The tapes are not videos, they are recordings of the webinar remote class. As far as if every puppy should live, Dr.Greer's phylosophy is every baby deserves the chance to live. If the puppy has obvious deformaties, that are not going to allow that puppy to live, then she certainly does not believe in prolonging the inevietable....end the puppys suffering with euthanasia. But as a breeder, you have a moral and ethical responsibility to do what you can to save the puppy. The breeder you bought that sick puppy from, that wanted an autopsy to prove what was responsible for the death of the puppy, is not unreasonable. That is why you always need to do autopsies on dead puppies so you KNOW why that baby died...was it genetics? was it infection? was it malformation? I had a litter of 6 puppies come down with parvo, brought into my house on their clothes/shoes by people, out "looking at puppies".......Saving that litter, and all the associated expenses of shutting down breeding for almost 2 years, having my entire home and property treated with antivirals....cost me well over $35,000.00....over $25,000.00 of that was in vet bills alone. We saved the puppies, except one. How much you are willing to spend to save a puppy is a moral and ethical decision only YOU can answer. There are breeders that will toss a baby that is not progressing right on target, because they are working on a limited budget and do not have the money, time or desire to spend trying to save sick puppies. If I loose a baby, that baby could NOT have survived under any circumstances. I have the medical knowledge and the equipment necessary to do everything that can be done to keep that puppy alive. My efforts would stop if it becomes evident there are malformations or deformaties that can not be surmounted. But just because a puppy is tiny, or weaker than the rest of the litter, or not strong enough to nurse....all those issues are fixable with making sure the baby is fed.....and I step in immediately and feed that baby. As a breeder, that is the very loeast you can do for that puppy.....feed the baby, and if it can not absorm nutrients, then perhaps you can not do anything else for that baby, but you must at least feed a struggling baby....if that is all that is wrong with the puppy, it is savable and you need to be doing that. You must know how to tube feed a puppy, and you must do it. That is such a simple thing to do and you can save weak babies with effort and time and attention....puppies do not swallow the tube, you learn how to gently insert the tube and you feed the baby.....YOU control the situation, not the 1 oz puppy! I personally would NOT be doing this if I was not able to provide medical care to sick puppies. I do not make money doing this....I MAY break even, because I bank every cent made off a puppy, to cover the possible cost of sick puppies and my business supplies/expenses. This is NOTHING but a labor of love and the desire to produce healthy, beautiful, correct to breed standard, babies. You MUST have healthy, correct breeding stock....the very best you can get your hands on. That ensures your babies have at least a 50/50 chance of being healthy, genetically. But you have to know pedigrees so you know whuich ones have predispositions to certain issues. THIS is just a start.... |