Interesting. I’ve (or my mom & I) have lost 3 dogs to
cancer and they were all pound pups or street rescues. The few purebred AKC
dogs we’ve had have lived very long lives.
Rae
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Sites Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:10 PM To: ridecamp Subject: [RC] Breeders VS Rescues
The
only AKC dog i ever bought was from a breeder. Abbie was an Afghan Hound
who died at 3 yo to cancer. Abbie was inadvertantly bred by an AKC Golden
Retreiver when she was bred as a year old. We kept one of the
litter, Tippy 2 who died at 9 yo due to cancer. I'm not saying it was
because of a line bred breed, but thru all my experiences w/ dogs i have never
had a history of any cancer from my pound puppies, mutts or cross breeds.
Thats just my experience and i'll go to the pound if i ever want another dog
rather than an AKC breed. But as Frank once said about me and
Jose...."we were 2 mutts".
Some
of the best of all time Endurance horses to me were Rio and Cash and they
never fit the mold of breeding or body types. Bezatal did, but there are
so many others i think the really good ones are flukes and luck and only maybe
sometimes thru selective breeding, and finding the right owner to get the most
out of them. To me thats as important as breeding, resting heart rate,
cannon bone or any of the other variables one thinks important. And thats
not to say some lines do better than others, and one should not go to breeders,
but i have seen so many good horses come from the sales lot or classifieds do
good i would look at the horse and nothing more. ts
