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I have a mayor dilemma and while I was performing a google search, I came across this forum. What better way to get an opinion than asking other doberman owners and breeders their opinions.
4 months ago I purchased a doberman puppy from a breeder in New York who claims to have been breeding dobermans for over 20 years. I would like to reserve the name until I make a sound decision as to expose her or not. This woman and I had relatively good communication. (I say relatively, and you'll understand why as you read.)
In my excitement to see the puppy that I didn't fully examine him. He was absolutely gorgeous! He had his ears taped up with duct tape and looked really funny, but was adorable nonetheless. After several conversations with this breeder, I began suspecting she was not the best choice of breeders. Some things were not right. I had asked her about the ear crop and without warning, she shot back, "I didn't do them, the vet did!" The thought of her performing the crop had not gone through my mind. In another conversation, she confessed that she used to crop the ears herself but can no longer do it due to her shaking hands, but if I ever wanted to breed, she would crop and dock all the puppies very cheap for me. She says she used to be a vet tech.
I took my puppy home and from the very beginning, noticed he had a very sloppy walk. It's one of those things that make you tilt your head in a confused manner. Within a week, I took him to my vet for his puppy shots. The vet too was perplexed by his walk. I was instructed to keep an eye on him.
Because the "wobbling" only got worse over the next few months, I was referred to a neurologist. My neurologist has informed me that he has a neurological disorder and possibly wobblers. When I called to warn her through uncontrollable crying she seemed genuinely surprised. She called her vet to talk to the neurologist. She then called me back and told me that the doctors had spoken and that the neurologist said they didn't know what my puppy has. Not true. I called my neurologist and she again confirmed that it was indeed genetic and that she did tell the breeder's vet.
I am very distraught. She doesn't want to take responsibility for her dogs carrying this disease. What she did offer was to take my puppy back and give me another puppy from a litter she is expecting. My puppy is 7 months and we are very attached. I can only wonder what she would do with him, she cannot breed him. I don't want another puppy, more than likely, we never will want another puppy, least of all from her. Will she continue to feed and take care of a dog that she has no use for? My response to her was that she should return the money that I paid for him and I would use it for his very expensive testing. Nothing else. We want to keep our puppy and do everything we can and keep him for all of his life whether it's long or short.
My question is if this is a fair request on my part? We are not rich and would need to borrow money from family members to continue testing.
I have not told my children yet and don't want to make any decisions under the condition that I am right now.
4 months ago I purchased a doberman puppy from a breeder in New York who claims to have been breeding dobermans for over 20 years. I would like to reserve the name until I make a sound decision as to expose her or not. This woman and I had relatively good communication. (I say relatively, and you'll understand why as you read.)
In my excitement to see the puppy that I didn't fully examine him. He was absolutely gorgeous! He had his ears taped up with duct tape and looked really funny, but was adorable nonetheless. After several conversations with this breeder, I began suspecting she was not the best choice of breeders. Some things were not right. I had asked her about the ear crop and without warning, she shot back, "I didn't do them, the vet did!" The thought of her performing the crop had not gone through my mind. In another conversation, she confessed that she used to crop the ears herself but can no longer do it due to her shaking hands, but if I ever wanted to breed, she would crop and dock all the puppies very cheap for me. She says she used to be a vet tech.
I took my puppy home and from the very beginning, noticed he had a very sloppy walk. It's one of those things that make you tilt your head in a confused manner. Within a week, I took him to my vet for his puppy shots. The vet too was perplexed by his walk. I was instructed to keep an eye on him.
Because the "wobbling" only got worse over the next few months, I was referred to a neurologist. My neurologist has informed me that he has a neurological disorder and possibly wobblers. When I called to warn her through uncontrollable crying she seemed genuinely surprised. She called her vet to talk to the neurologist. She then called me back and told me that the doctors had spoken and that the neurologist said they didn't know what my puppy has. Not true. I called my neurologist and she again confirmed that it was indeed genetic and that she did tell the breeder's vet.
I am very distraught. She doesn't want to take responsibility for her dogs carrying this disease. What she did offer was to take my puppy back and give me another puppy from a litter she is expecting. My puppy is 7 months and we are very attached. I can only wonder what she would do with him, she cannot breed him. I don't want another puppy, more than likely, we never will want another puppy, least of all from her. Will she continue to feed and take care of a dog that she has no use for? My response to her was that she should return the money that I paid for him and I would use it for his very expensive testing. Nothing else. We want to keep our puppy and do everything we can and keep him for all of his life whether it's long or short.
My question is if this is a fair request on my part? We are not rich and would need to borrow money from family members to continue testing.
I have not told my children yet and don't want to make any decisions under the condition that I am right now.
