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Originally Posted by kpstoybox  Very interesting!! I was never one to believe the stories that breeders in the distant past could be so brutal as to drop an otherwise healthy puppy into a bucket of water shortly after birth...just because it was an "off" color.
Which led me to think. In today's world...would a vet actually euthanize a completely healthy puppy...just because a breeder (who wanted to keep an off color pup a secret) instructed him to do so?  |
I have posted about this practice before and was :flamed:
for doing so. No one wanted to believe it. But it was another time, and for show breeders, this was their life, their entire reputation was at stake.
I doubt that anyone practices this today, and certainly no vet would do it.