Wednesday 7 January 2009

for the love of chester

as i have just become a victim myself
my lovely golden retriever 8 month old puppy has been diagnosed with severe hip displacia and will need a hip replacement at 1 year of age
my vet informed me about the hip scoreing the stud dog that was used for the litter had a hip score of 23 the bva state the average to be 19 but recommend only breeding from a dog with well below the national average, this dog should never had been used for stud, what annoys me is that the breeder was a golden retriever judge at the crufts dog show, so as you can imagine i am very shocked and upset, as i thought such a well known breeder and judge would have done there upmost to insure they would turn out healthy puppys.
whats worse is that on contacting this person she started to get quite irate with me when i told her that the dogs hip score was too high and quoted the 19 and breeding should only be done with dogs well below the national average,
she put the phone down on me
as you can imagine im now faced with the heartache of having a poorly puppy whos got to go though therepy and hip replacement operation not to mention the expence
these people should be stopped