Are you sure it’s Appleridge in Florida? There is an Appleridge in Georgia. PM for details

 

Run and run fast!!

feel free to email me

goosinggus@bell.net

 

I would look elsewhere.

 

Agree, would not buy a dog from them.

 

Why? I understand they used to be up in Canada also.

 

Yowza, that's a lot of dogs

 

This is my beautiful Floyd.
Isn't he gorgeous?
His parents were gorgeous, robust and healthy looking dogs, breeder was nice, seemed honest and oh how she loved her dogs. His parents loved kids, how could we go wrong?
Health testing was done, found out after that some titles were false. She did a repeat breeding after being told my dog had EPI.

Let me tell you how wrong we went and what I learned and not only at my expense, but worse ... my kids expense.

Floyd was a typical puppy, he was busy and full of energy, moving landshark like most GSD puppies. By 6 months I knew something wasn't right. He became thin, dull coat and had cow Pattie stools. After much testing, he was diagnosed with Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency, a far too common condition within the breed. He couldn't digest his food and was essentially starving to death. Thankfully there is treatment for this but not always cheaply. The enzymes, the B12 shots the ongoing SIBO but oh how we loved this dog. Then came this weirdly fused adult tooth, breeder had no idea what or why but it didn't seem to be a problem so no worries. As he approached 1 year came the reactivity to dogs which quickly became unmanageable dog aggression. At 105lbs he was not easy to control when dogs were around. With this came weak nerves and no ability to recover from anything negative. The broom fell over and scared him, he was forever terrified of the broom. Then the ear infections and allergies kicked in, he could strip all the fur off both back legs and belly in hours only to leave red oozing skin. After putting drops in his ears one evening, he would never walk into the room where those terrible ear drops got him. Fireworks, African american people, the list goes on forever but oh how we still loved this dog, afterall he came from 2 beautiful dogs that appeared very healthy and normal. By now the breeder no longer accepted calls from me. All I wanted was to learn how to manage his weak nerves and give him some comfort. We lived for a few years with constant management and never-ending vet bills but we loved this dog and that's what you do right? Remember that weird tooth? It turned into an epulis growth in his mouth, we had it removed by laser, refusing the recommended treatment of surgically removing most of his upper jaw on the affected side afterall he was 6 yrs old now. He developed a spinal injury from jumping up on our bed, simple task for a working breed right? During his 6th year, we lost our beautiful boy to Hemangiosarcoma.

I still remember that evening like it was yesterday. I remember my son screaming "please save him mom, you can't let him die". We had him euthanized that evening and I will never forget that I failed my kids. They cried themselves to sleep, I cried myself to sleep but it was the guilt that killed me. I was forever a part of encouraging and supporting irresponsible breeding and a lifetime of pain for some dogs and their families.

I failed my family and I became someone who helped to encourage a byb who was doing a massive disservice to the breed. This breed is disappearing because of indiscriminate and irresponsible breeding.

Please support those breeders working hard to preserve this breed.


Cathy