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hunting mad

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A few years ago i was looking for a chinese crested bitch,but was some what put off by the £1000 that i was going to have to spend!!
Any way,it seemed like fate when i came across an advert for chihuahua x cresteds local to me. I ended up with a hairless boy who we all love dearly.
To cut a long story short,when he was 2 years old,he suffered what the vet thought was a stroke.He was put on steroids and antibitotics,and seemed to improve,how ever a few days later he took a turn for the worse and sadly we had to have him put to sleep.The vet thought he had a brain tumour.
Now this has really put me off designer dogs(at the time i didnt even think about him being designer)
Would this of happened in a "normal" dog, even what we called mongels as kids?????
 
What a shame. To be honest I doubt his cross had much to do with his illness, more likely either the parents had something wrong and I suspect they were'nt health tested and therefore passed it on. Or could just have been a one off that unfortunately he suffered from. I'm afraid you'll never know but in the future either buy from a good breeder who come recommended and uses healthy checked dogs or go to your local rescue and rehome a dog that has been behaviour and health checked by a professional. I currently have 6 rescue dogs, all of which are extreamly healthy and fit the oldest being 17 and still going strong.

So sorry for you little boy though. xxx
 
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