Tami wrote: >"...but no they got a pup out of a Pet Store. ARGGGGGGGG."
>How timely, one of my best friends (of many years) just last night emailed >me a picture of her new pup, an American Eskimo they bought from a petstore, >& I've been thinking the same thing. Everytime she mentioned wanting a dog >I told her about puppy mills, responsible breeder criteria, rescues, health >clearances, etc. > >Now I know how so many parents feel when their kids run amok. . . "where >did I go wrong?" *** but sometimes it succeeds. I have been having an ongoing dialog with a woman who bought her puppy from our resident Georgia puppy miller. After two weeks of intestinal illnesses/bloody stools, and the knowledge of what she had done in making this purchase, she did what I consider an incredibly courageous thing...she returned the puppy. I am frankly amazed the guy took the puppy back (and returned her money), and she is understandably devastated over the whole thing, but at the end of the day she did the RIGHT THING!!! And she did it all on her own. My tongue was bitten in two, but I didn't tell her what to do. When she told me where she got the puppy from, I informed her of what we knew about the guy, but I wasn't going to rake her over the coals... I just figured it was water over the dam, and it would do no good to alienate her, especially as she had gotten such an earful from the puppy miller about what horrible people we "show" people were. I hope when she is ready to get another berner pup - and she isn't ready right now - we will be able to thank her for having done the the right thing by finding her a healthy, happy bouncing baby berner. This PPO can just as easily represent the future of our breed as the PPO's who have to have the first puppy they see. It doesn't always work out this way, and I would never have thought this situation would have resolved itself in the way that it did...But it is gratifying to know that sometimes our educational efforts are NOT in vain, that they DO have merit and people DO listen and read and at the end of the day, they DO make the right choices. Mary and the girls, Laurel and Bailey Fayetteville, GA
