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July 13, 2010 at 6:28 am
A friend of mine is an outside claims adjuster for a national insurance company, & she relates that:
Due to the rush of breeding as many goldens as possible, the breeders aren’t watching the results. In the last year or so, the most dog bite claims aren’t from the usual culprits, the Rottweilers, Dobermans, Pits or German Shepherds.
They’re from Goldens.
July 13, 2010 at 7:39 am
That is scary fascinating, Karen, and I’ve heard the same thing elsewhere.
July 14, 2010 at 8:28 am
In Pa., there has been a big fuss about puppy mills, many of them run on farms and some by Amish and Mennonite farmers.
We got my Yorkie from an Amish farmer, but it was certainly no puppy mill. The dogs and puppies were running free and there were not many of them. In fact, Mama came over to protest–the farmer told us that he was the last of that litter and she didn’t want to see him go.