I just read today on another forum that a girl who has a "rescued" petstore
GP (she bought it but it was an owner dump at the petshop) is now having medical problems. The
GP can no longer use it's back legs (it's not scurvy).
This girl managed to talk to the "great local breeder" who bred this
GP. The breeder told her that is common and fairly normal for elderly
GP to lose function in their back legs.
Right, "common and normal". Seems to me that this "great local breeder" is breeding animals with genetic defects that cause spinal deterioration. There is nothing "common and normal" about an elderly
GP losing the use of it's back legs.