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| - Sadly my teenage daughter got a puppy from here 3 weeks ago. She did this without my permission or prior knowledge. I was pissed when I found out. I love puppies, but I've always, always, always used a shelter, a rescue, or just adopt from someone with a free litter of mutts who needed good homes. I simply don't agree with buying and selling puppies and kittens. This just adds to the problem of over population of pets and requires Animal Control to perform more euthanasias on unwanted pets, and oftentimes these bitches and their litters live in sicking conditions. Sad and wrong.
Please never pay anything more than a nominal adoption fee for a dog or a cat!
Now onto the true reason I am giving them one star. The puppy is SICK, I mean really not well. We've taken her to the vet 3 different times since she's been home (at great additional expense) and she has at least 2 (maybe 3) different intestinal parasites and kennel cough. I guess on the bright side we're lucky she didn't have Parvo too...
The puppy's belly was so swollen when my daughter got her and my daughter just thought that meant the puppy was well fed. Wrong. The puppy was full, and I do mean full, of worms. So scary and revolting. If you watched her belly closely enough you could see the swirling worms moving around underneath her skin. It was pretty bad.
We've been treating her for these damn worms for 3 full weeks now and we have YET to get a clean bill of health for this poor little thing. And she's still fighting her kennel cough!! Just this morning I could hear her hacking away, she sounded like a lifelong smoker fixing his morning coffee...
The vet told us that these puppies from the pet stores are routinely sick and often antibiotic resistant too because the puppy mills, or the pet store, hits them all (sick or not) with a broad spectrum antibiotic that isn't quite strong enough to kill any parasites or to stop kennel cough, and is just enough to make the illnesses morph into something stronger and resistant to the antibiotic.
So, there you have it. My daughter's beloved mini dachshund puppy is sick as hell. I read the paperwork they brought home with the dog. The pet store essentially washes their hands of these little guys almost as soon as you take it home. Pretty much saying they are not responsible for selling or warrantying sick animals. They do provide a certificate for a free vet exam (which doesn't include vaccinations) and that is nice of them, because you're gonna need it.
Oh, did I forget to add that my daughter's sweet (but naive) boyfriend spent $1,400 for this precious little, sickly puppy for her??? :/ Yep. $1,400. I almost fell on the floor when she told me that, considering all the other things they could have done with that money...Hello?? Get a $25 shelter puppy instead, and invest the rest in college savings??
I *guess* it's bargain considering the miserable life this little sweetie was living at the pet store, but c'mon Puppies in Love, you can sell a couple of naive teenagers a $1,400 puppy and still not even make sure the poor little thing isn't bursting at the seams with intestinal worms and coughing its tiny brains out with kennel cough?
You should be ashamed.
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