The Recent 'murder' At Crufts .......

[wolf63]

The toxicology results are back for the dog who died after a trip to Crufts.

http://news.sky.com/story/1446234/jagger-the-dog-not-poisoned-at-crufts

It was a really strange incident and I admit that I had considered that the owners had some sort of Insurance scam planned.

Jagger was a beautiful dog and he was poisoned ~ that is all that I know for certain.

[Retrochic]

The Autopsy shows the poison used would have had an almost immediate effect. If this is true then the blame has to lie nearer to Home,however abhorrent that may seem.

[mastercraft]

Insurance scam? I doubt.
He was a prize winning dog that had more to offer alive ... than dead.

[askyourgran]

On The News at Six they said that it must have been done in Belgium. The poison would have been digested and taken effect before then. Lovely dog what a shame. It seems plausible that it could have been done as an insurance scam.

[wolf63]

I don't know anything about shows and show dogs mastercraft. I believe that money is made in breeding.

It is a shame that Crufts had its name blackened ( or am I not allowed to say that any more)?

[askyourgran]

I think that's OK wolf, if you had said coloured maybe not.

[mastercraft]

Quite right Wolf, thousands of £'s can be made from a Cruft's Champion.

[mastercraft]

And I think 'Tarnished' would have been more appropriate!

[Retrochic]

There will be a back story here. People are presuming the dog had a future career breeding -maybe he was firing blanks?

[lankeela]

Laughing my socks off at people who think breeding show dogs is a money making game! Do you know how much the Best In Show at Crufts gets in prize money (best of over 21,000 dogs) - £100 YES £100 not thousands. It costs us a fortune to qualify, (around £25 per class to enter, plus fuel and accommodation if the show is miles away which most are, plus food and drinks). Crufts itself costs £25 to enter, plus £10 to park and that's without the extra costs of getting there and feeding yourself. Judging starts at 8 am in some breeds and we are not allowed to leave till 4 pm. Even if you win your class you don't get any prize money, you get a rosette if you are in the first three and a card if you are 4th or 5th. If you breed responsibly and do all the health testing it can cost you thousands to raise a decent litter, by the time you have paid a stud fee, had health tests done on the parents/puppies and reared them with good food, registering, microchipping, and all that goes with it. Yet people go and buy an unregistered pup from the internet for a few hundred quid and then blame breeders when it has health issues. A colleague has got a Staffie, I warned him to get one from health tested parents but this one was cheap from a mate and he said the mother was ok. Now its having seizures and costing him a fortune at the vet because the parents were not tested for L2-HGA which would have shown them the puppies could be affected. As for poor Jagger, it seems he picked something up on a walk back home in Belgium yet Crufts was plastered all over the tabloid headlines without any proof and if anyone had any idea of a dog's digestive system they would know it only takes about six hours to digest food, so no way could it have been poisoned on the Thursday at Crufts and then taken ill on the Saturday.