I have no opinion as to whether you shoud"stud him out" or not, but I do have an experience to tell you about. When Sue bought Parker, she bought him to use for stud purposes. She took him to the vet and discovered he had an "upper respiratory infection", very bad teeth, and the vet gave her some medication and said if he lasted 3 days she would be lucky. He was also very thin. The vet weighed him and he weighed just over 3 lbs. Well, she doctored him, brought him to my house that weekend (to get him away from her others so they would not be subjected to the infection) and I continued to doctor him. This was a real fight! He didn't want to take the medicine and would clamp his jaws shut so hard you could hardly get them open. And as small and weak as he was, he still had strong jaws!! Oh, and he was also very insecure and didn't want to have anything to do with ANYBODY! Sue was the only one he was half-way friendly with, but all animals have a good rapport with her. (I think she speaks animal. With ESP.) After a week or so of good food, good medicine, and a little TLC, he started coming around. He started sleeping on my bed (on the pillows, on the other side of the bed.) I had the vet clean and check his teeth (several had to be pulled) and he soon decided he was in a good place. He has gained weight...as a matter of fact he may be a little overweight now, he is almost 6#. He no longer has any sign of his respiratory infection and he is very friendly with a lot of people. Not all, yet. He never will be compleltely sure of any strangers, I don't think. He is very suspicious. But he gets along with all the dogs, even Chester, our neutered male, who thinks that next to Ginger he is the boss.
Sorry this is so long, but I thought you might like to know they will turn around given the proper care and love. |