Re: [PyrNet-L] Re: Pyrenees en guarde

[Ken McNamara <conmara@oaktree.net>]

Lene -

Ouch...sorry...

I should have said...my wife would turn green watching her 'pretty' Pyrs
each her dead  pet sheep.<g>

My Pyrs don't get a chance at roadkills - big fence, electric - so I
prevent it completely.

But, I'm now really curious about the impact of a lack of carrion on a
dogs overall health.  And I'm wondering how to supplement it.  In the
past I would have taken anything like that away...now I'm not so sure.

KenMc


> Lene Nielsen wrote:
> 
> >>Since it's
> probable that people breeding pretty dogs would turn green watching
> them
> eat a dead sheep.<<
> 
> Hi Ken
> 
> Why do you just assume that people breeding "pretty" dogs are
> squeamish, or that they don't like their dogs to be dogs. Most dogs -
> whether pyrenees or not - will eat carrion if they get the chance.
> I breed what I consider pretty dogs, but they are still allowed to be
> dogs.
> Now I have no sheep, so I don't feed sheep carrion, but my dogs eat
> road-kills, when they get the chance. I don't much like it and prevent
> it if possible, but it certainly doesn't turn me green or worry me
> much. It apparently has not done them any harm so far, but I doubt
> they have had much benefit from it either.
> 
> Since your are a sensitive guy, Ken, maybe I shoud add, that I am not
> trying to be offensive, just wanted to say that allthough I agree that
> cudling and overprotecting your breeding dogs may not be good for the
> breed, I resent the indication that just because I want my dogs to
> look a special way, this is what I do.
> 
> Lene