There is an issue that I have a lot of opinions on. I can really get myself worked up about it too.
To explain, I’ve mentioned before about my lurcher’s skin haven’t I? It’s like paper. One snag and it tears like a tissue exposing everything underneath and she collapses to the ground and cries for a minute or so before jumping up and bounding off again. The first tear was caused by Wes grabbing for her. Don’t think Wes is horrible because he isn’t. Dogs grab each others coats in play fighting and serious fighting and chew each others legs and pull each others tails but whereas most dogs have thick fur or tough skin, little Sadie doesn’t. It tears.
Fortunately, precisely because it is so thin, it also mends very quickly, it dries up and scabs within hours and then quickly heals leaving a bald patch for a few weeks until the hair grows back again.
A couple of days ago she ran into the closing car door and another tear appeared on her shoulder.
This one really hurt her and although she could run upstairs no problem she couldn’t put any weight on her leg so I had to carry downstairs each time. I ummed and aahed about taking her to the vet but really couldn’t see what could be done, there is just no thickness to her skin, how can it be stitched? How can you ensure that a mad lurcher doesn’t charge about and pull the stitches and tear it all open again? Why put her through the trauma of injections, anaesthetic, shaving, prodding etc when I can clean the wound myself and let Mother Nature do what it does best?
I took them out for a walk today and she did her usual barmy lurcher thing which is hurtle around at top speed leaping over walls and charging through the bushes with a great big dopey grin on her face. As she was showing off she misjudged jumping up a wall and caught her trailing back paw on the edge of the wall coping. She limped for a bit and then was soon bouncing around with a couple of dogs we bumped into on the walk. Just as well she didn’t have stitches because they’d be out! As they were playing I caught sight of some red and yep she’s split the skin just above her paw, oh and there is a hole on her thigh now too, no idea how that one came about!
So what do I do? Take her to the vet’s every week to be pumped full of antibiotics, half shaved and covered in some sort of cross stitch? Or keep her on the lead where she has no real doggy fun of mooching around and playing with other dogs? In fact that wouldn’t solve it because she gets splits and tears in the house!
So, to get to my initial point. What the hell are breeders doing to our dogs? Sadie has been bred to hunt: somewhere in the plan to breed a sleeker, more agile, more tenancious hunter they overlooked the fact that these dogs can literally have their skin ripped off by the slightest tug. What’s the point of having a fast dog if you can’t let it run anywhere in case it gets snagged?
Which brings me onto pedigree dogs. Why would anyone of a sound mind pays hundreds of £££s for an overbred, inbred fuck up that’s being passed off as a dog? Sadie is a cross anyway being a lurcher but still the breeders have managed to compromise her health.
Look at these poor things
Unsound breeding practices can predispose dogs to hereditary afflictions like hip dysplasia, dislocating kneecaps, eye problems, and aggression, as well as genetic conditions such as liver and heart diseases, autoimmune disorders, and seizures.
I went to the vet once and there was a Bulldog, the poor thing couldn’t breathe properly, it sounded like an old person with emphesma, it was so deformed it could barely walk in a straight line and the stupid owners would’ve paid approx £600 for that. A friend of mine got a boxer £500 and then spent further £100s because it was allergic to corn, wheat, grass and a number of other everyday hard to avoid things. Why pay hundreds of £££s for a dog that is GUARANTEED to need continual veterinary attention and will die after a handful of years because it’s so genetically weak?
You’re not paying for the dog, you’re paying the breeders, who couldn’t give a flying whatsit for the dogs, so they can breed MORE of the same faulty flawed creatures.
I am a die hard lover of crossbreeds, they get the best of the genes from each breed. Natural selection has a lot of good going for it. Darling Wes has never needed to go to the vets apart from his injections.
So you can imagine how pissed off I am about having a dog with tissue for skin - and I got her from the RSPCA!!
I had a Yorkshire Terrier years ago, I look at how my Yorkie looked (Rich golden brown with black contrast and ears that stood up like a cats) and compare them to the faded floppy eared mess they have bred now. My dog was HANDSOME, these guys aren’t Yorkies!!
They will breed animals to death, but hey, they’ll die with stupidly short legs, big noses and the right amount of spots that the idiot breeders wanted.
The RSPCA are BAAAAD people. Trust me. Protection of animals my ass!!
I’m no fan of the RSPCA either. The home checker wanted me to treat Sadie as if she was a small child….er no…she’s a DOG and should be treated as a DOG. ‘She needs a bed, she needs a special collar, she shouldn’t be left alone overnight’…..she’s a DOG.
They are also incredibly over protective of ‘their’ animals. In the Spring I’d take both dogs to uni with me in the car for a couple of hours, in the back with the back seat down where they’d sleep. Some morons (students with nothing better to do) called the RSPCA because clearly the dogs were going to die a horrible death merely because they were in the car.
The RSPCA continued to harrass me for weeks threatening to take the pup back because they were ‘concerned with her welfare’. Why? ‘Because dogs die in hot cars, we’ll get the police to smash your windows, get our vet to remove the dogs and examine them for signs of distress’ they said.
‘It’s April’ I said, ‘my car doesn’t get hot in April, the dogs are asleep not distressed. When I get back they bounce out of the car, have a tinkle in the carpark, shove a wet nose into my hands and bounce back into the car, that’s not ‘distressed’. Start smashing windows, dragging them from their safe environment and shoving thermometers up their arse and I can guarantee that they WILL be distressed!’.
‘Ah, but it will be hot in the Summer’ they said.
Wesley is 11, he’s managed to survive 10 summers with me shoved into a hot oven of a car for hours on end with no thought AT ALL to his welfare has he not? (Okay being sarcastic here but you should’ve heard the bullying cow).
Jumped up power crazy ‘animal lovers’ who by the power of their undeserved title of Inspector think that they care and know more about animals that anybody else. Why do they wear official looking uniforms? Why do they call themselves Inspectors? They have NO jurisdiction, NO powers of arrest, NO powers of seizure, NO veterinary qualifications and are NOT allowed to take your animal or enter your property without your PERMISSION.
Would you let a charity worker force her way into your house to confiscate clothing for the jumble sale? Course you wouldn’t so why does everyone think the RSPCA have any authority?
Did you know that the RSPCA use LIVE dogs as target practise (with bullets, not tranquilisers) to train their staff how to shoot dogs ‘just in case’?
I’ve put a link to a site who are exposing the RSPCA for what they truly are. Please read it, it will shock you!!
My cat sancturay are always full because the RSPCA drivers in that area take the cats to her independany sanctuary. The owners are told when they have their cats picked up that they are signing to have their animal put down and that this particular RSPCA will not house them, they go straight in and are put to sleep without being given a chance. My sanctuary do it as an ABSOLUTE LAST RESORT, and I’m on about fund raising thousands for cats with liver failure etc….
The RSPCA driver can’t stand to take the cats to their death so they overload the sanctuary instead, it’s sweet of the drivers although the woman I foster for works from her house and garage. She’s a superstar. The RSPCA are evil. They need to say that they are no longer taking on domestic animals, which is what they claim their problem is. And they need to STOP taking healthy animals away from homes knowing they are going to put them to sleep. Ooooo, they make me angry. Twats!!
Grrrr!
The RSPCA’s primary role is not Animal Welfare, they are a street cleaning service. They simply provide cities with concentration camps for unwanted animals.