I wonder if nastybreeder tried to get some pigs from Teresa? Why else?
Cecitis is not a regular veterinary term here. I easily figured out what you were referring to, but anyone can stick a suffix and a prefix together. It doesn´t make a true word. It is in none of the well-respected texts I have. What you are referring to is correctly termed colitis. Perhaps you are not in the US?
Sodium pentobarbital (euthanasia solution) does not kill an animal through muscle hypoxia. CO2 is exactly on the top of the AVMA list of inhumane and unacceptable euthanasias. Put a plastic bag on your head and see what it feels like!
You must be in some third world country (with a computer?) if your vets think prolapsed rectums should be euthanized. They are so easily treated. If you are having this problem with a lot of pups, then there is a strong possibility you are breeding animals with high propensity for this condition. It IS NOT a common cavy problem at all. Do you euthanize all pigs with abscesses and scratches since they are uncomfortable and have to go through some discomfort in the healing process?!
Euthanizing pigs with colitis is also unethical. A simple dose of Reglan does do wonders. Some Banamine works wonders as well. But you don´t believe in humane pain control, do you?
"Bloat" if in reference to GIT motility problems is very similar to colic in horses. It is treatable in both species. A lot of factors come into play, but where I live we have a very viable horse practice that does not euthanize most colics. Time and treatment are of the essence.
Spays and neuters unethical? Whoa! Certainly, then you are unaware of the many health benefits and preventions of deadly diseases that spaying and neutering gives ALL companion animals. It is a must in ferrets unless you back-breed them, lest they die. So, a few weeks of careful recuperation is too much for a lifetime without pyometra, toxemia, dystocia, cancers (up the wazoo), prostate problems, etc?
It appears you aren´t willing to give any basic care to your animals. Certainly, I even fear for the humans around you. I doubt your breeding pays for itself or your own food.
"Quality" is certainly a matter of opinion. Character is not.
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There is a difference between sticking a plastic bag on your head and suffocating and breathing in CO2. One is a horifying traumatic experice the other is simply drifting off to sleep.
Why do you think that so many people choose co2 for suicide? It is easy and painless, trust me I have had enough brushes with CO2 to know that it would be a nice way to go.
Of course the AVMA doesn´t consider CO2 a humane method, doesn´t make them much money does it? Unless the vet sees the animal they don´t make money. The USDA considers it humane...
What do you think Hindus feel about everyone stoping at McDonald´s Arby´s Burger King Wendy´s for a quick snack of their sacred animals? They are pretty mortified too! We have many ways of preparing cow that must make them boil under the skin, just as the thought of people eating cavies does to you. Why is it so horrible for cavy fanciers to eat their culls but it is okay for people in Peru to eat them? How about rabbit breeders? Is it okay for them to eat their culls?
It is all about perspective.
Pet overpopulation is a problem
Why do you think that so many people choose co2 for suicide? It is easy and painless, trust me I have had enough brushes with CO2 to know that it would be a nice way to go.
Of course the AVMA doesn´t consider CO2 a humane method, doesn´t make them much money does it? Unless the vet sees the animal they don´t make money. The USDA considers it humane...
What do you think Hindus feel about everyone stoping at McDonald´s Arby´s Burger King Wendy´s for a quick snack of their sacred animals? They are pretty mortified too! We have many ways of preparing cow that must make them boil under the skin, just as the thought of people eating cavies does to you. Why is it so horrible for cavy fanciers to eat their culls but it is okay for people in Peru to eat them? How about rabbit breeders? Is it okay for them to eat their culls?
It is all about perspective.
Pet overpopulation is a problem
Nasty breeder - your posts are so hugely inflammatory, I can´t help thinking that you must live under a bridge somewhere, with little billygoats trip-trapping over your head...
Piggypie, in some cultures it´s considered quite ethical to eat people. Try posting that on a forum board and not getting a heated response. I don´t think anyone´s attempting to slam people for eating the animals of their choice. What´s under debate here is the care (or lack of) that this breeder has for his/her animals and the fact that he/she seems to prefer ´humane´ killing to appropriate medical treatment.
Piggypie, in some cultures it´s considered quite ethical to eat people. Try posting that on a forum board and not getting a heated response. I don´t think anyone´s attempting to slam people for eating the animals of their choice. What´s under debate here is the care (or lack of) that this breeder has for his/her animals and the fact that he/she seems to prefer ´humane´ killing to appropriate medical treatment.
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In the same vein I think anyone that spays or neuters a cavy is inflicting needless pain on an animal. That´s a pretty silly thing to say. Several of us have had our female cavies with ovarian cysts spayed. It makes a remarkable difference in their quality of life. You should take a look at the pic of those 2 1/2" in diameter cysts that were pulled from a pig recently on the reference forum. That would be like taking a couple basketballs from your abdomen.
As for being a dictator, it is inappropriate to use this forum to pick on Teresa. And in doing so, you´ve opened yourselves up to personal criticism. This forum is basically here to share information, have fun and occasionally debate ideas. You have the ability to pull it from personal criticism to debate.
People who have pointed out your lack of addressing some of the issues and questions brought up are right on. I suggest you instead start your own thread (Jahcqui and nastybreeder) to discuss what constitutes a good breeder and some of the issues raised.
I do feel people who get into breeding for fun but have NO medical knowledge of cavy illnesses or who have not thought out their personal responsibility for their animals and are willing to help them, have NO BUSINESS breeding. We don´t have enough information to evaluate whether the medical care you give your animals is good, adequate or totally lacking. What kind of problems have you had? What are your typical solutions? Do you have antibiotics available? When would you give them? There is alot of care that a breeder could give their animals (parasite treatment) but ruling out veterinary help soley because of cost is irresponsible. I doubt many breeders consistently go the extra mile.
As for being a dictator, it is inappropriate to use this forum to pick on Teresa. And in doing so, you´ve opened yourselves up to personal criticism. This forum is basically here to share information, have fun and occasionally debate ideas. You have the ability to pull it from personal criticism to debate.
People who have pointed out your lack of addressing some of the issues and questions brought up are right on. I suggest you instead start your own thread (Jahcqui and nastybreeder) to discuss what constitutes a good breeder and some of the issues raised.
I do feel people who get into breeding for fun but have NO medical knowledge of cavy illnesses or who have not thought out their personal responsibility for their animals and are willing to help them, have NO BUSINESS breeding. We don´t have enough information to evaluate whether the medical care you give your animals is good, adequate or totally lacking. What kind of problems have you had? What are your typical solutions? Do you have antibiotics available? When would you give them? There is alot of care that a breeder could give their animals (parasite treatment) but ruling out veterinary help soley because of cost is irresponsible. I doubt many breeders consistently go the extra mile.
Why is it so horrible for
cavy fanciers to eat their culls but it is okay for people in Peru to eat them?
piggypie - culture. In China dogs are eaten but I daresay a restaurant specializing in dog would not go over well in North America. And I think people might not be very accepting of dog breeders who dine on their extra puppies. In Europe they eat horses. In fact there is a restaurant in Brussels that specializes in horsemeat. Unlikely to do well in North America. In African countries bugs and larva can be bought at the market for a nice meal. Go ahead - open a larva/bug bistro in North America and see how well it fares. There´s a restaurant in Hong Kong that specializes in rats. Care to open the first North American Franchise?
nastybreeder, I am familiar with the size of the pigs eaten in South America having a few friends who like to travel and yank my chain by taking pics of themselves, knife and fork raised over roast cavy on a spit. About 1 Kg. Also have a pic (brought back by a friend´s globetrotting mother of a herd of pigs and the oven where they will eventually meet their demise. Average size. Apparently the attempt to grow them bigger has met a snag in that the locals have been cooking the bigger pigs leaving the smaller ones for breeding. Thanks for your kind offer to get me in touch for donating to meat production project. But I already have my favourite charities picked out and don´t have room on my list for yours.
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recognizing when the animal has no hope of recovery and having the guts to quickly put it out of its misery. In
the same vein I think anyone that spays or neuters a cavy is inflicting needless pain on an animal.
Good thing you don´t have my pigs - you would have killed half of them. I highly doubt you have the experience or expertise to recognize when an animal has no hope of recovery. This thread has made that clear. Sounds like your "guts" is more like a choice of cost effectiveness. Treatment and diagnostics cost money. Killing them in the barn doesn´t.
You would have killed Shiraz. Skin and bones, losing weight, ribs dissolving, bones at risk of snapping. Would you have bothered to find out why? I doubt it. Well, she´s fine now. Has to be on high dose calcium supplements twice daily for life. My vet gave her a poor prognosis.
You would have killed Gemma. Massive post-op complications after a medically necessary spay. Definitely in misery. Not anymore. Probably will need to be on a hormone med for life but is happy and recovering.
You would have killed Willie, Bloom and Tiramissou. All pigs with a poor prognosis who made it because instead of killing them(the easy route) we got them treatment.
Face it - your pigs are products. Which begs the question of why you are posting on a forum where people regard their pigs as pets. Don´t you have a breeder forum to post on or was your axe so blunt you had to drag it over here for grinding?
Do you serve any purpose here other than as an irritant?
cavy fanciers to eat their culls but it is okay for people in Peru to eat them?
piggypie - culture. In China dogs are eaten but I daresay a restaurant specializing in dog would not go over well in North America. And I think people might not be very accepting of dog breeders who dine on their extra puppies. In Europe they eat horses. In fact there is a restaurant in Brussels that specializes in horsemeat. Unlikely to do well in North America. In African countries bugs and larva can be bought at the market for a nice meal. Go ahead - open a larva/bug bistro in North America and see how well it fares. There´s a restaurant in Hong Kong that specializes in rats. Care to open the first North American Franchise?
nastybreeder, I am familiar with the size of the pigs eaten in South America having a few friends who like to travel and yank my chain by taking pics of themselves, knife and fork raised over roast cavy on a spit. About 1 Kg. Also have a pic (brought back by a friend´s globetrotting mother of a herd of pigs and the oven where they will eventually meet their demise. Average size. Apparently the attempt to grow them bigger has met a snag in that the locals have been cooking the bigger pigs leaving the smaller ones for breeding. Thanks for your kind offer to get me in touch for donating to meat production project. But I already have my favourite charities picked out and don´t have room on my list for yours.
This includes
recognizing when the animal has no hope of recovery and having the guts to quickly put it out of its misery. In
the same vein I think anyone that spays or neuters a cavy is inflicting needless pain on an animal.
Good thing you don´t have my pigs - you would have killed half of them. I highly doubt you have the experience or expertise to recognize when an animal has no hope of recovery. This thread has made that clear. Sounds like your "guts" is more like a choice of cost effectiveness. Treatment and diagnostics cost money. Killing them in the barn doesn´t.
You would have killed Shiraz. Skin and bones, losing weight, ribs dissolving, bones at risk of snapping. Would you have bothered to find out why? I doubt it. Well, she´s fine now. Has to be on high dose calcium supplements twice daily for life. My vet gave her a poor prognosis.
You would have killed Gemma. Massive post-op complications after a medically necessary spay. Definitely in misery. Not anymore. Probably will need to be on a hormone med for life but is happy and recovering.
You would have killed Willie, Bloom and Tiramissou. All pigs with a poor prognosis who made it because instead of killing them(the easy route) we got them treatment.
Face it - your pigs are products. Which begs the question of why you are posting on a forum where people regard their pigs as pets. Don´t you have a breeder forum to post on or was your axe so blunt you had to drag it over here for grinding?
Do you serve any purpose here other than as an irritant?
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I´m in agreement that guinea pigs are not people. Why would you think they are? I believe in respecting a creature for what it IS, not what you want it to be. I defer to their nature, not mine. I also believe guinea pigs have feelings, think in their own way, and communicate to humans, but not on the same level as we communicate to each other. My belief is my pigs would rather be surrounded by their own kind than by me, except for feeding time.
I once had a sow who prolapsed her uterus. I took her to the vet immediately. The vet performed an emergency spay. Two days and $800 later I got the call that my sow had died. I felt so horrible for making her go through all that pain before she passed. She deserved to have a peaceful death, not to be cut and sutured and poked and prodded and worse yet - isolated from her herd! I will never do that again. Not because of the money, but because it was inhumane.
If I know an animal is going to die, and with rodents, it is pretty easy to tell - they get a ´look´ when there is no turning back, I think it´s much more honest and loving to be responsible for it myself. Why turn them over to the hands of a stranger? Because I´m too lilly-livered to be responsible for their health? When I have an animal I know can be saved, I´d stay up day and night to do it. When I know there is something to be done, but I can´t do it, I´d take it to a vet. However, with the current dearth of cavy-trained vets, a breeder who has been around longer than a few years knows a whole lot more and most everything you need can be obtained at a feed store. In my opinion, that´s taking a whole lot more responsibility for their health than dragging them to a vet. I know a few vets who would agree.
And here´s my stance on the culling/eating/whatever practices of some breeders: TOLERANCE. Not to say I agree with it all, but there comes a time when one must realize that you have no control over others (no matter how much you want it) and there is a higher being that takes care of everything. Do what you can, but let go and let god once in a while. It frees up a lot of energy for the doing what you can part.
I once had a sow who prolapsed her uterus. I took her to the vet immediately. The vet performed an emergency spay. Two days and $800 later I got the call that my sow had died. I felt so horrible for making her go through all that pain before she passed. She deserved to have a peaceful death, not to be cut and sutured and poked and prodded and worse yet - isolated from her herd! I will never do that again. Not because of the money, but because it was inhumane.
If I know an animal is going to die, and with rodents, it is pretty easy to tell - they get a ´look´ when there is no turning back, I think it´s much more honest and loving to be responsible for it myself. Why turn them over to the hands of a stranger? Because I´m too lilly-livered to be responsible for their health? When I have an animal I know can be saved, I´d stay up day and night to do it. When I know there is something to be done, but I can´t do it, I´d take it to a vet. However, with the current dearth of cavy-trained vets, a breeder who has been around longer than a few years knows a whole lot more and most everything you need can be obtained at a feed store. In my opinion, that´s taking a whole lot more responsibility for their health than dragging them to a vet. I know a few vets who would agree.
And here´s my stance on the culling/eating/whatever practices of some breeders: TOLERANCE. Not to say I agree with it all, but there comes a time when one must realize that you have no control over others (no matter how much you want it) and there is a higher being that takes care of everything. Do what you can, but let go and let god once in a while. It frees up a lot of energy for the doing what you can part.
Perhaps letting the really sick pigs go peacefully would help the overpopulation problem? Could open up homes that are currently finacially, physically and emotionally too bogged down to accept more animals.
I guess living in a multi cultural society has made me more tolerant of others beliefs and practises than you pinta.
It is very easy for me to say "not something I want to do/eat, but it is okay that you want to do so"
I have also noticed that everyone here seems to treat Teressa in a very numinous way... interesting.
I guess living in a multi cultural society has made me more tolerant of others beliefs and practises than you pinta.
It is very easy for me to say "not something I want to do/eat, but it is okay that you want to do so"
I have also noticed that everyone here seems to treat Teressa in a very numinous way... interesting.
Nastybreeder, I don´t know what kind of vet you have that would charge $100 to put a pig to sleep. Leo had liver cancer, and when the time came, there was no stress. Except for the shot, he stayed in my arms the whole time. He was not anxious or frightened. I think it is worse to stick them in a box and gas them where they are not comforted by companions, human or cavy.
It cost $20.
Numen - guiding spirit or deity. Hmmm... maybe Teresa´s gift with cavies could be described this way. I don´t know, I´ve never met her.
It cost $20.
Numen - guiding spirit or deity. Hmmm... maybe Teresa´s gift with cavies could be described this way. I don´t know, I´ve never met her.
This thread has been very enlightening. I knew that snake people used CO2 to kill the mice for their snakes, but had no idea that guinea pig breeders used it also.
I would not be able to do it. It is not in my nature to take a life. I can give the go-ahead, and be there, and hold my friend in my arms, but could not do the actual deed. I will gladly pay a vet hundreds of dollars to do so (and with my two beloved horses, it came to hundreds of dollars). But not until I was sure that there was not one last shred of hope that the animal could live a decent life.
I would not be able to do it. It is not in my nature to take a life. I can give the go-ahead, and be there, and hold my friend in my arms, but could not do the actual deed. I will gladly pay a vet hundreds of dollars to do so (and with my two beloved horses, it came to hundreds of dollars). But not until I was sure that there was not one last shred of hope that the animal could live a decent life.
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