Is this for real?!

It is certainly something I have never heard of, but then again don't think GSDs nowadays have faults that would lead to culling at birth, non standard colours seem to be a plus rather than the embarrassment they used to be. I do believe there were breeders who used to drown white GSD pups at birth but never heard of anyone being named.
The idea of freezing a newborn puppy sounds awful, they are generally pretty lively so would imagine it would be a horrible slow death. However bear in mind that Beverley Cuddy absolutely hates anyone and everyone to do with dog showing and seems to have made a full time career in trying to spread often unfounded rumours about them.
 
Slightly different, but apparently the RSPCA reckon that freezing is the humane way to kill lobsters as opposed to dropping in boiling water, presumably because they shut down with the cold then die.

Not sure how I feel about the lobster but it's bloody barbaric with a puppy
 
Dog`s Today is on a par with the Sunday Sport for printing rubbish, anti dog breeder/showing rubbish is their speciality. OF COURSE breeders use a vet to put down defective ppuppies,with a very heavy heart I might add.
Perfectly healthy babies born with a defect like a cleft palette or hare lip are a tragedy all round,they cannot survive normally and are better PTS.I cannot think of anybody hard hearted enough to do this alleged method.
Absolute sensationalistic rubbish designed entirely to sell the magazine.
 
I dont believe the poster, its an anonyemous post and I suspect its a troll, if any breeder did it do you honestly think they would tell anyone else and the poster does say several breeders.
 
Beverly Cuddy posted it herself as far as I can see?
We have a fierce critic on FB who says that 'someone' told him this, and 'someone' told him that. 'Someone' is actually a figment of his imagination.....
 
I reread it and it said name and address withheld and underneath posted by Beverley Cuddy:rolleyes:.

If it was true it would be unforgiveable and a blot on the whole breeding industry,but if we were talking about puppy farms anything is possible they are not noted for their welfare standards.
 
Ah right! That will teach me for skim reading :p

Friends of ours, were accused by rival breeders (who liked to dunk their whites, blues and livers in a bucket...allegedly...) of leaving whole horse dead carcasses for their dogs to feed on, and that their dogs were starved until the next dead horse arrived, and they broadcast this at all the shows.
It was not true, but it was hugely damaging. I'd keep my eyes wide open as regards these allegations.
 
Funny you should mention that CC.... We collected a blue merle border collie from a breeder in the Forest of Dean.Asking for a diet sheet ,I was told that each day started with a bowl of Readybrek,fine,"and then"? " Well",she said ,leading me out to the exercise yard",after that it is up to them".
In the yard was a large bullock carcase,mostly eaten,and from inside it a happy collie emerged licking it`s lips. They explained that there were lots of road kills in the Forest,so their dogs lived "off the land/road" so to speak.
God`s Honour ..that is exactly as it happened. The REAL BARF diet!
 
Cant imagine much freezing goes on tbh, sounds rather sensational! As for the RSPCA and freezing, well, my partners boss (pet shop manager) was given a 10 year ban on keeping animals for freezing a dying lizard, so I would imagine they disapprove where puppies are involved.
 
echodomino said:
Slightly different, but apparently the RSPCA reckon that freezing is the humane way to kill lobsters as opposed to dropping in boiling water, presumably because they shut down with the cold then die.

Not sure how I feel about the lobster but it's bloody barbaric with a puppy
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The advice to euthanise a fish is similar: have a 'killing bowl' with their pond water in, put it in the freezer. I admit I've done this when I had an outbreak of a pathogen. :o

Dad used to breed bunnies for food and they had their necks broken before going to the pot.

A quick death is preferable, obviously, although for pups, I'd want an injection in a decent environment if they weren't going to survive.
 
I was told by our aquatics none the less, that when they have to destroy fish they put them in a bag and bash them against the wall or bop them with something heavy :/
 
never heard of the freezer method,but a breeder where I work is not beyond a bucket of water for ill/defective pups.

I always killed my tropical fish in Vodka
 
Spudlet said:
Blimmin' eck, I'm sure not all (I hope the vast, vast majority) of 'serious showing breeders' would not do this, but it seems pretty brutal to me!

http://dogstodaythinktank.blogspot.com/2011/10/is-freezing-to-death-cruel.html

Thoughts?
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I don't think it's the "norm" across show breeders, but who's to say that it never happens? Perhaps it does...but I know of a few show breeders. The ones that I know would never use this tactic! One in particular has, for example, had a pup born with no toes. The feet were strangely deformed to just little stumps at the end of legs. The pup is still living and healthy and as far as I know, having the life of Riley. I know that this particular breeder would put herself out of house and home to pay vet bills above and beyond the normal care for any of her dogs/horses etc.

I think the blog is purely intended to be inflammatory crap.
 
echodomino said:
I was told by our aquatics none the less, that when they have to destroy fish they put them in a bag and bash them against the wall or bop them with something heavy :/
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Like when my brother used to go fishing: just smack the fish hard on a rock to kill it.

I admit I got the OH to cut the head off a dying gudgeon with a pair of secateurs once :o: I couldn't bear to see it in distress.

lexiedhb said:
never heard of the freezer method,but a breeder where I work is not beyond a bucket of water for ill/defective pups.

I always killed my tropical fish in Vodka
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Explain? I've never heard of that method (and what a waste of vodka!)
 
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