(Sorry for the wait I lost my harddrive :< but I still have some of Mom’s treasure to share. Stan)

Don’t breed your dog “Happy Endings” by Turtle Gardens Animal Rehabilitation Society

There in the Smithers Feed Store was posted one of the reasons for euthanasia of healthy puppies. “Looking to breed a LAB CROSS female with a lab male or golden retriever. Contact …..” Who it is, is not important but the message is.  The pounds and shelters are full of lab cross puppies. Why are you breeding your dog?

        Coco Bear and Speckles were scheduled to be euthanised or in layman terms - put to death because they had been in the pound for their allotted time. They were four months old. Cute as only puppies can be, one is chocolate brown the other white with reddish flecks, both males yet supposed to die. Dazzle is a fluffy, golden retriever mix just like what you are planning to breed but she was scheduled to die too. Dazzle is eight weeks old. Ranger is a ten week old lab/ shepherd mix. Smart, eager to learn, friendly, he was in the pound. Although not a lab mix, Bernie was rescued minutes from death as the veterinarian, knowing how overloaded we are, thought him too big and hard to place. At over one hundred pounds and thirty two inches tall, he was a big boy although under a year old. But he is also a gentle giant. And rehomed in five days. Someone bred their Saint Bernard to a Great Pyrenees. How many will end up in the pound on death row?
 
Dog pounds are the greatest source of unwanted pets that we see here at Turtle Gardens. If we don’t take them, they die. It’s as simple as that. They need vaccinations and worming. Usually in poor condition, they also need good quality food to build them up. And they need to be spayed or neutered. This week, a lovely little collie mix came in. She was in season when picked up, bred of course(they got the male too, but he was redeemed) and very thin. She is scheduled for a spay in early February and hopefully our bank account will have improved.  We were too late to spay Mariah so she blessed us with four puppies on January 24th. She arrived on January 11th from the pound.  She can be viewed on the Latest news page of www.turtlegardens.freehomepage.com   Her puppies will have their pictures taken when they are two weeks old and will be offered for adoption when seven weeks old. Mariah will be spayed before adoption.

There is no good reason to breed your mixed breed dog. Puppies are dying every day. Save a life and adopt a puppy from your pound or local shelter.
 Please Be part of the solution - Spay or Neuter your Pet.
To contact Turtle Gardens, email turtleg@uniserve.com , phone 696-3188 or write Box 230, Topley, B.C.  VOJ 2Y0

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