BBP
Well-Known Member
I’m so frustrated. I have a Facebook friend, we know each other from school. This year with lockdown she decides she’s going to get a puppy as the kids want one and she now works from home. But she doesn’t want one that sheds or gets dirt and fur everywhere. So it needs to be a poodle type. Lots of people were suggesting breeds and how their poo is the best poo ever. So I put a reply talking about how to select a breeder when looking for a puppy, ask about the genetic health tests for the breed, see the mum with the puppies, watch out for those who have bred to their male pet (as it might be because they can not because it’s a carefully thought out pairing), how many litters has the bitch had, his have they socialised it, all that stuff. Watch out for backyard breeders and puppy farms basically.
Puppy, a chihuahua x miniature poodle, is a pretty enough little thing and has been with her 2 months now. It is sick for the second time. Swollen tummy, loads of fluid and retained feaces and enlarged heart. I suggested she give the breeder a call to see if there is anything genetically in the pups background that might give the vets more info. ‘Oh, I could try them, but to be honest they weren’t proper breeders and it was an ‘accidental’ little (the inverted commas are mine), and it was a pretty rough place.’
It makes me really sad that she seems to be another one who has fed the back yard breeder regime with cash because she wanted a cute fashionable ‘chi-poo’ right now.
Another Facebook friend did the same with a pug and bought one where it’s eyes are too big for its sockets. It looks a happy little thing but so so deformed, they eyes are always pointing different directions to each other.
I know I’m not one to talk, I don’t have a perfect dog. He’s probably harder work than these two pups will ever be. But at least he had the advantage of being from sound, healthy, health tested lines.
Puppy, a chihuahua x miniature poodle, is a pretty enough little thing and has been with her 2 months now. It is sick for the second time. Swollen tummy, loads of fluid and retained feaces and enlarged heart. I suggested she give the breeder a call to see if there is anything genetically in the pups background that might give the vets more info. ‘Oh, I could try them, but to be honest they weren’t proper breeders and it was an ‘accidental’ little (the inverted commas are mine), and it was a pretty rough place.’
It makes me really sad that she seems to be another one who has fed the back yard breeder regime with cash because she wanted a cute fashionable ‘chi-poo’ right now.
Another Facebook friend did the same with a pug and bought one where it’s eyes are too big for its sockets. It looks a happy little thing but so so deformed, they eyes are always pointing different directions to each other.
I know I’m not one to talk, I don’t have a perfect dog. He’s probably harder work than these two pups will ever be. But at least he had the advantage of being from sound, healthy, health tested lines.