So frustrated with my coworker.

[Bruins_Boxer]

  Some people just do not care .

[BoxerPerson]

[JugglingWolves]

He views it as a puppy version of wal-mart? the puppies there are often more expensive than appropriately bred ones!

I once had a friend and we would walk the mall a lot. I loved to go play with the puppies at Petland because I felt that was one small service I could do them. My friend was in love with Shiba Inus and every time we went to Petland, she would say that if she saw a Shiba, she might have to consider it. After many-a-lecture from me on the evils of Petland, she still didn't understand.

She said that those dogs needed rescuing too!

As fellow philosophy major, I felt that she could see the reasoning behind not supporting puppy mills at the expense of a single puppy's happiness in escaping those horrid cages a few weeks earlier.

She just never, ever understood

Luckily, she hasn't gotten a Shiba, yet. I've been able to turn her onto a local Shiba rescue since our strolls in the mall have come to an end. I still don't feel confident that she wouldn't impulse buy a Shiba from Petland if she had the opportunity.

[Samsons Mom]

i was trying to explain to my co-worker what puppy mills were and i told her to look them up on youtube and she was like "yea...im not interested" 
you should still be aware of that they are, IMO.

[PoseidonsMom]

Sigh......one of my young coworkers (of the newest round of clueless, lazy teenagers) was asking me a few weeks ago about puppies and where he could find a bulldog pup.

I went through the whole spiel for 4 days about rescue, responsible breeders, etc.......and after all that he ended up getting a pup he found in the Washington Post.

I guess I should have known better. I mean, what rescue or reputable breeder would place a pup with a high school senior? Not to mention one with an "I want it now" attitude?

Spoiled kid with his stupid Mercedes SUV.......

[PoseidonsMom]

Oh, surprise surprise! He just found out today that his new pup has a heart murmur. The vet said it's a grade 5 (on a scale of 1-6). That seems awfully high, so we're all trying to get him to take her to another vet.

Oh, and he didn't get her from a newspaper. He found a "breeder" online (on some sort of recommended breeder site). Apparently it was still a cruddy breeder since he got the pup at 7 weeks.

[blynn03]

Any breeder can get on those breeders site...that's how I found Bella's.      He learned that one the hard way just like I did!   

[PoseidonsMom]

Okay, the latest news with the coworkers bulldog pup:

He took her to see another vet for a second opinion, and this one says she needs surgery on her heart. Even though the kid's father is loaded, I doubt he'll be willing to pay for the surgery. He told me his dad didn't want to pay for a second opinion.

I'm sad as hell for the pup, but I have absolutely no sympathy for him. He asked my advice, I gave it to him (health tests health tests health tests, get proof) and he blew me off.

[blynn03]

So what is he gonna do...just let it go until she drops dead one day?

[ltournat]