I thought the same thing and so did my Bichon friends. The breeder of the dog had a signed agreement with the owner that if she ever needed to find another home for the dog, she would be returned to her breeder. The breeder was devestated, but it would have taken a whole lot of money and time to try to sue the family or anything like that. She said she had been so careful to assure that all of the puppies she bred went to good homes and would always have good homes. She also said all she could get from the family was money and that wasn't what she wanted. She wanted good homes for the puppies she bred. It was a very sad thing and it affected a lot of Bichon people. We all wondered what the family would have done if the woman who died had asked that one of her nephews or sisters be buried with her. I worked with a woman who had her mother's dog euthanized when her mother died because she didn't want to take care of the dog. This dog was old, but certainly not dying. It was buried with it's owner, too. |