Sad Not Mad....

[cannibalgoldfish]

I am friends with this family. They are really great people and no, I wont be disowning them after this but it is still sad. The younger brother got a husky last year? They bought her from a registered breeder (They did tell me the prefix and I googled it but have forgotten) She is a beautiful girl. When he bought her he told me they were going to breed her. I tried to convince him to show her so they would have an idea if she was good enough to breed and his answer was along the lines of "the breeder said she was"

Anyway, I was talking to his dad recently and he mentioned something about this dog having puppies recently. But when I asked if the had decided to breed her after all (was hoping they had changed their mind) he said the neighbours dog, a rotty cross had jumped the fence So I said "I guess they will be getting her desexed now" and the reply was "no! they wont get her desexed! Next time they will breed her to a husky and then they can sell the pups"

Now these people are good people, but I cant educate them any more than I have tried. I do wonder about the breeder though. Did he/she care or not when they sold them this dog.? From what they said when they got her they were honest straight up about wanting to breed. This guys wife just had a baby and I mentioned the dog and he said they would just keep the dog outside from now on.....

[sandgrubber]

There are some great people who are naive about dogs. It's sad. Unfortunately, lots of oops litters have similar stories attached. The results are often the opposite of designer dogs . . . animals whose cross breed pedigree tends to turn people off, and which have a relatively poor chance of ending up in good homes unless the owners put a lot of effort into homing them. Lets hope its a small litter and causes them so much grief that they go for the spey job.

Edited February 18, 2010 by sandgrubber

[megan_]

There are some breeders who advertise full papers, no breeding restrictions. Some used to even advertise on DOL (seems more common with blue staffords).

There are soooo many huskies on pounds....

[corvus]

One of our dog park regulars is currently bringing his Staffy pup who is in heat to the dog park. He says to us "She finally came in heat!" I didn't ask. It's his dog and if I knew I'd only ruin the amicability of our dealings from here on in.