YAY!!!! That could be GREAT news! I hate pet stores, they make it too easy, they over charge, and the poor pups (and their moms and dads) suffer way too much for the pet store's gain.
Before we got Rubi, we were in MD visiting our family. There was a new pet store in Bowie that EVERYONE was talking about - the cutest pups, kittens, everything. It took over a place where I used to get all my fish and fish tank supplies, so I was curious.
We walked in and saw the most adorable fawn male (semi-flashy). He was probably about 4 or 5 months, getting too big for the cage he had been living in for the past 2 to 3 months. He looked MISERABLE! Wasn't jumping around, barking and playing like the other pups - he just laid there with the saddest look on his face. We had talked about getting a boxer for a lil while, we were in MD for my grandfather's funeral, and something kept drawing me back to go look at this baby. I couldn't take it anymore.
Asked the petstore guy how much for the boxer.....I was shocked when he told me $2,000!

WHAT! I said he's gettin too big, looks sick and I'll make you an offer. He went down to $1500! Wow....that's nice. This poor dog suffered. I wanted him so badly, but I wasn't about to support a pet store and/or pay that kinda money. Broke my heart. Weeks later, Shawn's uncle was in the same petstore and saw that boxer still there...looking worse than before. He talked to the owner (his Uncle Joe talked him down on a collie they had bought several months earlier for $200 from $800), and the owner said $1350 for the boxer. At this point, it had to be close to 6 months old. I guess the guy really thought he'd get the money for it.
A few months later, my mom is in the pet store....boxer pup is gone.
Still breaks my heart to think what could have happened to him.
Either he got so sick, he died.
Someone paid ridiculous money to bring him home and are dealing with most likely health problems for the rest of his life.
Or, god knows what.
It just sickens me that Pet Stores and puppy mills get away with this stuff!