cockermom93
08-16-2008, 04:10 AM
Ok I have a customer who is not a puppy mill but is a shabby breeder. Her dogs are loved and are not caged, they get flea control and they get groomed on a bi-annually bassis. These are Shih tzu's and they come in matted and smelly, yet in a seemingly healthy condition and mental state.
She came to me a while back and said that she has to get rid of alot of her breeder adults and to keep a look out for potential new owners for them. She has had to take a full time job just to care for them and is working 60 plus hours a week and needs to downsize to be able to care for the ones she can't bare to get rid of. I told her about a no kill program that I work with called the South West Missouri K9's and that they would keep them in a home situation untill they find them a forever home, the kind of place that if you don't want the dog you have to bring it back to them. She said she would think on it and get back to me, well the other day I was able to get the first of many into the care of the sw mo k9's. (Yeah)
Her name is Becka and she was in today for her spay... only it turns out she is pregnant and heartworm positive! Now I am freaked out because she has like upwards of 25-30 dogs and any/all of them could be positive!!! She hardly has the money to get them groomed on a regular bassis so I know it is gonna be really hard to get them all tested at once! I told her about Revolution and that it works on fleas, ticks, and heartworms and that it costs about the same as Frontline, but to get them on it they all have to be tested. I am really worried for her because the Sw Mo K9's only has so much space available because it is a "foster" program instead of a shelter, they would pay for the treatment of all the dogs but they don't have the room for them right now. I know there is nothing I can do but I just am a little disturbed by the fact that she didn't have them on preventative... It has made me think a little differently of her and I don't really know what to do. Sorry so long I am just venting via computer... Thanks for reading. :)
She came to me a while back and said that she has to get rid of alot of her breeder adults and to keep a look out for potential new owners for them. She has had to take a full time job just to care for them and is working 60 plus hours a week and needs to downsize to be able to care for the ones she can't bare to get rid of. I told her about a no kill program that I work with called the South West Missouri K9's and that they would keep them in a home situation untill they find them a forever home, the kind of place that if you don't want the dog you have to bring it back to them. She said she would think on it and get back to me, well the other day I was able to get the first of many into the care of the sw mo k9's. (Yeah)
Her name is Becka and she was in today for her spay... only it turns out she is pregnant and heartworm positive! Now I am freaked out because she has like upwards of 25-30 dogs and any/all of them could be positive!!! She hardly has the money to get them groomed on a regular bassis so I know it is gonna be really hard to get them all tested at once! I told her about Revolution and that it works on fleas, ticks, and heartworms and that it costs about the same as Frontline, but to get them on it they all have to be tested. I am really worried for her because the Sw Mo K9's only has so much space available because it is a "foster" program instead of a shelter, they would pay for the treatment of all the dogs but they don't have the room for them right now. I know there is nothing I can do but I just am a little disturbed by the fact that she didn't have them on preventative... It has made me think a little differently of her and I don't really know what to do. Sorry so long I am just venting via computer... Thanks for reading. :)