This is about a show dog but it could just as easily be about a show cat; in truth, though, it is about people. People who are involved with breeding show animals can tend to be too concerned about their “product” as a winner and not concerned enough about the fact that they are working with a feeling animal.
In the instance, I am referring to a beautiful show dog called Cruz. He was a three-year-old Samoyed. To a layperson like me he looked like an all-white husky; very handsome indeed.
Cruz had acquired enough ribbons or points over the season to be awarded the top dog of his breed. He was showing in New York at the Westminster Dog Show. He was bred and owned by Lynette Blue and two people from Indonesia. That is the background.
Cruz was poisoned to death after he appeared at the Westminster Dog Show, so says Lynette Blue’s husband Harold, who is a retired vet. He says Cruz began to bleed from the mouth and suspected rat poison as it stops blood clotting. Harold suspects foul play. A complete tragedy.
Sometimes breeders do become involved in foul play to further their own ends. They do this by nobbling competitors’ dogs. However, Harold blames animal rights activists. The dog’s handler saw a woman with ginger hair a and camera with now show entrance armband hanging around and implicates her.
This red headed woman had complained to the handler about the the fact that Cruz had been debarked. Yes, the breeder had debarked her dog. It has to have been the breeder who had this dangerous operation carried out. I can only presume that she did it to her prized dog to enhance the chance of him winning in the show ring.
Let’s just analysis that for a moment. A breeder put her dog through an acknowledged cruel operation for her benefit, let’s not forget. This is about people, as I said. Then when someone kills her dog her “team” allege that a crazy animal rights activist is the criminal. Isn’t funny how animal rights people are the easy target for people who are cruel to their animals?
That makes two wrongs by this dog’s breeder. Now, if a person is as cold as this breeder is, such that she can debark her dog, she cannot have any empathy for her dog. Perhaps then we could at least suggest (allege) that Lynette Blue and her Indonesian partners are in the frame as possible suspects for the killing of their dog. Cruz’s breeder, Ms Blue, says she contacted the NYPD but the police have no record of receiving a complaint. Strange that. Perhaps this is an insurance scam? – Update: Please see Ruth’s comment below. She thinks the bleeding could be due to botched debarking surgery or a complication of the surgery.
As Ingrid Newark of PETA so correctly proclaims:
If anyone needs to be poisoned it would be the owners, not the poor dog”
The operation need not have been the day before the show. Perhaps the operation was carried out many days before the show but carried out poorly, leaving a weakness which caused bleeding on the day. That seems perfectly feasible to me. Complications due to surgery, especially risky surgery can happen some time after the surgery.
Do you really think they had the dog operated on, what, the day before Westminster? Bleeding could be a complication, but not years or months afterward. Bleeding, even resulting in death, is a larger complication of spay surgery, by the way.
Thank you for your reply that demonstrates your level of expertise.
Thanks CC for visiting and commenting. You think I am despicable. I think you are ignorant and despicable for supporting such an unnecessary and cruel operation that is known to be risky and which can cause serious illness through side effects.
Leave dogs and cats alone. Let them be natural for heaven’s sakes. What is wrong with that. Stop modifying dogs just because it suits you.
In Europe you’d be a criminal, you ignorant fool.
Since Westminster doesn’t offer obedience classes, I’m not sure where they got their facts.
You are misinformed. Debarking is a far less invasive and dangerous procedure than is spaying or neutering, which most animal activists demand be preformed on perfectly healthy dogs. In fact, recent evidence points to long term health detriments of spaying and neutering, but not debarking. Debarking is performed by people who love their dogs and have unsuccessfully tried to quell their overzealous barking in other ways.
Training doesn’t work with dedicated barkers; nor do citronella or shock collars. THOSE are cruel, punishing the dog every time it utters a sound. Debarked dogs can still bark, but it is quieter. Many dog owners are faced with the choice of debarking, rehoming (because sure, everyone wants a barking dog!) or euthanizing their beloved dog. I think your blog is despicable in using the death of a beloved pet to get on your bandwagon about something you know nothing about, and blame the grieving owner.