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Woody (by Bernie) Woody was a gift to me so in that sense I was lucky I didn’t pay out the £300 hundred pounds the lady who bred him was charging for her litter! A litter that was brought into the world from one of those owners who thinks “ wouldn’t it be nice for my bitch to have a litter,” Someone who didn’t know the first thing about breeding dogs & that everything she did know came from just one book!! I know she never had her bitch health checked, even though I & several other people advised her to do so. The sire she used was a stud dog she got from an advert in a magazine. Woody came to us at 8 weeks of age, he was a gorgeous little black pup who fitted in lovely at our household. Already owning one black lab & a whippet Lurcher we were no strangers to having dogs. It wasn’t actually my intention of getting another dog but he came along anyway & was here to stay!
Then the next week he would be allowed 5mins exercise on lead, and it followed on from there, the week after that he would be allowed 10 mins , the week after that 15mins, the week after that 20 minutes leading up to 45 mins a day. Then it was a check up back at the specialists. We also had to slowly reduce the amount of painkiller through out this regime. He made real good progress & through it all he was such a happy little chap. The real reward was when after his 6 month check up with the specialist we could let the little man off the lead for some real pain free freedom!!
This is why health checks are important, that breeding dogs should be left to those who know what they are doing & have good experience at it, or if a beginner, that they have a respected and established breeder as a mentor. Not just the average dog owner who feels they’d like their dog to have puppies but knows nothing about the need for health checks. |