If your talking about breeding your chi for the love of the breed, I just looked at the kill shelter in my area and counted about 30 + chihuahuas in that shelter now. sorry but to breed just to breed is not a reason. I would think it over more, or go to your local shelter and see how many chihuahuas & other dogs are in the shelters.
shanna "My Chihuahua Ricky, Is A Heartbeat At My Feet." Kavi's Christening N Communion Store Children's Christening, Communion, Formal Wear + More http://stores.ebay.com/Kavis-Christening-n-Communion-Store --- On Mon, 11/29/10, Brea Hicks <[email protected]> wrote: From: Brea Hicks <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Re: Together we can make a difference.... if we believe! [1 Attachment] To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, November 29, 2010, 4:35 PM [Attachment(s) from Brea Hicks included below] I would like to breed, I would do it for the love of the breed not for money... But I would want to keep all the puppies cause I wouldn't trust people enough to take my puppies! Or I would have to do background checks and homecheck before giving my puppies up! And maybe a blood sample too! Just kidding! -- Sent from my Palm Pre<3 Brea, Sweetie and Stetson <3 On Nov 29, 2010 4:11 PM, Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> wrote: Good for you! I think that's a great idea. It must be wonderful to keep in touch with them through the years too. -------Original Message------- From: OKreationZ Date: 11/29/2010 11:19:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Re: Together we can make a difference.... if we believe! Heck I even take responsibility for life for the rescues I place. One of the agreements the forever home parents make is that for ANY reason they can no longer take care of the pups, they bring them back to me. And I keep contact with those people.. Too.. I learned that from the rescue that I got Tia from .. It was an all breed dog rescue and she has tons. Keeps all the little ones in the house with her.. She had 15 in the house when I got Tia.. Lol.. But she still emails every 6 MO and asks for a picture of Tia.. Huggles Pat in OK -------Original Message------- From: Deanna Corey Date: 11/29/2010 10:09:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Re: Together we can make a difference.... if we believe! HI Brea...how about if instead we come up with "taking care of our dogs to prevent unwanted pregnancies AND Id'ing them". I won't spay everyone I one but i WILL take full responsibility for NO pregnancies...unless of course I breed for a specific reason which then of course I WILL take full responsibility for each and every pup for life! I still have poodles out there in the world from when I was a Poodle breeder...I am responsible for each and every one, know exactly where they are and keep in contact with ALL owners...it was in my contract...Also in my contract that if ever the poodle could not be a part of their family anymore they are to come back here. Guys...we do need good breeders in the world...breeds need to be preserved and promoted intelligently and with responsibility. Let's vow to be educated and RESPONSIBLE dog owners and help the shelters and the forsaken when we can!! Waggin' Tails in The Dog Park, Deanna and The Dog Park Pack: Nugget, Shuai-Li, Mouse, Myrtle, Mable, Madison and Caleb and honorary non-dog members of The Dog Park: Stella-Macaw, Stanley-Amazon, Miles the cat www.joys4toys.com From: Brea Hicks <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 7:16:32 AM Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Re: Together we can make a difference.... if we believe! I like ur Idea! We could all start by getting our dogs fixed and tagged etc. We should come up with a fund raiser! Maybe we can do somekind of fund raiser when we take over a hotel with our dogs! -- Sent from my Palm Pre<3 Brea, Sweetie and Stetson <3 On Nov 29, 2010 12:12 AM, Nancy Lucky <[email protected]> wrote: Very well said - that is why I would never ever breed my baby - for one thing I could never give them up as they would be my grand dogs. I swore that my next dog would be a rescue and I went back on that promise. For one reason is my breeder borderlines on being a hoarder she has 26 dogs and is now getting rid of a lot of the older females. My daughter found her several days after my Sami died and I was so depressed that of course I took her. But the Breeder really wanted me to take the boy because I know she wanted to breed Abbey. Then when she called me about Maggie I just thought of all those dogs and the room they have set up for them. How much personal love and care can you get when you have that many animals? They do not even have a grass area for the dogs to play on. Then when I went to pick up Maggie and Linda (the breeder) did not even want to hold Abbey or pet her I felt that I was saving Maggie from a life of being a baby factory and then when she is no longer valuable they would sell her off. I had a real reality check the second time around as I thought that I had bought from a great breeder - but my eyes were not clouded with tears this time and I paid attention to every detail. She tried to sell my daughter one of her females that she said was 3 years old but I know that she was over 6 for 500.00 and told us that she was a 2,000 dog. Then to top it off she told me that Maggie would be terrorized and scared probably for days as she would miss them so much. Maggie walked into my home and was happy from day one. She snuggled in my bed and kissed me all night long and I do believe that she knew Abbey was her sister. She knew that she was so loved and she was so happy to be home. But I am not buying anymore of Linda's stories as she told me she had to size down because of her health and her daughters health and guess what - when we went there she had three pregnant dogs. Maggie is a happy and healthy and very loved puppy. I doubt if she ever misses where she comes from. But this is it for me, if I ever do get another animal it will definitely be from a shelter. I do donate clothes, treats and blankets to the shelter and a few times in my life a stray has come in my life and I found them wonderful homes with my daughter and family. When ever I hear of a Chi running around town, I get in the car and go looking for it. But I do have some quilt as I did not keep my promise - but sometimes for other reasons things just do not always turn out the way we had hoped. I could not even imagine having to put down a healthy pet and I think it would haunt me forever - but maybe that is what the world needs to see! Quit sugar coating every thing - let the world see the truth and then and only then we might see a change. Do you know that during the Holocaust people did not believe it and thought it was all propaganda. My mother in law had saved all the news papers during that time and you would not believe the garbage and lies that were in them. I am sending this to every animal love I know. I think as a group we need to come up with an idea next year on how we might change something to make it better for our dear beloved friends. We have so many smart women in this group with such a passion that we could put our heads together and see if we can even make one small change to make it a better world for our precious animal friends. I think that should be our focus next year as a group. What do you all think? Start thinking of ideas and after the holidays lets start writing them down and brainstorming. I could not imagine how wonderful we would all feel. Blessings and love to all, Nancy, Abbey-Rose and Maggie-Mae We could even do something as simple as a fund raiser for the lady who does the show Highway to Heaven (might of got that name wrong) or the lady who saves the Pitbulls ~ then who knows maybe we can work on getting some bills passed, my girlfriend did it on behalf of disabled people so she could guide us. Sweet Dreams.... my wonderful friends --- On Sun, 11/28/10, Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> wrote: From: Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Get A Tissue / Need To Get Rid Of Your Pet? SAD :( To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 9:59 PM Worst then what she wrote are the video's on U-Tube. Extremely graphic,especially the gas chambers, showing the real cold truth. People don't want to hear the whole cold truth. Those video's have been their for years and it still doesn't stop the average pet owner from wanting to breed their cute little pet. Who is to guarantee that a year or even a few years down the road, that your pet's puppies are won't be on death row? They don't all come from Puppy Mills! I just looked at DogsInDanger.com for Chi's in CA shelters, and as usual I am sick! I gave up counting after 50! That site gives the Euth date on each dogs picture, and believe me they do it! TO CHI OWNERS WHO WANT TO BREED THEIR CUTE LITTLE BABIES.....GO HAVE A LOOK AT ALL OF THOSE FACES AND TELL ME THAT YOU CAN GUARANTEE, THAT FOR THE NEXT 16-18 YEARS OF YOUR BRED PUPPIES, THAT THEY WON'T EVER END UP ON A EUTH LIST ONCE YOU SELL THEM! I don't get it, Doesn't looking at Petfinders alone, tell people not to breed? Doesn't the fact that their are 13,596 Chi's on that list that need homes make a person wonder where they all came from? Doesn't 13,596 Chi's make you want to adopt rather then buy from anyone? Each time a person buys a dog, whether it is from a pet shop or a private breeder, you have just taken away the chance for one of those 13,596 chi's from ever having a home and most of them will be put down because of it. Again, I will remind everyone, NOT ALL THE DOGS ON PETFINDERS ARE WITH RESCUES, THE MAJORITY OF THAT NUMBER ARE IN KILL SHELTERS! Let the private breeder be responsible for the next 18 years for the litters that they create. You bring them into the world, then you should be responsible for them for their whole life! Just the way the PM's should be responsible for every single dog that they create. Considering the Euth rate keeps getting worse and worse, I fail to see what the difference is between anyone who breeds dogs, while we are killing them by the thousands every single day.. Wake up America! The truth always hurts! ID/Micro-chip, ADOPT and Don't Breed, Don't Buy!! ♥ Peggy & The Girls ♥ -----Original Message----- From: Kavi <[email protected]> To: Chihuahuas <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 12:04 am Subject: [Chihuahuas] Get A Tissue / Need To Get Rid Of Your Pet? SAD :( Found this on Craigslist of Las Vegas Please get a tissue before reading, or if your really sensitive, please do not read. This is about Dogs that die in shelters when there time is up and how it is done. ********************************************************************************* Need to get rid or your Pet? I think our society needs a huge "Wake-up" call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all...a view from the inside if you will. First off, all of you breeders/sellers should be made to work in the "back" of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don't even know. That puppy you just sold will most likely end up in my shelter when it's not a cute little puppy anymore. So how would you feel if you knew that there's about a 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter it is going to be dumped at? Purebred or not! About 50% of all of the dogs that are "owner surrenders" or "strays", that come into my shelter are purebred dogs. The most common excuses I hear are; "We are moving and we can't take our dog (or cat)." Really? Where are you moving too that doesn't allow pets? Or they say "The dog got bigger than we thought it would". How big did you think a German Shepherd would get? "We don't have time for her". Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs! "She's tearing up our yard". How about making her a part of your family? They always tell me "We just don't want to have to stress about finding a place for her we know she'll get adopted, she's a good dog". Odds are your pet won't get adopted & how stressful do you think being in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off. Sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn't full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy. If it sniffles, it dies. Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it. If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him/her for a walk. If I don't, your pet won't get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose. If your dog is big, black or any of the "Bully" breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those dogs just don't get adopted. It doesn't matter how 'sweet' or 'well behaved' they are. If your dog doesn't get adopted within its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn't full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long . Most dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because shelters just don't have the funds to pay for even a $100 treatment. Here's a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being "put-down". First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to "The Room", every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there, it's strange, but it happens with every one of them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 vet techs depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process. They will find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the "pink stuff". Hopefully your pet doesn't panic from being restrained and jerk. I've seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood and been deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don't just "go to sleep", sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves. When it all ends, your pets corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed waiting to be picked up like garbage. What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? You'll never know and it probably won't even cross your mind. It was just an animal and you can always buy another one, right? I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your eyes out and can't get the pictures out of your head I deal with everyday on the way home from work. I hate my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be there unless you people make some changes and realize that the lives you are affecting go much farther than the pets you dump at a shelter. Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I do my best to save every life I can but rescues are always full, and there are more animals coming in everyday than there are homes. My point to all of this DON'T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE! Hate me if you want to. The truth hurts and reality is what it is. I just hope I maybe changed one persons mind about breeding their dog, taking their loving pet to a shelter, or buying a dog. I hope that someone will walk into my shelter and say "I saw this and it made me want to adopt". THAT WOULD MAKE IT WORTH IT For those of you that care--- please repost this to at least one other craiglist in another city/state. Let's see if we can get this all around the US and have an impact. ******************************************************************************* "My Chihuahua Ricky, Is A Heartbeat At My Feet." Kavi's Christening N Communion Store Children's Christening, Communion, Formal Wear + More http://stores.ebay.com/Kavis-Christening-n-Communion-Store
