Dick and Jane decided to get a puppy one day. Their friend Bob had an adorable male Chorgi that Dick and Jane had often admired.
Dick and Jane found a Chorgi breeder online and chatted with them. Dick and Jane were good candidates for a Chorgi–they were familiar with their personality, Dick stayed home during the day so the puppy wouldn’t be left alone for long periods of time and both Dick and Jane had been raised around dogs.
The breeder sold them a lovely Chorgi puppy and when they went to pick their puppy up, the breeder spent a couple of hours with them discussing lots of things–what food to feed the puppy, how to carry the puppy properly (“Never let a Chorgi puppy go down the stairs!” the breeder told them). Dick and Jane both listened to all the ‘instructions’ that were given (though they were somewhat distracted by the 8 Chorgi puppies running around and playing) and both remembered being told something about their Chorgi being a ‘carrier’ for some sort of disorder, although neither could remember exactly what the name of the disorder was (they were pretty sure it was two words, each with many syllables). The breeder also told them the puppy needed to be spayed when it was six months old.
Dick and Jane named their puppy “Spot”–Spot was sold to them on a limited registration because the breeder didn’t want any puppy owners to be using ‘pet’ dogs for breeding purposes. Spot grew up to be a lovely female Chorgi. She had purple eyes that dazzled everyone who saw them and she was smart–she learned lots of tricks. Jane took Spot to work with her some days and everyone there loved Spot’s personality. Sometimes people would even ask Jane if she had ever thought of breeding Spot because she was such a great dog.
When Spot turned two, Dick and Jane decided they should think about spaying her. When they took her to the vet for a set of vaccinations, the vet told them it would cost $300 to have her spayed. Dick and Jane were surprised it would cost so much–that was almost as much money as they had spent on Spot in the first place.
Dick and Jane’s friend Bob also loved Spot. Bob owned “Sam” the adorable male Chorgi that had lead Dick and Jane to get a Chorgi in the first place. One day when they were visiting with each other and letting the Chorgis play, Bob asked Dick and Jane if they had ever thought about breeding Spot. She was cute, had a great personality and seemed plenty healthy. And, after all, Bob reasoned, if Spot had just one litter of puppies that were worth a few hundred dollars each, that would be more than enough money to cover the cost of spaying her later.
Dick and Jane remembered the conversation they had two years earlier with Spot’s breeder–they told Bob there was some genetic condition Spot was a ‘carrier’ for. Bob got very excited–he remembered that when he got Sam, the breeder had told him Sam was ALSO a carrier for that disorder (mygenerative dyopathy). “Don’t worry”, Bob told Dick and Jane. “If we breed two carriers together, all the puppies will be carriers too!” That made Dick and Jane feel much better–they didn’t want any of the puppies to have problems.
The two Chorgis were bred to each other and a litter of 10 lovely baby Chorgis came to be. Dick and Jane, having long since misplaced the registration form needed to register Spot, realized it wouldn’t be possible to get papers for the puppies from the AKC, but it only took a few seconds of searching online to find the “Dog Registry of America, Inc” who actually state on their website:
Now that all their Chorgis would have official papers, Dick and Jane could feel good about selling them to other people.
“Purebred Papered Chorgis. $500″.
10 years later, 1 of the Spot/Sam puppies can no longer walk–his hind end weakened by a mysterious disorder. One other puppy from the litter (who really was a carrier) was bred to an ‘at risk’ dog and produced a litter of 7 puppies…
