Dachshunds

Milwaukee WI

Description

All Dachshunds have been deliberately bred to have a severe deformity called chondrodysplasia (dwarfed legs, long back) which GUARANTEE orthopedic problems are inevitable. Of all breeds, they are at the highest risk for IVDD, Intervertebral Disk Disease, which causes pain, lameness and eventual total hindquarter paralysis. Surgery to attempt to correct this congenital defect runs about $5,000. Otherwise, they’ll have to spend their short, miserable life confined to a special wheelchair. Please consider these facts before you decide to buy one, which encourages the heartless breeder profiteers to keep on producing them.