Article: Going for the jugular.

A Calgary dog breeder's lawsuit illustrates the danger of vets drawing blood from the neck

Engraved on Trudy Kerr's licence plate is the word "Shih Tzu." For the past 25 years she says she has devoted much of her life and half a million dollars to importing dogs and re-establishing an almost-extinct bloodline of the breed which came to the western world from the Peking palace in China. Not only is this line "living history," dog fanciers say, but it is free of the hereditary kidney ailment often found in the Shih Tzu breed. In a statement of claim which Ms. Kerr filed, she alleges her four-year-old female, Yasmine von Dalai (Minnie), was the last female of the ...

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