I feel like the original poster has a right to be frustrated. You put so much trust into placing a puppy. To have it come back the next day-week-month must be exasperating.
The positive side of this is that you and that puppy dodged a bullet. Better to find out now and be able to communicate and have the puppy back in your arms than to have them change their minds (for whatever reason) 6 mos from now and just figure they'd place the pup on their own, drop it at a shelter or give it to a rescue.
It was your open door policy that facilitated getting that puppy back!
Please consider that before you alienate clients by posting them on a bad list or in a public forum. I just worry that you could end up with a reputation for embarassing families when things go wrong. If that gets around, and heaven forbid, somebody really and truly does need to rehome one of your babies, it may make them think twice about coming to you and they may just rehome the dog on their own. That would be a shame and probably not what you want since you care so much.
Now, for somebody that just wants to lock in a sale, having a reputation for posting owners with issues is a great idea...it pretty much guarantees they will never come back to you for any kind of support and you will never have to deal with the time, money and effort of rehoming an animal of your breeding.
I guess it's just a matter of the lessor of the two evils and what the breeder's agenda is to begin with. (I mean that in a generic sense and not specifically toward the original poster.) |