Puppy in the window
 

I was at the mall yesterday and went into the pet store to get some treats for Rex. Well my plans changed very quickly. a little head shot up and we looked eyes. He’s a japanese chin. The little guy was just laying there in his hard plastic bed with a towel in it and poop all over the floor with no toys to play with. So I had to cuddle him. I asked the guy at the counter if I could see him. 4 months old and the cutest little thing stuck behind a window all day. He just cuddled right up with me stuck his nose right into my neck and I just fell in love and gave my all these little kisses. So THEN I start to ask the question and the answers he kept giving me were pissing me off more and more and I could tell he was getting annoyed . Poor baby I HATE pet stores! I really wanted to take him home with me and give Rex a brother. This is were the get there puppies from. The Hunte Corporation - Where Puppies Come First . i feel like I let the little guy down buy not taking him :(

I fully appreciate what you're saying and that's why I keep away from pet stores. Besides if we buy from them, we are only encouraging puppy mills. So sad though for the poor little pup.:(

I know it's hard, but we just can't support these places. If we keep buying from them they will keep producing. There is only one way to stop them. It's all about the dollar for these people. So yes you could have saved one, but by not buying him you may save more.

wow that website has the best worded BS ive ever read

I know right! this is why people think puppy stores are OK. if i could i would close everyone of them down

I understand what your saying...both my mutt and yorkie are rescues...but if those pups are not bought...what then...it is a definate catch-22:rolleyes: for those of us who love dogs...sigh...Humane society, SICSA, and Animal Resource Center will always be where my babies come from...Unless there is ever another Fizz running the streets. I am still appalled that no one ever called and claimed this little sweetie. I will love him for a long time. (I repeat!!! microchip and tag your dog!!!) Mine are.

pet stores where i live dont sell dogs anymore
One day I walked into our local pet store (in the mall of all places )
and was walking past the dogs as usual and passed a " designer dog" a cocker/bischon mix ugly little white blob so i passed her by then something in my brain connected to what my eyes had read and i walked back. Her 900 dollar price tag had been crossed off and below it was written Free. So i stopped an employee and asked why she was free she responded She was an owner return because she was DEAF!! the owner brought her back cause the puppy was DEAF can you imagine!! I looked to my left and these HORRIBLE looking people were pointing at her and talking softly i stepped a little closer to them and heard them say..i wonder how she'll fair on the farm with the tractors OMG a deaf dog on a farm! Well all my dogs are sign lang. trained anyhow so i yanked out my phone and called my sister ASAP she said GET HER!!!!! I walked up to the sales lady and said I want that dog she looked at me like i was NUTS and staryted to talk to me all slow like i was stupid i was 22ish at the time. I was like lady i realize the dog is deaf ide like to take her home NOW please. well after a long car ride home where she got sick in the car drooled ALL OVER my leg was scared out of her mind of EVERYONE but me guess what IF THAT DOGS DEAF IM THE QUEEN OF ENGLAD shes not deaf shes just a PUPPY for gods sake she dosent listen DUH that was about three years ago the pet store was shut down due to " economy " and our little white blob ( Rosey ) is not deaf and as cute as can be. shes my nieces dog now but she still gets extra excited when she sees me. She knows i saved her that day

Awww....what a great story! Do you have a pic of this "little white blob" that you rescued? I'll bet she's just adorable:D

lol shes a giant white blob now i swear that girl weighs 20 lbs no i dont have one ill have to get a picture of her and my nephews lab Raven so i can post my colored clan

OMG! what a wonderful story! you are that dogs angel!

exactly! why do these poor dogs have to suffer? humans are SO cruel :( i will never understand how someone could hurt any kind of animal just for money

Look for feed stores in your area. They have all the food, and treats you'd want, but they don't have the pups. I wouldn't be able to stand it if I had to walk into a pet store and not wonder what fate awaits the pups in the windows. What's worse, I'll never stop thinking of their poor moms and dads that are used over and over as baby making machines. Even if you buy treats and clothes, you're still supporting these kinds of businesses. They don't deserve any of your hard earned money!

Like I said...a catch-22. But Like I also said...mine will always be from the "pound" or a rescue...Loved the story of the "blob" can't wait for a picture

The feed stores around here all sell puppies. Went into one some time ago not realizing what I would see. It was horrible. Large puppies in one wire pen and small ones in another. The tiny, tiny small ones were being picked on in the small pen and it was horrible.:(:(:( Our daughter and I both walked out of there crying. ~Joanne~

OH NO!! I said feed store because of where I get Kaji's food. They don't even sell goldfish there. They have had adoption events where they had kittens and cats in kennels but that's the only time I've seen animals there other than the ones that walk in with their families.

I found this poem a while back and its so sad but somehow we have to stop the cycle. I cant and wont step foot in any store that sells puppies. I have adopted a female that spent 7 years in a cage breeding and it breaks my heart to think about the life she led. The breeder told me she had never once left her cage...never been to a vet...never been held...just bred :(

PET STORE PUPPY

I'm a little puppy, so cuddly, sweet and small
I live inside a cage, you see at a Pet Store in the mall.

I'm not an only puppy, my sisters are all here.
My brothers, too, except for onewho died 'cause he was scared.

It's lonely here at nighttime when all the lights go dark,
We tremble in our cages and we whimper and we bark.

But no one comes to hold us or pet our fears away.
We sit all night in terror til the store opens the next day.

We don't remember mama, left so far behind.
she did the best she could for us til Man said "It is time"

He crammed us all in cages too small for us you see.
We rode for hours; we could not help but lay in poop and pee.

And now we sit in a pet store where kids come to taunt and squeeze.
They do not hear our whimpers or understand our pleas.

We're miserable and it's scary here; we all would rather die.
But since we don't we do our best to run away and hide.

I know you think my story too sad to leave me be.
You want to take me home with you, a happy little puppy.

But please, though it is fearful to live here against our will.
If you take me that leaves a spot another pup will fill.

You CAN stop our suffering but NOT by taking us home.
You must be strong and leave us here, unsold and all alone.

For if you do not take me, then another pup won't come.
And maybe he will not be shipped so far away from home.

Though some of us may not survive the cycle 'ere it falls.
If we DON'T sell, they will NOT need more puppies in these halls.

And if they need NO puppies, then the Man will NOT bring more.
Eventually, it CAN all STOP! You CAN close the door.

So when you see a puppy face so sad and sweet and small.
In a cage at a pet store at your neighborhood shopping mall.

The best thing you can do for him is leave him sitting there.
That is the best way you can tell all dogs how much you care.

- Author Unknown

When I look at a puppy in a pet store, I can't get all the images of the breeder dogs and the horrible abuse done to them out of my mind. The sickening stories of the bad health, neglect and emotionally wrecked dogs breaks my heart.

What the pet stores do with the puppies that aren't selling well is them same as Kohl's does with blouses that aren't selling, lower the price until they get sold. They will go below cost. But they will also try to re-coop as much profit or cost as they can, first.

It is a catch-22.

What happens is, incoming logic, the stock doesn't sell, they have to reduce the price of the dog to get rid of it as it's costing more money than making. This reduces demand for puppies and if there's no demand, there's no sense in pumping out hundreds in a puppy mill. DURR.

It's a catch 22... you save the life of one puppy only to have it replaced by another who needs saving... its horrible:(

What happens to the replacement dog's mom who needs to be rebred because the pet store needs to re-order puppies? And what happens to her puppies?

Rude and overly cocky much?

Might want to remove that "DURR". Unless you're 12, that has no place while addressing a question another member is asking.

That is uncalled for to the poster you are addressing. Who comes onto a forum with such an attitude like that? Geez!


I'm a little appalled right now.

that poem :cry:

LOL, you should see her other posts. And to think some of us have been called rude. :rolleyes:

Agree. I want to print out 100s of copies and give them out to people that go into that ghetto pet store in the Orange mall.

haha really?

Gosh, I had to keep hitting the "edit" button to censor what I was saying because I couldn't really believe that and I didn't want to, well.. you know, break any rules......but I guess I'm out of the loop because I haven't seen anything she's ever said before.

At least now I know to be on guard. ;)

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/my-...ml#post3113381

Not really THAT bad, but the tone, really, I mean come on! With only 7 posts, it's not so daunting to look at their previous posts.

Yeah, that's a troll.

No doubt in my mind. That person knows exactly which buttons to push to get a reaction. I hate that on every forum I go on, it always seems to work with the majority of people too. Hopefully this person will get bored and move on. The "Heinz 57" comment. Yeah, come on...as if that were even remotely serious? It was meant to be "clever" and make people angry. Oyyyy.

can you edit still? we're not allowed to say "the word"