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Puppy Mill Puppy (small rant)

Anonymous

Posted : 2/15/2008 5:06:44 PM

So a few weeks ago I get an email from a girl I used to work with about how she wants a puppy, specifically a yorkie. Immediately I inform her of puppy mills and back yard breeders and to adopt rather than do what I had a bad feeling her boyfriend was going to do. Her reply was that she'd never find a yorkie at a shelter because they are "in such high demand". I sent her links to yorkie rescues and such in hopes to sway her. Never heard about it again, got a text I couldnt open a week ago from her and just deleted it. Today, she called me and we were talking about other things and she asked if I got her text. I said no I couldnt open it, what was it. She said well I got a puppy. Ugh! ok, what kind I ask. She says "a yorkie poo. He's a bit older, 5 months old but he was only $350. I think he came from a puppymill though because we went there (there meaning Ohio where puppymills are prevalent) and I heard all these dogs barking from the barn, but he was just soo cute I couldnt not take him home" Then she said "oh and I took him to the vet and his knee pops out sometimes, and the vet said I may need to have surgery for him in the future". Ugh! She also said he freaks out in a crate (big surprise), so after I got over the whole shock and realized its her puppy now, I gave her some advice on crate training and potty training in hopes this time she listens to me.

rwbeagles

Posted : 2/15/2008 5:08:54 PM

yyyep..that's a forehead slap moment if ever I heard one!

Kudos to you for trying to help before and now, after...it's all we can do most times!

Anonymous

Posted : 2/15/2008 5:12:47 PM

Yeah I try..but some people just don't listen. sigh...what can ya do...

DumDog

Posted : 2/15/2008 8:34:30 PM

what can you do?

bop them on the head and tell'm i told ya so....

a high school friend of mine - i think i posted about it here a while back - was going to get his girlfriend of two months a mini english bulldog because she thought they were cute..... i wasnt nice. i reamed him out, ripped him a new one, dumped all kinds of info all over him.. if he had been sitting in front of me i would have grabbed him by the nape of the neck and shook him..... ESPECIALLY when he said something so stupid as "its not my problem. it'll be HER dog!" RARGH!!!

in the end they adopted a perfectly normal english bulldog - not a mini from a local breeder as they were going to do originally. - Big Smile

TheDogHouseBCMPD

Posted : 2/15/2008 10:03:44 PM

jennyx0023
Yeah I try..but some people just don't listen. sigh...what can ya do...

Yep, I hear ya....my brother is one of those people, I just vented about him in the, Dog he doesn't need, thread.

I think the only thing you can do at this point is help her do the best she can with this dog, since it's there now.

BlackLabbie

Posted : 2/15/2008 10:20:41 PM

This happend to me recently too. We adopted Apollo in March 2007. He was neglected and abused, so no surprise he came with some baggage; not being housebroken, no obedience...etc. My friend's family wanted to get a Lab around the same time I got mine. I told them to adopt, rescue, whatever...they didn't listen. They didn't want one like mine because "there was a reason he was in a shelter...he probably wasn't a good dog" (yes thats what they said to me!!!). I POURED information on them; shelters, rescues, pounds, even breeders that had "retired" dogs that needed homes. No- they wanted a "silver lab" aka: Lab/ Weim aka: Mutt, and they weren't in shelters because they're a "high end breed". OMFG, I wanted to snap after hearing that. I told them what they were getting into- trouble. Nobody listened. Now they have a $2000 mutt, that is EXTREMELY high strung, nippy, doesn't like strangers or new people, isn't house broken- he goes in the crate they have him in all the time and it's proper size and he is neutered. Apollo on the other hand did take about 10months of consitant training, but he is a dream, no problems here Angel I think it all boils down to karma... Wink