She Should Have Known Better

[Little Gifts]

I still can't get my head around the fact people are continuing to pay large amounts of money on a bitsa! I wish they realised how much they are being ripped off. Would they buy a fake Gucci handbag for more than they could buy the real thing? I am currently fostering a beautiful shar pei boy who was bought through a pet shop. I can imagine how excited his 'breeders' were with this wrinkled bundle and probably charged a fortune for this 'rare breed'. Yep so rare that they have their own dedicated rescue groups to handle the numbers needing to be rehomed, including puppies. Same as those 'rare' blue staffies!

People are being ripped off financially and being lied to about the real breed of dog and what its needs will be, dogs are being abused by going to the wrong homes for them, probably without the basic vet work and clearly there are opportunists out there who will continue to make a living out of breeding and selling these amazing animals and continuing this ugly cycle of pain.

The fact a pet shop is willing to sell a dog with unclear parentage that may end up being seized and destroyed is yet another example of how little they care for the animal itself and should be reported for abuse. If they are in the pet industry they have no excuse for not knowing what the legislation in their state/area is.

[LizT]

If you can, try to get contact details of the breeder in case the council ever pull your daughter up about the dog. This is the only way the person I knew got off having her dog declared a restricted breed. The dog I know of was a cross of 2 different purebreeds. Then, if the worse happens, DNA proving parentage might help. Just a suggestion.....

For proof of parentage DNA to work you need to test the parents also. They may not be available.

Breed Proof DNA is still a bit shaky. I heard of a case where tests on a Pure Breed Cavalier bred by a Registered Breeder came back saying the dog was a Doberman.

Edited April 16, 2012 by LizT

[HugUrPup]

DNA testing wouldn't be worth the time and money.. so many breeds have had other breeds as original foundation dogs.

I 100% agree with what puppy_sniffer wrote. This pet shop didn't know what BSL was.. they looked at me blankly.

[sumosmum]

If you can, try to get contact details of the breeder in case the council ever pull your daughter up about the dog. This is the only way the person I knew got off having her dog declared a restricted breed. The dog I know of was a cross of 2 different purebreeds. Then, if the worse happens, DNA proving parentage might help. Just a suggestion.....

For proof of parentage DNA to work you need to test the parents also. They may not be available.

Breed Proof DNA is still a bit shaky. I heard of a case where tests on a Pure Breed Cavalier bred by a Registered Breeder came back saying the dog was a Doberman.

Yes agree about needing both parents to test, but on the off chance that the person who bred them may have both of them, it still may be worth following up. Both parents may even be purebred dogs, as was the case that I knew of. I didn't mean Breed dna testing of the pup.

[Staff'n'Toller]

DNA testing wouldn't be worth the time and money.. so many breeds have had other breeds as original foundation dogs.

I 100% agree with what puppy_sniffer wrote. This pet shop didn't know what BSL was.. they looked at me blankly.

They know.