Really angry. . .

We have three...two are rescues: one from a parking lot and one from being chained behind a mobile home. The world gets more upsetting everyday. More and more people have little value for any life!

You can't cure stupidity.....Dennis

Selling a business venture that didn't materialize sounds logical as the dogs most likely weren't pets to begin with.

azdryheat wrote:
Selling a business venture that didn't materialize sounds logical as the dogs most likely weren't pets to begin with.

X2.

azdryheat wrote:
Selling a business venture that didn't materialize sounds logical as the dogs most likely weren't pets to begin with.

The problem with this thinking is that the dogs ARE living creatures regardless of their designation as pet or breeding pair, and as such demand a responsibility by the owner. This not only includes ensuring proper medical care, dietary needs, and a clean environment, but also ensuring that they are not over-bred, neglected, nor subject to unnecessary psychological distress.

These people are dumping the dogs on others because they are too cheap/uncaring to 1) determine the health problem; and 2) ensure that the female dog does not continue to go through traumatic stillbirths.

If they actually thought of these dogs as anything other than a get rich quick scheme, they would at the very least neuter the dogs before rehoming them.

Scottiemom wrote:
A daughter of a friend has a pair of Welsh Corgis. They apparently

bought them as a breeding pair but multiple litters later...

,.... I could scream... I want to lecture her,......

THIS is WHEN you should have started lecturing them on what a backyard breeder is if you would have had the chance to.

No different then a puppy mill. Selling dogs for the sole purpose of 'making money'. I could just strangle people that do that. :(

Good thing telling them about corgi rescue. Hopefully they will give these people a sharp piece of advice about breeding these dogs again.

rockhillmanor wrote:

Scottiemom wrote:
A daughter of a friend has a pair of Welsh Corgis. They apparently

bought them as a breeding pair but multiple litters later...

,.... I could scream... I want to lecture her,......

THIS is WHEN you should have started lecturing them on what a backyard breeder is if you would have had the chance to.

No different then a puppy mill. Selling dogs for the sole purpose of 'making money'. I could just strangle people that do that. :(

Good thing telling them about corgi rescue. Hopefully they will give these people a sharp piece of advice about breeding these dogs again.

I can assure you I would have said something rockhillmanor, but I didn't even know they had dogs. We fulltime and I only discovered this situation when she posted about the last litter a few weeks ago. The puppies are born live, then start to die. The last two litters all died in a matter of days. The adult dogs are 3 and 4, so she's pretty much been having litters at every heat. They are kept inside the home and appear to be well cared for. I don't know when they decided to breed them or if it happened by accident the first time and then they decided to keep trying. I know they have consulted a vet, but to find the problem would require $$$$$. Then I saw her put them up for sale and I was shocked. But I would really like for her to put them in rescue. She needs to neuter them before doing anything and I'm going to suggest that.

Dale

THIS is WHEN you should have started lecturing them on what a backyard breeder is

if you would have had the chance to.

Just so you know I only meant to infer those people should have been nipped in the bud when they bought a "breeding pair". Not that you could have done more. :C

Them saying it was a genetic flaw sounds like just a coverup lie. How could any novice person know that for a fact. Not to mention I'm sure they did not have the money for autopsies or dna testing either to prove it. Grrr.

I found people who backyard breed no absolutely nothing about whelping and ensuring that they are nursing properly. They think "the dogs do it in the wild alone, so mine can too". :R

How sad 16 puppies died and it's my guess is they simply were not getting enough nourishment.

There are some females that just don't produce enough milk. And sadly it's usually because the owner is not feeding them enough prior to and during whelping to produce the milk sufficient to feed the pups. It really sounds like they starved to death.

Did they buy them at the same time from the same breeder? Chances are they were closely related, if not brother and sister. I know of someone (a family friend) who bought two dogs from the same breeder. Turns out they were closely enough related for the puppies to be born blind, deaf, or both.

Selling a business venture that didn't materialize sounds logical as the dogs most likely weren't pets to begin with.

X3. At least they had the decency to find a loving home for them. Some would have put the dogs down. If they were well-cared for in the breeder's home then my only complaint is they waited after multiple litters to realize there was a problem. Yes, pets are forever but these obviously weren't pets. Would you be as harsh on someone who had a circumstance change and gave their pet up for adoption? I doubt it.