It is never a good idea to offer animals as an auction item or to just give to a sick child or any child without first checking out the home, making sure the pet is wanted and of course, making sure there is someone willing to take responsibility for the pet. In my experience, a person looking after either a very sick and/or debilitated child or adult, does not have the time or energy to take on a dog or puppy too. It would only work if there is other family members that can and is willing to take on the responsibility for the pet.
As for Petland and people buying from pet stores, often the potential buyer is told the puppies come from loving local breeders. Hogwash! What loving breeder would turn over litters of puppies to someone else to sell and not know where their puppies went, who they were sold too, what kind of situation they may end up living in, are they going to end up as breeding for a puppymill with deplorable living conditions? Yet people fall for it because the store clerk told them.
Pet stores can usually fill the impulse buyer, the buyer who doesn't want to wait for the right puppy, and you can put it on credit cards. |