Oct 2009
It makes your blood boil!
26/10/09 07:34 Filed in: Stories
I highlighted on here a few months back my dismay at how freely some people would pass their broods around as if they were a piece of meat and then claim to actually care about them, whilst this is a minority it still does not sit pretty with myself and I can fully understand why certain groups opposed to racing get angry.
Well I have just read a piece on Greyhound Data and it made my blood boil, first off someone decides that at the tender age of 8 ½ they will take a first litter of their bitch, thats all fine and dandy albeit a bit strange, lots of problems occurred during the birth and the bitch looked a wreck on completion of the birth, this was in June.
Today an appeal has went out from this person asking for someone to home the bitch, the bitch is seemingly great in the house and “ You would never know she is there” but she owns a Staffie and it does not like other dogs and as she has recently taken on a new brood it would appear that this poor bitch is being pushed out, reading a separate thread I would not be too surprised to hear shortly that she has taken on yet another 1, I have no problems her trying to rehome the bitch but the tears, the need for the perfect home to be found, the “How much I love her” lines wears very thin when it is blatantly obvious that it is a case of boot her into touch in order to make room for others, this makes me annoyed and have absolutely NO time for people like this.
The bitch BTW is very under nourished and in the words of the owner herself “ Looks like she has been neglected”, how on earth ANYONE could pass on anything to her is way beyond me, it just shows that some people pass on stock without first vetting where they are going too, it makes me wonder if I am in the right sport.
Whilst some may not like me saying this and some will throw pity her way, personally I find it utterly disgusting and she deserves any sh-t thrown her way.
I hope that cases like this will perhaps have others taking more care were they pass broods onto.
Well I have just read a piece on Greyhound Data and it made my blood boil, first off someone decides that at the tender age of 8 ½ they will take a first litter of their bitch, thats all fine and dandy albeit a bit strange, lots of problems occurred during the birth and the bitch looked a wreck on completion of the birth, this was in June.
Today an appeal has went out from this person asking for someone to home the bitch, the bitch is seemingly great in the house and “ You would never know she is there” but she owns a Staffie and it does not like other dogs and as she has recently taken on a new brood it would appear that this poor bitch is being pushed out, reading a separate thread I would not be too surprised to hear shortly that she has taken on yet another 1, I have no problems her trying to rehome the bitch but the tears, the need for the perfect home to be found, the “How much I love her” lines wears very thin when it is blatantly obvious that it is a case of boot her into touch in order to make room for others, this makes me annoyed and have absolutely NO time for people like this.
The bitch BTW is very under nourished and in the words of the owner herself “ Looks like she has been neglected”, how on earth ANYONE could pass on anything to her is way beyond me, it just shows that some people pass on stock without first vetting where they are going too, it makes me wonder if I am in the right sport.
Whilst some may not like me saying this and some will throw pity her way, personally I find it utterly disgusting and she deserves any sh-t thrown her way.
I hope that cases like this will perhaps have others taking more care were they pass broods onto.
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What A Turnaround
24/10/09 21:00 Filed in: Stories
I woke up on Tuesday morning to find that the head of our GTA had now decided that microchipping was perfectly okay albeit that 3 dogs within 1 month of being chipped had been found to have chips that had migrated, this coming after telling people that one case was one too many, what was more alarming was the flippant statement alluding that it was okay that 200 out of 6 million had other issues without migration.
What I cannot understand is what ACTUAL benefit having greyhounds microchipped does, I am all for welfare and all for having a dog traceable from cradle to grave but I’m certain that there is far better and safer procedures.
Defra has suggested that we as a sport have microchipping in order to be able to correctly identify all dogs, well forgive me for being naive but surely the age old art of earmarking does this, YES it has been known for callous ba---rds to chop a dogs ears off to protect its identity BUT if someone is willing to do this then I am afraid that they would happily cut a dog open in order to remove a chip, should this happen then we would be back to having a dog completely untraceable.
The most fool proof solution would be for EVERY single pup born in The Uk to have a DNA sample taken at the time of earmarking, this could NOT be tampered with, I would be more than happy to give up my time to have this done and I would be much happier that I would not be possibly subjecting my dogs to anything that may harm them in the future.
I am also aware that our sport is under severe pressure from outside parties but by giving into their every whim we are only setting ourselves up for a major fall, today it is microchipping and tomorrow it will be something else, eventually we will be so stangled that we will have no breath left in us.
On the racing front things have been very quiet but I have a good feeling about the future.
All the pups continue to impress me and are all looking very strong and bolshy.
New Pictures of Baby Marge and Jazz Hurricanes pups recently added to the Galleries pages.
I have taken ownership of Farloe Merlin who is litter brother to Fear Zafonic and ½ brother to many Group 1 dogs including Ninja Jamie, Farloe Reason and Farloe Lee, I shall be standing him at Stud and will be offering him up for free in UK and shall be having straws, at cost price, shipped to Australia, already the feedback is superb and anyone wishing to use him in UK or pre order a straw for Australia should contact me, I honestly think he will be a huge success.
Recent winners Moorland Rob at Belle Vue, Smoking Jim,Baron Samedi and Ashbys Hawk at Hove, Foulden Rebel at Portsmouth, Andreas Quest at Newcastle and Shimano Sumo at Henlow.
Total Reared Winners 848
What I cannot understand is what ACTUAL benefit having greyhounds microchipped does, I am all for welfare and all for having a dog traceable from cradle to grave but I’m certain that there is far better and safer procedures.
Defra has suggested that we as a sport have microchipping in order to be able to correctly identify all dogs, well forgive me for being naive but surely the age old art of earmarking does this, YES it has been known for callous ba---rds to chop a dogs ears off to protect its identity BUT if someone is willing to do this then I am afraid that they would happily cut a dog open in order to remove a chip, should this happen then we would be back to having a dog completely untraceable.
The most fool proof solution would be for EVERY single pup born in The Uk to have a DNA sample taken at the time of earmarking, this could NOT be tampered with, I would be more than happy to give up my time to have this done and I would be much happier that I would not be possibly subjecting my dogs to anything that may harm them in the future.
I am also aware that our sport is under severe pressure from outside parties but by giving into their every whim we are only setting ourselves up for a major fall, today it is microchipping and tomorrow it will be something else, eventually we will be so stangled that we will have no breath left in us.
On the racing front things have been very quiet but I have a good feeling about the future.
All the pups continue to impress me and are all looking very strong and bolshy.
New Pictures of Baby Marge and Jazz Hurricanes pups recently added to the Galleries pages.
I have taken ownership of Farloe Merlin who is litter brother to Fear Zafonic and ½ brother to many Group 1 dogs including Ninja Jamie, Farloe Reason and Farloe Lee, I shall be standing him at Stud and will be offering him up for free in UK and shall be having straws, at cost price, shipped to Australia, already the feedback is superb and anyone wishing to use him in UK or pre order a straw for Australia should contact me, I honestly think he will be a huge success.
Recent winners Moorland Rob at Belle Vue, Smoking Jim,Baron Samedi and Ashbys Hawk at Hove, Foulden Rebel at Portsmouth, Andreas Quest at Newcastle and Shimano Sumo at Henlow.
Total Reared Winners 848
The Hardships of Breeding
11/10/09 18:43 Filed in: Stories
Typical of this sport, just when you think things are picking up and you receive some good news, along comes the big man upstairs to kick you back down.
On Saturday I was showing some people all the pups with the view to them buying, whilst in with Droopys Lenas pups we were all laughing at the antics of the 4 week old pups as they scragged each other etc when one of the fawn boys suddenly started shaking, I quickly grabbed him and checked that nothing was blocking his airwaves and I knew instantly that the poor lad was going to die and I felt terrible for the visitors.
I quickly excused myself whilst I rushed the pup to the vet but sadly by the time I arrived he had passed away, I instructed them to carry out a post mortem as I needed to know if I had anything to worry over the other pups in the litter, on receiving the call later from the vet it was apparent that one of the pups arteries between the Heart and Lung had split and on opening him up his chest was full of blood, this explains the suddenness of it all, this part of the process is not easy to take but life does go on.
Lenas first litter to Droopys Maldini are going very well with one of the lads clocking 26-40 at Ockendon today, this is his 2nd time out the box and he looks to have a very bright future, his brother who is a bit greener clocked 27-10, the other brothers in Ireland look full of potential with one clocking 16-60 at Clonmel 2nd time out the box, the other lad has not yet been out the box as he is struggling in taking the bends which the schooler feels is down to him going too fast, he has been fully checked over by a professional in case he was feeling anything but nothing was found, all in, the litter looks promising to say the least.
Droopys Rosari has come in season and I have decided to send her to Boherduff Light, this shall be my first litter to this sire and I am very much looking forward to the outcome, if he can put the tenacity and speed he had into his pups I will be more than happy.
All the other pups here are doing fine and growing very nicely.
I have decided that my Free Draw for a pup , to show my appreciation for all my owners past and present, shall be a Bitch from Hondo Black x Baby Marge litter, I shall rear it on to 12 months old for free whereby it shall become the responsibility of the winning owner, there will however be a small twist in that this pup cannot be sold on, to ensure this, I shall remain as part owner albeit I shall take nothing to do with the day to day running of the pup, my only concern is that the pup has a safe and full life ahead, should any owners not be happy with this then please feel free to cancel yourself from the draw.
The draw shall take place in December which will give anyone that buys a pup, up to end of November, the chance to be entered into the draw.
I am also considering selling Calendars with all profits being donated to RGT, if anyone would be interested in purchasing one please e-mail me questhousekennels@googlemail.com and if there are enough numbers I shall put one together, I will enquire this week as to what the price may be.
Recent winners are Smoking Jim and Sugar Fix at Hove, Boulanger Boy at Clonmel, Lenn Swartz at Newcastle, Foulden Rebel at Portsmouth, Vote For Pedro at Belle Vue, Bluechip Me at Oxford, Advantage Martti at Coventry, Bonjour Paula at Nottingham and Wigmore Bomber at Henlow.
Total winners from Kennel are 841
On Saturday I was showing some people all the pups with the view to them buying, whilst in with Droopys Lenas pups we were all laughing at the antics of the 4 week old pups as they scragged each other etc when one of the fawn boys suddenly started shaking, I quickly grabbed him and checked that nothing was blocking his airwaves and I knew instantly that the poor lad was going to die and I felt terrible for the visitors.
I quickly excused myself whilst I rushed the pup to the vet but sadly by the time I arrived he had passed away, I instructed them to carry out a post mortem as I needed to know if I had anything to worry over the other pups in the litter, on receiving the call later from the vet it was apparent that one of the pups arteries between the Heart and Lung had split and on opening him up his chest was full of blood, this explains the suddenness of it all, this part of the process is not easy to take but life does go on.
Lenas first litter to Droopys Maldini are going very well with one of the lads clocking 26-40 at Ockendon today, this is his 2nd time out the box and he looks to have a very bright future, his brother who is a bit greener clocked 27-10, the other brothers in Ireland look full of potential with one clocking 16-60 at Clonmel 2nd time out the box, the other lad has not yet been out the box as he is struggling in taking the bends which the schooler feels is down to him going too fast, he has been fully checked over by a professional in case he was feeling anything but nothing was found, all in, the litter looks promising to say the least.
Droopys Rosari has come in season and I have decided to send her to Boherduff Light, this shall be my first litter to this sire and I am very much looking forward to the outcome, if he can put the tenacity and speed he had into his pups I will be more than happy.
All the other pups here are doing fine and growing very nicely.
I have decided that my Free Draw for a pup , to show my appreciation for all my owners past and present, shall be a Bitch from Hondo Black x Baby Marge litter, I shall rear it on to 12 months old for free whereby it shall become the responsibility of the winning owner, there will however be a small twist in that this pup cannot be sold on, to ensure this, I shall remain as part owner albeit I shall take nothing to do with the day to day running of the pup, my only concern is that the pup has a safe and full life ahead, should any owners not be happy with this then please feel free to cancel yourself from the draw.
The draw shall take place in December which will give anyone that buys a pup, up to end of November, the chance to be entered into the draw.
I am also considering selling Calendars with all profits being donated to RGT, if anyone would be interested in purchasing one please e-mail me questhousekennels@googlemail.com and if there are enough numbers I shall put one together, I will enquire this week as to what the price may be.
Recent winners are Smoking Jim and Sugar Fix at Hove, Boulanger Boy at Clonmel, Lenn Swartz at Newcastle, Foulden Rebel at Portsmouth, Vote For Pedro at Belle Vue, Bluechip Me at Oxford, Advantage Martti at Coventry, Bonjour Paula at Nottingham and Wigmore Bomber at Henlow.
Total winners from Kennel are 841