echodomino
Well-Known Member
I've not read the whole thread but get the jist that this is turning into a typical HHO shoot down, unfortunate really as AAD used to pretty much avoid that even when people voiced opinions. Whilst it's not the way I'd do it, if the puppies are healthy, happy and growing surely that's the important thing??
My JR Millie is now 12 years old, she's a fab dog and I had her from someone who didn't even put in what Patterdale has! She was in a barn in the pitch black, in a rabbit hutch that hadn't been cleaned out, with little to no contact and reared on dinner scraps and bits of bone! Yet they let her out for us to see and she was the most delightful little thing. She was the last of the litter and luckily there was nothing wrong with her. Rightly or wrongly I took her and I have no regrets.
And regarding the tail incident it can happen, Mouse had to have a c-sec after 3 pups of her first litter were born due to the fourth being breach and stuck. Before the vet decided to operate she tried to aid pup out and whilst trying the tip of his tail came off. Unfortunately by the time she got in to get him out we'd lost him, turns out he was actually side ways. But goes to show something like that can happen to a professional, doesn't mean that the owner was doing a bad job whelping the litter!!
My JR Millie is now 12 years old, she's a fab dog and I had her from someone who didn't even put in what Patterdale has! She was in a barn in the pitch black, in a rabbit hutch that hadn't been cleaned out, with little to no contact and reared on dinner scraps and bits of bone! Yet they let her out for us to see and she was the most delightful little thing. She was the last of the litter and luckily there was nothing wrong with her. Rightly or wrongly I took her and I have no regrets.
And regarding the tail incident it can happen, Mouse had to have a c-sec after 3 pups of her first litter were born due to the fourth being breach and stuck. Before the vet decided to operate she tried to aid pup out and whilst trying the tip of his tail came off. Unfortunately by the time she got in to get him out we'd lost him, turns out he was actually side ways. But goes to show something like that can happen to a professional, doesn't mean that the owner was doing a bad job whelping the litter!!