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“To my clients and friends, I came home from town today with a load of dog food to find my kennels in flames. I have lost all my dogs and puppies except for Candy that somehow pushed her way through the gate,” he wrote. “You can imagine how devastating this is. My dogs were my life.”
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Kraemer, who specialized in breeding Labrador Retrievers, told Fox News on Tuesday that 27 full-grown dogs died and the rest of the animals killed in the fire were puppies.
“On our way back, just as I began to pull into my road — which is about 2 miles to my house from the beginning — I got a call. It was one of my neighbors telling me that my kennels were on fire,” he said. “I rushed home. When I got there, they were engulfed in flames. And, by that time, every animal had perished.”
One of the female dogs, Candy, had escaped the flames in time by pushing her way through the gate.
“I guess her adrenaline gave her superpowers and she pushed her way out,” Kraemer said.
Unfortunately, Kraemer told WAVE3 News that Candy had lost “every single one” of her litter.
The breeder, who has been working in the field for 25 years, said that attempts made by neighbors to save the dogs were fruitless and that — although he thinks they called the crime — he could “plainly see it was too late for anything.”
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Kraemer told WDRB that he hasn’t been told how the fire officially started, but said Tuesday that he believes it was electrical.
He noted that the weathera> had chilled and that each doghouse of puppies had a heat lamp to keep them warm. < by a former client and exceeded its $5,000 goal.
In a separate Facebook post a day later, Kraemer said he was overwhelmed by the support he’s received.
“So, I’m blown away. I have people calling offering their dogs to breed and help, you know, replenish my stock,” he said. “And, it’s been mindblowing.”
