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pet store, please no drama A close family member of mine made an impulse purchse, a silky terrier. I am so dissapointed becasue I've sent them so much literature on not doing so. Well any advice on what to prepare this family member for as far as health problems that can go wrong? I just feel like I failed them because they know how I feel about this and I have a rescue yorkie. I almost didn't talk to them again because i was just so sorry they did this knowing the backrounds. The pet store person told her how they are "local" breeders blah blah blah that whole thing they tell u to purchase. |
I'd leave it alone, & only offer advice IF there are health problems in the future. |
I agree, leave it be . . . family is family and we all make not so great decissions at times. Absolutely give her advise if there are any health problems. My oldest is (6)from a pet store, I didn't know any better, he has CT, my youngest (4) is from a local ameture breeder and has been just fine. My next will be a rescue. |
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I think u are right, I have to leave it alone because I didn't handle it so kindly and now I regret the things I've said. I am pretty sure in the future she will rescue now. |
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You certainly did your best to try to educate your family member on why it is a bad idea to buy a puppy from a pet shop. She will realize soon enough when she gets the papers that her puppy didn't come from a local breeder. If she asks for your opinion, you can stress the importance of getting a bile acids test and having a savings account for vet bills, but she may not listen. It's so frustrating when you try to save people from heartache and big vet bills and they don't listen. |
Just be a friend, and if, (and more than likely "when") their puppy begins having problems, be there to support her. I have been in the same situation, with a neighbor. No matter how much I have explained that you cannot "rescue" these puppies, she still feels sorry for them, and buys them. Their argument is that their dogs have never had health issues. They are the exception to the rule. She cannot seem to get it in her head, that as soon, as she "rescues' one, another one is brought into replace the puppy. I've tried explaining to her about the life of the puppies mother, to no avail. The only way these puppies can be "rescued" is if the pet store was forced to turn all of them over to a Rescue Organization, and the millers did not make their money. Sheila |
Sometimes you have to learn from your own experiences like I did. Here's a post related to my petstore purchase LINK |
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Pet stores and puppy mills are an important issue and its frustrating when you tell someone but then they turn around and support the problem. |
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All we can ever do is try to educate people about Puppy mills and Pet stores....its really up to them on what action they choose to take. If problems do occur with her puppy be her support system, sometimes is a hard lesson learned.:( |
I have a silky terrier,hopefully they will be lucky and get a healthy one, I got mine from a good breeder and she is perfect so far at 10 months old.. they are a sturdy breed. All you can do now is hope that they learn about puppy mills and such.. but I have to say that I understand the impulse..:eek:..Because I KNOW better and I still melt when I walk by the puppy store...:( hugs, Carmen in nj |
Thor was a pet store puppy (former owner purchased him) and he's been perfectly healthy so far. He even has bite inhibition. :) You did everything you could. I will keep my fingers crossed that this dog turns out happy and healthy. |
The trouble is, people walk into these stores and see a little pup and just want to release it from the place. I can kinda understand it, but am glad that ive always rescued older doggies. |
Not ALL pet store puppies get sick, so it's not like a death sentence. And those puppies need homes, too. |
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This is the problem! If people decide that they will "save" a pet shop puppy, the pet shops will ALWAYS put another puppy in the other ones place. No not every single puppy is sick that comes from a pet store, but the fact is, the majority IS! I think its a safe consideration to believe that it is a possibility. |
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This is for those of you who have never seen this: Thanks from Your Local Pet Store Owner Thank you so much for buying a puppy from my pet store. Your business is important to me. After all, selling puppies is how I make my living. Every person deserves to make a living, don't they? I've gotta tell you, the pet store business is a tough one. With live merchandise you have all these extra rules and regulations the do gooders forced on us. Well they didn't make me do anything different, except now I gotta fill out a lot more paperwork. But is worth it. Puppies and kittens are important to my business and there are plenty of buyers out there. Some people are trying to make out like pet stores are evil or something. I always get a big snicker from the sanctimonious twits who talk bad about pet shops but are always coming into my store to see the "poor puppies." They just can't seem to stop themselves. And they almost never leave without buying something. Having puppies in the store is an important part of selling the other merchandise. I try to put the puppies where people can see them as they walk by the store. That draws them in. I can make money without even selling the puppies. I don't see why selling puppies in my pet store is any worse than raising any other kind of livestock. At least most of my puppies live longer than eight weeks! I've heard that most pet store puppies live one or two years and some much longer, eight or ten years! Much longer than chickens. I treat my puppies very well while they are here. And I use approved methods for disposing of the unsalable ones. I care about these puppies and don't want them to suffer, you know. Do I support "puppy lemon laws"? Well they are a bit of nuisance but they don't really affect my business. It's not like a guarantee on a toaster you know. People get attached. They don't want to return the puppy. Anyway contagious disease isn't a big problem. If I get something really contagious like Parvo I take quick action. All the puppies in the store are put down right away. Everything is disinfected and a new supply of puppies brought in. Often I have to fill the empty space with puppies from another breeder but quick action limits my costs and means I won't end up on the hook for a lot of vet bills. As for other kinds of disease like hip dysplasia and such well frankly it just isn't a big concern. Most of this stuff doesn't show up for a long time. And the legislation doesn't cover it because it can happen even to the hobby breeder. Someone once asked me why I didn't check for genetic disease. It was all I could do not to call the person an idiot! Why should I check for genetic disease? It's expensive and almost no one ever asks so obviously they don't care. And anyway I give a six month guarantee. Pretty generous! Not that I've ever had to pay off or anything. I have had a couple people complain but I always make sure to carefully explain that the best thing to do for their poor suffering puppy is to "put it to sleep." Most people will take the puppy away and not bother me any more about it. Any one who walks into my store and wants to know about the health of my puppies I just tell them that they are very healthy! Of course if they want to know about genetic diseases I have to use a different strategy. First I try to explain that its always the fault of the owner if a dog gets something like patellar luxation or hip dysplasia. If they get nasty or something I ask them if they really want to buy a dog from a hobby breeder? I'm a professional, I make my living off of dogs. I breed lots and lots of puppies. I sell most of them. After all its very hard to resist that cute little puppy in the cage. It's very simple. Every time someone buys a puppy I make at least $100, quite a bit more if they buy the puppy when its little. Yeah, puppies are cute, but you can't afford to get too sentimental. Puppy selling is a business and if you don't treat it as such then you can't stay in the game. It's all about cost/risk/benefit. If you lose sight of that you better get out of the business, just sell supplies or something. Despite what everyone says there is a large market out there for pet store puppies. There is absolutely no need to waste good money of hip tests and other such crap. The truth is simple. Even when people know better the puppies are so cute that they just can't help themselves so they buy them. Heee hee Pretty cool. It doesn't look good to have lots of empty cages so I make sure I always have puppies on the way. Sometimes I get a bit of a scare, though. Like last year. There was a lot a bad press about pet stores and all of the sudden no one was buying. Well of course if I'm not selling the ones in the store its pretty stupid to be breeding more, so I told my staff to hold back a bit. I was afraid for a short time that I was going to actually have to stop breeding entirely. No point in breeding if you aren't selling. Fortunately as the puppies that we had for sale got older some of those do gooder types started to get worried. I made sure my staff played off on this. They were told that if anyone asked what happened to the unsold puppies that they should just look real sad and say that they were "taken care of." I liked that. A real noncommittal answer and the absolute truth too! I told the staff not to use a larger cage too, that would make the puppies look bigger and sadder. So of course the puppies were "rescued" from my shop. I got enough money to cover the costs of keeping them, a small profit, and the scare was over. Back to breeding. As long as there are buyers I'm going to keep raising puppies and selling them in my store. No reason not to. |
huh? was that last post a joke? |
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OH MY! If a real pet shop owner really wrote this...i dont know what to say! I highlighted my "Favorite parts" It makes me feel really good about Petshops:rolleyes: Thank you ladymom for this post |
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