Things that jerk my chain - Page 1

Why do people keep doing this ? They buy a pup , tell you they own only a lab pup that was a stray .They want a GSD for a pet He will be fixed . You ask  them all the right questions .like have you ever owned a GSD what are your plans for it  ,where will you keep it will you train it will you love it . Oh they have all the right answers . So off goes the pup to live with the lab they picked up as a stray . They sound great right . NOT !!!!!!!!  Now a year and a half later they call you and tell you both dogs are going to the pound the lab and the GSD .The dogs are fighting with eachother .OK did the male get fixed ? has he been out breeding dogs . The answer is no two both questions . Well lets see give me the back the Shepherd the lab is on his own ,I can't save all dogs . Anyways she gets here with this 85 pound male I get to talking and tell her not to go get a new pup as she will just be getting the same problems with the puppy dumb years .If two dogs are two much today they wont be any easyer to start over with a new pup . NOW HERE IT COMES . She tell me she has a six year old female GSD that just had pups by this male and she is keeping the pup and the mother .Thank god she said 4 pups were born dead so that only left her with the one pup alive she is keeping . Good thing she forgot she told me she never bred the dog . Anyways these are the things that jerk my chain . I took a deep breath grabed the dog by the chain and just walked away from her . Poor dogs . What the heck is wrong with people anymore ?

I know what you mean about people answering questions the right way. Didn't someone post about some people actually BORROWING a HOUSE to put on a great face for the breeder?  Back in our Dobie days, it was worse. Half the calls I got  (Have ya got anymore of them DoVermans?) "NO!  If you can't say it or spell it you don't need it!"


Luckily, out of four litters, only one pup ended up back with me.  This guy gave all the right answers, ect. THEN I get a call at 4 am from the vet I worked for at the time saying, "Becky, I don't know what you want to do, I've got one of your pups here". We got up and drove down to find this idiot had put a 4 month old pup in the back of his truck and DUH! She fell out!  Her  humerous was broken.  He didn't have the money(!) for surgery, so I made him sign her papers back over to me and sign a "bill of sale" turning her over. We got her fixed; a BIG deal, she had to be strictly crated, picked up and carried out to potty, ect.  After two months of care, I placed her with some other clients that had Dobes, so she ended up with a great home.

Only kicker was, every time she saw me she threw her butt on my arm expecting me to carry her big self everywhere!

She had no registration on the dog . She did not want to pay for it .She just wanted a pet. I hold the AKC . I thought her  word was good enuf as she lives close by me . Not that I know her . She says the other 4 pups were in the mother for three days after the first one was born . No vet care for the mom . Ergo dead pups .  Lots of people want to use my dogs as studs for their bitches .I always tell them NO . I guess this was her way to get around the BIG NO . I think If I would not have to run into her in the grocery store some time in the future she would have heard  what I really thought about it all . I guess it bothers me more that dogs are disposable to some people . 

Worse yet, they pass that attitude on to thier own offspring and the circle continues......

Yes It could be worse . I know another lady who lives close she always wants to use my long coat male to stud her female . My male has an overbite . She dont care she "just loves him ". I never stud him he is just a big goof ball pet . Every six months she calls and askes if she can use him on her ACA female I always tell her NO . this time  I lied and said I fixed him . Well this time she bred her dog she has six panda shepherds from her breeding . Last time the dog had one or two panda pups .I told her not to breed the female again and not to the same male does she listen NO . So lets see what she does now with the panda pups .  I'll just bet in three years or so these two women get together breed these dogs and someone will point the panda finger at me .LOL

MIndhunt, I am appalled,  especially with your last case scenario! And the poor dogs always pay in the end, when it should be the idiot people.

That would get me boiling over mindhunt . Some people leave me speachless .  Breath deep !