Claire, a disabled harlequin Great Dane on the first day of her new life after being rescued from a torture breeder where she suffered for 4 years. She is doing much better now.
Oh Claire,
I’m sorry for all the suffering you’ve experienced in your life. It’s one thing for me to write about qualzucht, torture breeding, and to think and debate about it in the abstract. But when theory hits reality, when real dogs with real names and real stories come forth, it’s nearly impossible to remain objective and dispassionate given the true suffering you qualzucht dogs go through.
You have been tortured. You were genetically tortured by the breeder who created you when they deliberately bred two Harlequin Great Danes together, doubling up on at least two lethal genes (harlequin and merle) and possibly doubling down on other genes known to contribute to deafness and blindness. It’s likely that more than half the puppies that shared your mother’s womb died before birth from these defects, but you survived.
You were further tortured by this breeder when they neglected to provide any real care for you, letting you suffer from a slew of debilitating conditions. They allowed parasitic demodectic mange mites to run rampant and cover the majority of your body, they allowed parasitic yeast to invade most of your orifices, and they allowed parasitic worms to invade your heart. Your hearing, vision, and immune system were trashed by your parasitic breeder leaving you defenseless against further exploitation.
You were tortured again when this breeder used you to produce Great Dane Puppies to sell in the open market and then dumped you in a shelter as soon as the puppies were sold.
Parasites are organisms that invade other life forms and leech sustenance at the expense of their host. Mange, yeast, and heartworms are all lower life form parasites that prey on higher life forms. The person who bred you is just a low life who has habitually tortured and exploited you and gave you nothing in return.
Man is the highest life form known to exist, yet the person who tortured you in so many ways is the lowest of the low.
I’m sorry Claire. I’m sorry we did this to you by not speaking out stronger against horrible breeding practices and condemning parasite breeders. I’m sorry that we rewarded your parasite breeder by buying your puppies. I’m sorry that those breeders who consider themselves elite and the highest of the high do the exact same things that have caused you so much pain by breeding harlequin to harlequin, merle to merle. They are parasites too.
But there are better people out there Claire and I’m glad you’ve finally found some at the Foster to Furever community, the people at Big Dog Rescue, and April Albin who has been fostering you during your recovery. The last four years of abuse and starvation must have been hell, Claire, but you’ve been given a new life now.
So happy one month rebirthday, Claire, you’re already a new dog and on your way to a better life.
Claire, one month into her recovery. The mange can be treated but her compromised immune system is forever. Food can cure the starvation she suffered. But the deafness and blindness that were caused by her breeder are permanent and not treatable.
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That poor poor girl. At least she’s getting some much needed TLC. I will never understand the so-called ethics of anyone who is willing to breed and capitalize upon debilitating genetics for reasons that amount to nothing more than “it looks pretty”. Makes me sick
Demodex infestations are almost always the result of a suppressed immune system.
And that’s usually the result of some bad breeding decisions, too.
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The dog always pays. Whatever the humans do, it’s the dog that pays.
That’s a bad dog breader who breeds dogs like that one and then makes it hurt.
I hope they put them out of business if they can’t supply a replacement puppy!
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Your incorrect president/ Muslim link then linked to a crazy wrong link about African wild dogs. I don’t know a thing about breeding merle dogs, but I do in fact raise the very endangered African wild dogs, and every single thing you stated about them is dead wrong, including their color. They are not merles. They are not descendants of domestic breeds of dogs. And so on….
Zoo girl
You obviously don’t love Jesus.
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His blog is intended to be humorous. :/
Kudos to CLaire’s Rescuers they have done an
outstanding turn around. This is not a breeding that any reputable or responsible breeder would do. Does anyone know the cost or the man hours? Kathy Bittorf
Poor poor girl. =[
Some people make me sick.
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I am so sorry people did this to you Claire. You are such a sweet soul to have endured this treatment. I wonder what your breeder said when she was selling your babies and people asked where their mother was? Are any of your babies suffering now because of them? I am happy you have a new life and hopefully somebody will come along soon and give you all the love in the world….which was your birthright… I am embarrassed to be what people call the higher primate….dogs would not treat us like this….
Be Happy Claire and forget your past life. Life will start for you now. You may never be able to see the birds or hear their song, but you can smell the wonderful grass and flowers and find your way to love our world.
I see so much horrible things done to animals. I hope this guy got put in jail. But sometimes I really do wish for vigiliantiism. For the old days when people slew and hung deviants and the community let them.
God bless you for the work you do. I also saw a documentary on dogs in the U.K. Crufts Dog show put up a cavalier king charles spaniel with a disease called syringomyElia. This dog has sired over 20litters this disease produces Skulls to small for the brain the dog is in horrible pain and has to be put down. THIS IS ALL ABOUT MONEY. SAD.