From a Kraftwerk / Wane Curry employee - Page 2

I have nothing against Kraftwerk, one of our friends has a nice KW bitch, though a little hectic in her drives for my taste. That being said--------


I just don't think you can properly imprint pups for family living in a kennel situation.  The number of puppies involved just makes it near impossible IMHO.    I know how much time is involved with a litter of pups in order to really socially prepare them. Which is why we have about 1 litter a year (if that).

dito that OKIE AMAZON

Sunsilver, I definitely agree that too many breeders sell strong GSDs to people who aren't really prepared or equipped to deal with them.
Ethically, a breeder shouldn't sell a dog to someone who isn't capable of raising it correctly.

A good breeder helps the buyer select the dog that is appropriate for their home and intended job of the dog.

I think I have heard enough crap coming out of Krapworks to never do busines with them. Sure some people get a nice healthy dog once in awhile but when you pump out that many and sell that many, I would hope at least some were success stories. Any idiot can see he buys and sells dogs, like most of us change our underwear. He clearly has the $ to import some really nice dogs from nice lines, but doesn't know what to do with them besides throw them together. When he is done, up for sale they go. No training goes on, no titling and apparently not alot of health stuff. High dollar Puppy Mill. Somebody with more $ than brains. It's apparently about volume not quality there and if you can't figure that out...I don't know what to tell ya.

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Ok, so I am the ...so called wanna be vet tech kennel manager of Kraftwerk that the previous poster was ranting about. I have been a well respected licensed Veterinary Technician for over 13 years. I have great professional references. Having said that, I will post my personal experience and let you decide. First...the poster deserved to be fired. When I was hired, her attitude was terrible and despite the outbreak of parvo, that was spreading unchecked because ZERO disinfection/isolation measures were in place, she was complained constantly that I was requiring bleach to be used extensively. Her work performance was sub-standard.   Having said that...

I am not a disgruntled ex-employee angry over my discharge. I am angry and disgruntled over Waynes blatant and willful disregard for the treatment and survival of his puppies, as well as his lack of concern for the medical welfare of all his dogs. 

Kraftwerk is an awful kennel, Wayne Curry is a heartless &?)*$@&.  Kraftwerk is nothing more than a high dollar, glorified puppy mill with a nice website and a pretty paint job. The APPEARANCE of being a world class breeder is far more important to Wayne Curry than the actual health and well-being of his dogs and puppies. 

  I was hired specifically with 2 goals

1) Improve disinfection procedures and gain control over the spread of infectious disease (parvo) which had been allowed to move about the kennel unchecked. A puppy recovering from the disease was being inadequately cared for and I beleive he would likely have died without improved medical attention. He was not isolated from other puppies and in fact was being housed in a common area of the office, where people routinely handled him and then went about the kennel business without any disinfection what-so-ever. He was recieving oral antibiotics despite continued vomiting and profuse diarrhea. He was dehydrated and inadequte amounts of SQ fluids were being administered by untrained staff using non-sterile syringes. His diet was completely innapropritae for a puppy recovering from this disease. Instead of a bland diet he was offerred dry or soaked puppy kibble and raw meat. His appetite was poor to non existent.

2) Reduce puppy mortality due to parvo and "fading puppy" syndrome, which had reached very high levels (Wayne himself aknowledged MANY puppies had died, multiple litters affected.)   I immediately implemented infectious disease control guidelines for kennel maintenance and I spent 2 months trying to get the communicable diseases under control. Wayne largely ignored most of these procedures, preferring to disregard quarantine periods for new imports and moving dogs from kennel to kennel without adequate disinfection between. The staff was generally spread very thin by upper-management, and not allowed enough time for proper disinfection procedures. A new import stud was bred to a female within days of arrival (2-3days) without any quaratine at all. Other imports quarantine lasted apx 1-4 days. The most recent outbreak of parvo (April 9) was in a kennel that upper-management/ownership had ordered an employee to divide a litter and place the males in a new kennel that had not been disinfected after the previous occupant. Within a week all the males placed in the new kennel began showing signs of illness. One puppy died, the remaing four I was ordered to treat on-site despite my recommendation for veterinary hospitalization to increase odds of survival. A POSITIVE PARVO test was obtained from an Idexx Snap test provided by a local veterinarian. Two of the puppies were still struggling with diarrhea and one was still vomiting when I was ordered to reduce the tr

APRIL 9, 2009 ?????  DO YOU MEAN JUST WITHIN THIS MONTH???? 

 

Very disturbing. I had parvo on my place in CA in the 80's. I wish I had had somebody like you around to help me got hrough all I HAD TO DO to get rid of it. Fortunatly it only affected one litter, but boy, did things change in my kennel forever after that! From then on all new dogs were separated, quaranteened away from the general population (and each other) till proven to have a clean bill of health. For someone who HAS the facilities to do this right, its simple poor kennel management when the problems are not eradicated in very short order.

God forbid I should have to go through what I did again. I was nervous for years after.

 I STILL want  to know if this insider-poster is stating that the parvo break out continued to this month.  

Yes Indeed. There is an active outbreak of parvo as of April 9, 2009. I have the positive parvo SNAP test to prove it.  I am suspicious that it could be the imported strain. However, that is only my suspicion based on experience with the disease and extensive research trying to get a grip on the conditions at the kennel. To be honest... I will never understand why Wayne did not place more value in what I was offering him. That kennel has a health crisis going on that could cost him his livelyhood and already has costed countless little puppy lives. I was just trying to help him get it under control. From my perspective even if he didn't care about the dogs, you'd think he would care about the economic impact on his business and the possibility of animal cruelty alegations. Litter after litter can't die without somebody eventually noticing. I will be watching to see if I-litter disappears from the web-site... I am concerned for them. There are so many others that I still worry about. I know that Wayne does not want to acknowledge that Parvo is ravaging his kennel, but denial does not make it go away. I also believe that strict and aggressive kennel management practices could eliminate the virus from his kennel. I tried very hard to implement and enforce infectious disease control guidelines as well as isolation/quarantine. I felt the staff was making genuine effort to maintain standards. Wayne, however, became angry with me for asking for improved compliance from him with regards to disinfection of kennels between occupants and Quarantine and Isolation of imports and sick puppies. We also strongly disagreed on the treatment that the infected puppies would recieve. One had already died and I was deeply concerned for the other 4. He was not allowing me to provide the level of care I felt offered the greatest chance for survival out-side a Vet clinic on an IV drip with appropriate supportive therapy, since he declined that option. If only he was more interested in doing the right thing for the dogs, we could have been a great team. Unfortunately, he is simply a business man whose commodity happens to be puppies.

On another note, my daughter and her boyfriend were fired yesterday... simply for knowing me, they were not given a reason. And, they were asked to move out of their rental on the kennel grounds. They moved here from Oregon specifically to help Wayne get through a huge staff loss and that's the thanks they get. Jobless and homeless, because Wayne doesn't like me and doesn't want me to know whats happening at the kennel. Well, I have SEEN enough, no one needs to tell me what goes on there! None of that surprised me however. He has a pattern of this type of employee treatment. I knew when I was discharged that they would be discharged shortly thereafter. And they where... but we'll get through it :-) 

Sound like a guy you want to support?? I'll let you be the judge.