And, no, the father should NOT have been bred if he has medical problems. He should have been neutered. I'm not trying to be mean, but, this is why so many innocent little pups have so many problems. Because breeders are NOT doing their homework, and they're not having their dogs tested. A lot of breeders see $ in their eyes, and are breeding without any concerns as to what's going to happen to these poor pups. Just like our golden retrriever, she's almost 4, and for the last year, she has had the worse case of hip dysplasia the vet has ever seen in such a young dog. My son bought her from a breeder, who of course, could only see $ signs, and now that this dog is our dog, she has cost us a lot of money, right under $2000, and that was just by putting her on meds and taking her in for shots, etc. Who is sufferering? The dog and us, and it's all because of a greedy breeder that put 2 dogs together that both had to have had hip dysplasia to have caused this to be so bad! |