D hence the 1000 years selective breeding bit A lot haven't been a purebreed that long. true but mine are and most have over 100 years, that's a lot of generations as opposed to the dog next door getting to the bitch down the street, or the ones on the puppy farms. and FWIW I have a 13 yo pound puppy here as well

sorry for the loss of the pup but can I ask why the pup wasn't vaccinated again at 8 weeks? Cause I thought that if you vaccinated at 6 weeks you then did them again at 8 weeks, then 12 weeks? I thought that's what happened some (many) years ago when I bought a pup that had been vaccinated at 6 weeks. I give mine their 1st vacc at 8 weeks so am not sure of the protocol

You are aware that a lot of breeds started out as crosses, until they eventually got accepted as a purebred? :D hence the 1000 years selective breeding bit

:D how very true

yes and you were deep in conversations so it was only helloooooooooooo lol

Cuts both ways.

desex the underdog only

why?

no salukis today

no way, when did getting a purebred dog become bad? Don't all dogs deserve good homes? Why are pound dogs more deserving than purebred dogs?