Downvoted. As in, your comment.

Sadly surprising considering other cases where the animal was put down.

The rescue organization even admits that she's a perfectly happy well adjusted dog, from the last link: "[After] what she's been through is amazing that she can be so loving and so affectionate and so friendly to everyone that meets her and high energy like nothing ever happened

god damn can these people seriously not put 2 and 2 together. Sex does not always harm an animal.

Pyometra is deadly and painful, so that could be enough of a reason for euthanasia if it was serious and actually present. That said, however, their blaming it on "lubricant use" is sketchy at best.

First, pyometra is the main reason vets recommend spaying, because it happens suddenly and is first caused by hormone imbalances (Note: paper is behind a paywall, and I have only read the abstract and other corroborating sources). Usually, when a bitch (for example) goes into heat, her uterine lining expands to prepare for pregnancy, and will then retract to normal size. But with too much estrogen, too little progesterone, or messed up responses to either one, the uterine lining can remain engorged and vulnerable to bacterial infection, from bacteria present around the vagina. This leads, eventually, to the whole uterine system swelling with infection and pus and likely her death without treatment (which is usually an emergency spay).

So while the bacterial infection is an important step in the process, it can't reasonably be considered the cause of pyometra: that dubious honor goes to the initial hormone response. But preventing bacterial infections is of importance for unaltered animals for this reason. And while it is true that some lubricants (petroleum jelly and oil-based) slightly increase the risk for infection, they don't cause them so much as mildly increase the odds. And no such data has been shown for water-based or even natural lubricants, which seem to be the recommendations of every guide to interspecies sex I have ever read (though this isn't incontrovertible, obviously).

So, Jordan's statement would have been more accurate if it read that pyometra could have been made slightly more likely to progress more quickly after an initial hormone problem made her susceptible to infection, assuming that oil-based lubricants were used. But that's less sensational than "lube made her sick."

Apparently some folks here knew the zoo that the dog belonged to. seems to be a case of hanging with the wrong crowd and not being careful

Well, we don't. News articles are notoriously poor sources of information, particular for subjects such as this with such dramatic (and more importantly sellable) headlines coming out of the mouths of anti-zoos.

What I can say, and what has been pointed out above is the dog who survived was perfectly alright after according to the worst of the guys opponents. It suggests it was just sex at worst. Considering the animals I've known I am much more likely to believe the animals had fun than not There are other signs which would have been in the story for sure if it had really been abuse. If his bitch didn't have Pyro it is likely he wouldn't have even been found guilty but a dead dog, for whatever reason even if it had nothing to do with the sex, will always carry a jury.