tiny dancer wrote:

Our's are also. No matter how long a time they have been gone. the
contract signed says 'they must be returned to us if for any reason they
are no longer wanted at their adoptive homes.' They have all been
micro-chipped and neutered.

Yes!!!! That is definitely the way to do it. I am a BIG fan
of having puppies chipped before they leave their breeders,
and wish that both AKC and animal control authorities required
it *sigh*.

Here's an incident that happened to one of my rescue buddies.
She got a dog back after he ended up in a shelter becauses they
were able to trace his microchip back to her - and boy, was
she EVER pissed. I knew how carefully she screened her homes
(actually the way I'd met her was that I'd adopted from her)
and she used a contract requiring return of the dog if the
owners could not keep it for any reason.

So she hunted down the people who had adopted the dog from
her and wanted to know what had happened. It turned out that
they'd decided after a while that they didn't want to keep the
dog after all and gave him to some friends (in violation of
the contract, of course). The friends also got bored with
him fairly quickly and ended up just letting him run loose.
They didn't even bother checking the shelter when he failed
to return home.

So that microchip ended up saving that dog's bacon. No matter
how good potential homes seem, and how many promises they make,
you can never be 100% sure they'll follow through later on down
the road :-(.

Dianne

"Julia Altshuler" wrote in message
. ..
I'll admit to deleting without reading a lot of the "over protective dog"
thread. It got boring with people repeating themselves a while ago. So I
apologize if this subject has been brought up. Here's my question: What
now?


I think the cabal is pretty much in agreement that Peter shouldn't have
bred Gretchen, that if he was going to breed her he should have known a
lot more about breeding and Danes and should have gotten a number of tests
done. That's in the past.


Is there any concensus on what would be the best thing to do now?


Peter, how far along is she? When are the puppies due? How is she acting
during the pregnancy? How's her health?


Cabal, what's the collective wisdom on spaying a bitch during pregnancy?
Are there risks? Is there anything that might turn an earlier bad
decision into a present not-as-bad situation?


(I know it's useless to try to direct where a conversation goes ahead of
time, but I'm going to do it anyway. Could we PLEASE keep away from the
human abortion issue and keep to talking about dogs? Deep breath, a dog
is not a person; a puppy is not a baby.)


I think the best thing to do is find the best homes, and make sure that
their contract states that they go back to Peter should anything go wrong.
Peter should work with the puppy owners to ensure they get what they need to
become happy, healthy adults.