just to add another reason to the list....if you got him from someone who is not reputable and possibly a broker, then there is no way of knowing what he could be carrying recessively in his genetic makeup. Even if he is perfectly healthy, he can still throw pups with liver shunt, legg-calve perthes, luxating patella, collapsing trachea...etc..and you would have no way to know this until the problem arose. These things are heartbreaking and I would not want that on my conscience.
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