Six years later I still call her with questions, and she has yet to make me feel dumb for asking them. She enjoys seeing our growing boy and all of his antics. Dog expert Susan Paulis and her family have both owned and showed purebred dogs since When Susan got her champion labrador, she knew that if her dog ever went to the vet, even for a teeth cleaning, there was a particular sedative that could be deadly to her pup. She knew this because a dog in its line had died from an allergic reaction to this particular sedative.
Like babies, puppies need the best care right from the very moment they take their first breath. Proper care and weaning is standardized among reputable breeders, insuring that your pup will develop into a happy and healthy dog. Was it given the proper nutrition? Was it abused? Was it weaned too early? There is simply no way of knowing, and these earliest moments can affect a dog for life.
Every dog breed has a purpose. Every purebred dog has natural instincts, which are truly something to marvel at during its playtime. My cousin has an Old English sheepdog that keeps an eye on her four young children by herding them into one area of the backyard. I find that intriguing since she never trained her dog to do so, he just does it. She recognized his natural instinct to herd and allowed him to do his job. My own breed, the Italian spinone, is known for its acute sensitivity, so my guy is a therapy animal.
THIS is what we as the veterinary profession need to be focusing on!! Those who think this thought process is normal are very backward.
And continued unnecessary breeding in my mind is doing harm to the entire canine population. Think of the big picture people. Tens of thousands of dogs euthanized every day due to over breeding? If we have pet overpopulation, why are we importing tens of thousands of dogs from other countries? Thank you for pointing out the elephant in the room. Imports with parasites new to us, health issues like the Korean canine influenza, etc.
Oh,and the other elephant? Irresponsible owners. I used to spend a lot of time in the office of a busy practice that catered to breeders of purebred dogs, tho they accepted any dog as a client. Occasionally being curious about this very issue I would tally what came into the waiting room on a typical busy day. This myth proposed by this vet was debunked by scientific studies in the s.
Mixed breeds demonstrated more than 29 different genetic diseases than did the purebred dogs who were sponsored by a kennel club. The reason the purebred dog owners and breeders sponsored scientific studies to eliminate genetic issues. No one does that for the mixed breeds. This myth was pushed by the big bucks HSUS group whose interest is in pushing the mixed breed dog for monetary reasons. According to the latest research by Bellumori and his group, this assumption does not seem to hold.
I have moved many times in recent years, and one of my priorities when arriving in a new location is to identify a vet that I can respect and trust to care for my dog. Who do I ask?
Purebred dog owners and breeders, particularly those who utilize genetic health screening protocols, who are lifelong learners, and who are involved in dog showing and performance events. If excellent owners and breeders of healthy purebred dogs are not giving a veterinarian their business, and consequently the veterinarian sees primarily deficient dogs, perhaps that veterinarian should reexamine his or her skill set and attitude. She understood that this is a cat….
It is pretty obvious when she follows up with you next sentence b. It is pretty obvious when she follows up with you next sentence with even CATS are not immune! Khuly is an odd person to speak out strongly against purebred dog breeding on health grounds.
She is an ardent supporter of pit bull breeders. The average pit bull has good structural health and good fertility, but their well-established aggression toward their own species is a temperament deformity every bit as crippling and deadly — to itself and to others — as the facial deformity of the brachy breeds.
And that aggression turns into real-world shortened lifespans as an enormous number of pit bulls die as young adults for being unwanted, ownerless and too violent to be rehomed. She fails to offer an alternative to purebred dogs. This is not a practical solution. Dingo proto-dogs are the result of completely random, uncontrolled breeding. They do not exist in the US today.
It fails to address the fact that shelter and rescue dogs are all products of purebred breeding — there are very few oops litters of actual mutts in the US today. And the explosion of pit bull breeding, protected by lobbyists like Dr. Khuly, has sent thousands of animals into very expensive vet care and extended rehab, after they encountered powerful dogs of breeds developed to fixate on, confront, attack and kill other animals without regard for normal social behaviors.
Both actions create more money for the vet by creating more misery for the owners and the dogs. There are plenty of purebreds I would not want either but others think they are the greatest.
Stop setting yourself up as the breeding and owning police! How did we get to this situation? But by the early 20th century, when dog shows became popular, the bulldog had acquired squat, bandy legs and a large head with a flattened muzzle.
This altered figure makes it nearly impossible for them to reproduce without assistance, and the facial changes cause severe breathing problems in a third of all bulldogs. Large head size and short legs are part of the written standard, so Serpell believes these standards would have forced the bulldog into extinction if breeders did not rely on artificial insemination.
Despite the negative effects of controlled breeding, animal science experts point to the value of selecting for consistency. When choosing a dog as a pet, consumers look to the breed standard for certainty. Healthy choices With the search for consistency yielding unforeseen flaws, however, who is to blame? Although the AKC sets the breed standards , it is principally a registry organization and has little control over the actual breeding process.
Famula believes dog breeders hold the highest responsibility because they make the decisions about which dogs to mate. But researchers like Famula and Jerold Bell , a geneticist at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, note that breeding practices are greatly influenced by the puppy buyers who Bell believes are largely ignorant about genetic issues.
When purchasing a puppy, buyers can ask for medical tests and family history of diseases; but this rarely happens. Ethical breeders health test not only the dogs they use for breeding, but also subsequent puppies thereby increasing the odds that youngsters they place in new homes will have long, healthy lives.
While specific genetic disorders are known to exist in certain breeds, dedicated breeders monitor their dogs with every intention of eliminating the disease by eliminating afflicted dogs or carriers from their breeding program. Furthermore, a study conducted at the University of California, Davis of approximately 90, purebred and mix-breed dogs found that more than half of the genetic disorders included in the study were prevalent in about same number of mix-breed dogs as in their purebred counterparts.
In the final analysis, these studies have concluded that purebred dogs are no more prone to genetic disorders than are mix-breeds, and to suggest otherwise is misguided. Breeders invested in their respective breeds carefully screen prospective homes to ensure that their puppy is placed with owners for whom the breed is the right fit. Many breeders stay in touch with new puppy owners to provide care and grooming instructions when needed, and most want to be notified of significant life reversals, such as death or divorce, that will impact a dog they bred whatever its age at the time.
Often, deep friendships are formed through purebred dogs, and this can be a great comfort to the elderly, the lonely, young families, and singles. Though it probably should be the last reason to buy a purebred dog, there is something to be said for helping preserve a species at a time when several dog breeds are at risk of vanishing in our lifetime.
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