[AngEngland]

I'm pissed - this is a horrible situation I never thought I'd have to deal with since I'm not a large kennel or anything, just a pet owner who chose to invest in quality animals with the intent of breeding in the future.

Well - Jasmine, my AKC Yorkie came into season and we secured a stud for the week to come and stay with us since I wasn't about to board her anywhere - it would be too stressful for her....she's my little lap baby. :-)

Anyway - tonight I let them both out on the porch (fenced in with lattace) to get some exercise.

Understand - we live in yucky neighborhood - you know the kind...kids and dogs running wild? The first thing we did when we moved in was put up fences and we've been working to keep the neighbor dogs out ever since.

Well - you guessed it - one of the neigbors little mongral pieces of s**t came into our yard and bred Jasmine. I'm horrified. I'm pissed at the contaminated breeding but I'm even more scared that she'll get brucellosis from this mutt.

We've already pulled the stud away from her and isolated her to make sure she doesn't potentially pass it on if she did get it but now I'm really worried.

I wanted to know what, if any, legal recourse I have against the owners of this other dog. He is their responsibility - obviously - they should restrain their stud or MUCH better yet, neuter the beast since he's just a hind's-57 if you know what I mean.

What I WANT is for them to be forced to get the dog tested for brucellosis and if it is negative, to pay for DNA on all the puppies to make sure which are pure-bred from our stud.

If the test is POSITIVE I want them to reimburse me the vet fees to have all of my animals tested, including our friends stud, and if the worst happens to pay to replace our bitch (we also have a champion bulldog stud that is my husband's dog that we couldn't risk getting infected! THis is a REALLY horrible situation!!). We only have the two breeding dogs - my husband's bulldog and my yorkie. Our other female is a spayed rescue dog. And of course - the yorkie stud was a loaner. But we can't let him go back to our friends kennel until he is cleared.

It takes a month for brucellosis to show up on a blood test. I'm so scared and pissed and angry and it's created such a hassle just in terms of housing this other stud dog in a more long term situation since we'll have the expense of keeping him for a month until we are sure HE isn't infected either. We seperated them as soon as we saw what was happening but still......

I'm SO angry and now I'm wondering what, if any, legal recourse we have.

THEIR dog came on OUR property. My bitch NEVER left our property. Is this something we can ask them to pay for?

Angela <><