Everyone Is Fighting Over This Fancy Dog's Sperm
LatestBeau Lemon, the cranky little cotton ball pictured above, was neutered in July 2013 and a bunch of midwesterners are losing their minds.
Beau (née Victoire Gerie’s No Lemon Gemstone) is fairly accomplished — when he retired in 2012 at the ripe old age of three, he had risen through the ranks of professional dog showing to become the second best bichon frisé in the United States. That said, his owners Mary and John Wangsness (who had purchased the dog for $3,000 in 2009) envisioned at least seven years of letting him sleep around and produce more potentially award-winning, undoubtedly money-earning puppies.
However, a lawsuit filed in Ramsey County, Minnesota alleges that those dreams were dashed when Beau’s breeder Vickie Halsted had the dog secretly fixed in an act of “vengeance” after the Wangsnesses attempted to breed the dog twice without Halstead’s permission.
Halstead’s attorney claims that she had to “rescue” Beau from the Wangsnesses’ neglect, which had led to “dental disease, a low sperm count, impacted anal glands, and a matted and unhealthy coat.”