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Originally Posted by smudgley
I'm not joining in.... but just to say on a general note....yes oxytocin is peanuts to buy, but is a very powerful drug & needs to be administered under close supervision of a vet. But if given when there is secondary inertia it can quite easily cause a uterus to contract so much that the uterus can rupture & cause real problems. Not a drug that should be sold to people who are not medically trained.
Bills vary from vet to vet. Some will charge £50 per shot of oxytocin.  I have an itemised bill I can show you for £50 per jab and the bitch was given 3 jabs.
C/S can vary from £300 up to over £1000.
I have a vet bill awaiting payment for a dog C/S for £1400. Ridiculous but true!
last comment on the subject...... Lab pups are £550 / £600, well the breeders we deal with are charging that.
And that's it from me on this subject.....
THE END! 
Ok, I said that was it, but Dawn I think you are being harsh... how do you think GD's should be bred then out of interest? And I think it's unfair to say they have haggered faces. They are kept in tip top condition & are retired at 7yrs, most then go on to live to 14/16yrs.
And how do GD's gain from their dogs? What exactly do GD's gain? |
@ Smudgley.
Personally I wouldnt breed more than 3 litters from any bitch I think thats plenty, especially when you consider they have upto 14 pups at a time (I know not every time) but the chosen breeds do have big litters.
I went to a GD fete/show thingy a couple of years ago, it was in aid of GD too. There were loads of brood bitches and ex breeding bitches there and an awful lot of them looked terrible. under carriages on the floor, very very old and tired looking and some of them were still being used. Perhaps it had little to do with being bred from every year for about 5 yrs, but I think it might. Its personal opinion only, many people use dogs in this way and for different reasons. I never said they werent care for either, I said they were cared for beautifully!
What do GD get out of it? Well they are running a business. They are an organisation that can afford an awful lot, the very care I was talking of etc... so they must in fact get enough to be able to employ people to run the GD, train the dogs, and pay puppy walkers etc..
If you want to talk about what they hope to achieve, then Id see that differently. I think they'd like to achieve what they already do, providing people with vision difficulties with dogs, that usually totally transform their lives and also give them a loving companion to share their working lives together with.
