I want a puppy - hubby doesn't.... can I change his mind? EDIT: HE HAS!!

mrcol1000

blue_monkey wrote: »

No we did not get her BECAUSE she was reduced we bought her regardless but she was reduced and hubby thinks this was because she was too old. This is why I made the comment - I suppose I did not have to as it was irrelvant.

Read properly before making comments like that.

She is also wonderful so I am past giving a toss what YOU think. I felt guilty enough after we got her because of being told what you should and should not do when buying a puppy. But we have made the right choice but had she got to old then chances are she would have been down the local RSPCA home also waiting to be rehomed - and they would not have let her come to us then because we have children. She we gave her the chance when we did!

I think it cheapens the value of a dogs life when you start buying them from shops half price. Its a lot of hard work getting a dog from a decent rescue centre for a reason.

myothercarisaferrari

http://www.crueltyexposed.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=39

I have seen inside a puppy farm and its soul destroying.

Please make sure the vet checks her over thorughly.

mrcol1000

blue_monkey wrote: »

I do understand that but what would happen to the dog had we not got her....? What when she got to old to be there?


But I can understand what you are getting at. It also did get me thinking though, what when the puppies are here, they are either sold, stuck in rehoming centre or PTS. What is the best option? Homing regardless or PTS? Surely if people chose not to buy them they would be PTS in the end and that is not fair on the puppies either.
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But by people buying the puppies from this shop they are encouraging them to sell them. If no-one brought the puppies from the shop then they wouldn't bother selling them. Thats the simple fact. So by buying this puppy your encouraging them to sell puppies and to reduce them if they can not shift them as its a way to clear the stock.

Kimberley

myothercarisaferrari wrote: »

http://www.crueltyexposed.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=39

I have seen inside a puppy farm and its soul destroying.

Please make sure the vet checks her over thorughly.

Thats very inportant with puppy farm/pet shop animals, most Vets do free kitten and puppy health checks so it's well worth getting her checked over.

myothercarisaferrari

Unfortuantely I think this story is an example of the 'I want it NOW' culture

mrcol1000

Buying half price dogs, getting rid of a dog because it looked at your baby funny and getting a new one. I think it says a lot about the kind of people who post on here.

astonsmummy

mrcol1000 wrote: »

Buying half price dogs, getting rid of a dog because it looked at your baby funny and getting a new one. I think it says a lot about the kind of people who post on here.

Oh shut up you fool :rolleyes:

myothercarisaferrari

Don't like hearing the truth?

Ashtonsmummy, until you have walked in the shoes of someone who volunteers (who doesnt get paid) then you have no right to criticise.

We are the ones who pick up the pieces when you 'get rid' of your dog. We are the ones who tireslessly spend evenings, weekends and any spare time fundraising for rescues that are full to bursting with the throwaway dogs.

We are the ones that go to these puppy farms to pick up the mothers who have never seen the outside, don't know what a lead is and don't know what cuddles and affection are because they have been used as breeding machines because the likes of you buy their puppies.

So whilst you don't like my opinion and the others', don't you dare tell them to shut up. Their voice needs to be heard and even if you don't care, there will be someone reading this who does.

astonsmummy

myothercarisaferrari wrote: »

Don't like hearing the truth?

Ashtonsmummy, until you have walked in the shoes of someone who volunteers (who doesnt get paid) then you have no right to criticise.

We are the ones who pick up the pieces when you 'get rid' of your dog. We are the ones who tireslessly spend evenings, weekends and any spare time fundraising for rescues that are full to bursting with the throwaway dogs.

We are the ones that go to these puppy farms to pick up the mothers who have never seen the outside, don't know what a lead is and don't know what cuddles and affection are because they have been used as breeding machines because the likes of you buy their puppies.

So whilst you don't like my opinion and the others', don't you dare tell them to shut up. Their voice needs to be heard and even if you don't care, there will be someone reading this who does.

No because you are being overdramatic, I did not 'get rid' of my dog because she looked at my baby funny.
I REHOMED her with someone I knew and trusted, so no you do not have to pick up the peices of anything I have done.
I could of sent her to a Home, but I didn't want to.

So read what I have writted again and then tell me that anything I have done involves rescue centres? no it doesn't.

So in future get your facts straight before you get on your high horse :rolleyes:

So when you have walked in MY shoes, dont you dare critisie me!

blue_monkey_2

Blah blah blah. She might well have come from a puppy farm (but she didn't) because she clearly had been around people, she was used to car travel and being outside and being on a lead. Any idiot could see that otherwise she would have been cowering in a heap in the corner.

And no for the last time, we did not buy her because she was 'cheap' we bought her because she was the breed that we had spent hours looking for but had so far not been able to find locally. Nor did a shelter have anything suitable. My husband actually fell in love with her as she is the spitting image of his last dog - even down to the tuft of white on her chin. Funny how things pan out really. Any other dog we would have left there. Did you actually not bother reading the post I made or just someone else's offhand comment that they did not bother reading either? But me not buying one is not going to stop the breeders they'll just dump them at a shelter or chuck them in the river to drown when they cannot sell them. That's a fact.

Thanks for your concern but she has been to a vet thanks - in case you did not bother reading past the rage of where I got her from she was actually registered at a vet's had been checked and had a vet card from a big vet chain in this area. I got her on Saturday she was down the vets on Monday for a health check. In fact she has been several times. The first vet did not check her properly (in my opinion) so I took her to the vets my other animals are registered at and got her checked again OMG. I even paid for it again. And yes, here's a surprise, she is just fine. So she she has been checked. Twice. And she has been chipped. And she has insurance. And she has her injections. Tonight she starts training school. Damn irresponsible owners.

But hey, I could have just lied a few pages back and said that I got her from a shelter and then you'd be telling me how wonderful she is and how lovely I was. Funny that.

As I said, my friends puppy, from a well known Animal Shelter. It was dumped on the Shelter doorstep and it had Parvo, they could also have come from a puppy farm and dumped because they would have cost too much to treat, which ios more likely the case. Funny also that said 'big' shelter also told my friend the puppy was 10 weeks old wen she collected her however when she took her to the vets she noticed that the DOB on the card she was given meant that the puppy was actually on 7 weeks old and she had already had her for 4 days. Isn't that too young for a puppy to be rehomed??

It is funny that none of you have no idea how the dogs and puppies in shelters got to be there in the first place so by having these shelters on hand for people to dump sick and unwanted farmed puppies on their doorsteps, you are also actively encouraging the practice. it also seems they give the puppies away before they are old enough. It is a funny old world isn't it?

I just know that my girl is going to be happy with us and it is the best thing we have done because I have all the time in the world to give her, and that is really all that matters now as far as I am concerned.

Astonmummy, bet you are glad I posted now. Ha ha!!