Breeder blames dog food...

[Yorkiemom1]

At first, after re-reading the article, he said the puppiues died after he switched to a less expensive brand of RC....which led me to believe he may have taken his mommas off the special HT 42d diet for pregnant and lactating bitches....but then, before they ever came out with this special diet for the pregnant females we all fed the puppy formula to the mommas and never had this issue.....so there is something else going on here....mommas milk has become toxic, I think...like if they develop mastitis and get very infected, the milk is no good and you have to pull puppies off and hand feed....if they drink that milk it will kill them........it is going to be very interesting to see where this ends up......

[barkleylove]

58 puppies??? Sounds like a puppy mill to me. What a way for this greeder to make money...sue a well known company like Royal Canin. Maggie and Bogey have been eating RC from the very beginning so I'm hoping this is bogus. I know I can count on YT members to keep us informed about this

[Lovetodream88]

It couldn't be that hes a bad breeder and not doing something right........

[Princes mom]

Originally Posted by barkleylove

58 puppies??? Sounds like a puppy mill to me. What a way for this greeder to make money...sue a well known company like Royal Canin. Maggie and Bogey have been eating RC from the very beginning so I'm hoping this is bogus. I know I can count on YT members to keep us informed about this

I will def post any updates. I saw this report this morning, and it also aired this afternoon, but it was the same info. Wow, so sad...waiting for the facts.

[Nancy1999]

Fifty-eight puppies died in a six-week period? It says:

A necropsy shows the puppies died from bacterial septicemia, an infection blamed on a lack of colostrum.

Colostrum is the first milk a mother puts out and filled with antibodies. This doesn’t mean that the puppies got a bacterial infection from the RC, only that the mother did not make enough colostrum. There are many reasons for lack of colostrum, one could be lack of nutrition, but not just for now but for the whole pregnancy and who knows what he really fed, it could also indicate he’s over breeding the dogs and they just are worn out. I really doubt this story, RC works with breeders and does many nutritional tests on the dogs.

[Yorkiemom1]

They are accusing the RC for being "nutritionally lacking" which caused the mommas to produce milk that was nutritionally incomplete, and unable to provide the requirements needed for the babies to survive because no antibodies were passed to the babies from the colostrum in the milk...mommas did not produce colostrum, they contend, because of the RC. I am still waiting for RC to call me back...he is checking with news outlet that had the story, as well as their (RC's) own vets, etc....soon as I get anything back from him, I will pass it on. I do not think the statement that bacterial septicemia is related to no colostrum, is an accurate statement. I almost lost a litter from that because I started weaning onto raw, and those babies had plenty colostrum when they were born.

[yorkietalkjilly]

I don't know enough to even comment about what happened but hard to believe this gr...breeder who seems to imply that this is all RC's fault and not his for changing food or who knows what. One of the two times I bred dogs years ago, my beautiful best friend Doberman bitch died from her "milk going bad" or similar terms used by the vet and mentor. But we were using only the food and vitamins etc that our mentor/breeder and the vet prescribed. They all said "this just happens sometimes"(?). Never again for us....no more breeding dogs. Poor, poor "designer" dogs.

[rubynrosie]

Just my not worth too much two cents opinion...if you really suspected a product of killing THOUSANDS of dollars of puppies, wouldn't you (or your attorney) immediately call the company??? I guess I find it kind of hoakie that you would find many deaths in just one area vs a lot of deaths over many breeders if its a product at fault. Please keep us informed...this will be interesting

[brezofleur]

"Fifty-eight puppies died in a six-week period."

That's all I need to read right there.

[ladyjane]

Originally Posted by brezofleur

"Fifty-eight puppies died in a six-week period."

That's all I need to read right there.

And so called "designer puppies" to boot.

[chestermama]

something smells fishy in denmark

[Princes mom]

Haven't heard any updates, yet.

[Yorkiemom1]

I updated after my conversation with RC...it is under Carmen's original thread about this topic....

[ladyjane]

Actually this is the original thread. But for those who don't know where the other one is:

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/bre...py-deaths.html

Not that I think discussing either of these breeder's complaints is newsworthy. I don't buy what they are saying about RC foods.

[chachi]

Originally Posted by ladyjane

Actually this is the original thread. But for those who don't know where the other one is:

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/bre...py-deaths.html

Not that I think discussing either of these breeder's complaints is newsworthy. I don't buy what they are saying about RC foods.

Me either there are too many other things that could have happened causing them to lose those pups