There are the good and the bad in every profession. I have worked with human physicians for many years and have met some excellent and very professional doctors. I have also met some of the most irresponsible physicians you would never want to meet. Then there all different degrees of good and bad in between those two types.
I have also had pets all my life and have dealt with a number of vets. I have met many who care little where their customers get their dogs or what they do with them. They just take care of the pet as they see fit and give the owner the bill.
When my Maltese was a puppy she contracted Polymetra when she went into her first heat at 6 months. She became very ill and almost died. My vet at the time did manage to bring her through it. When I finally picked her up to bring her home he told me that I should get her spayed as soon as she was ready as she was way too small for breeding and it would not be worth taking the chance of a reoccurrence of the Polymetra. I had never intended to breed her I had just not thought about such a little puppy going into heat and kind of lost track of time. She was my very first toy breed dog.
Puppy mills that sell a majority of puppies to pet stores, brokers and backyard breeders have to have a vet to stay in business. Puppy mills have to have someone to sign the health certificates to ship those poor babies out. In order to ship these pups between states (in trucks) they have to have a signed health certificate. It's sad to say that there are more than enough vets that are ready to take the money from this type of breeder despite the fact that the pups are too young/small and certainly not healthy. I have heard from some sources that many just give the mill owner signed certificates that the mill fills in themselves. I have asked pet store employees how old particular puppies were (they usually give a vague answer) and so I have had them get out the paper work that showed they were just 6 weeks old and yet they had been born on the other side of the country. I wonder how many puppies die in those trucks on the way to the pet store? If you ever get a chance to sneak a peak in the back room of one of those pet stores you will see the cages where puppies are kept until they are fit enough to be put out in the for sale cages. Most of these stores give the pups shots right there on site and worm them as well. Now that's professional. No wonder so many people end up with very sick puppies after they get them home. |