A puppy is for life!

Re: A puppy is for life!

Rachel Jayne — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:04:43 GMT

I had a client tell me that neutering was un-neccessary & "cruel" recently.....

twat.....

so leaving you bitch to get mammary cancer and or a pyo is a kinder option....?!?!

Re: A puppy is for life!

Vicky RVN — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:24:01 GMT

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We had some people come in with a new puppy and boss going through the usual about vaccines, insurance etc they just kept saying don't believe in that, said same to chipping, when asked why they replied well its hard to get rid of them isn't it - obviously planning on dumping it when they've had enough!!!!!

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Stupid people Poor puppy

Re: A puppy is for life!

Nicola Smith — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:52:58 GMT

Re: A puppy is for life!

Kathryn Welsh — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:08:51 GMT

had a stray brought in by member of the public today - tiny SBT pup couldn't be more than 9wks!! Very thin and worm belly! Surely you notice that your puppy has gone missing! Had to phone dog warden to pick it up!

Re: A puppy is for life!

Jen — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:15:54 GMT

Thats exactly what bothers me about all these people that came in the other day claiming they had a new puppy....I spent ages with most of them trying to educate them on basic care and treatment...esp on insurance...how many actually listened who knows....but at least I tried!

Re: A puppy is for life!

ShropshireLass — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:43:53 GMT

Grrrrr, this just makes me livid. What planet are these people on? Planet Moron? Plant I-have-a-god-given-right-to-own-a-pet?

Had a lady ring today asking for advise as she'd bought a puppy for her daughter this Christmas. She said it was vomiting worms and asked if there was anything she could do. I suggested bringing it down for a check/ start off worming treatment, also said it was old enough for vaccinations. The lady said she couldn't afford any and anyway a few years ago her other dog had an op and she claimed on the PDSA, couldn't she do that now? GRRRRRR!!!!

We all go times financial hard times when we might need the PDSA, but why did she buy a new puppy when she couldn't even afford BASIC preventative treatment?

Re: A puppy is for life!

Jo Mackenzie — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:12:09 GMT

I handreared a kitten a few months ago that I was trying to rehome and a lady came in to see it on the first day of a bank holiday long weekend. I said that I was going to keep the kitten for a week or two more as she had a touch of cat flu and I didn't want to rehome her until she was better, the woman said "but its a bank holiday, my kids are driving me up the wall, I need somethign to occupy them"!!!!!!!! I refused to give the kitten to her and she stormed off, then phoned my boss and said that I'd been rude to her and refused to give her the kitten when she'd expected to just turn up and take it home! Luckily enough my boss took my side when I explained what had happened. The same lady phoned later THAT DAY to say she'd got a kitten from somewhere else, poor thing! My kitten went to a fabulous home with one of our after-school helpers who loves her to bits.

I also once had someone come in with a six month old pup and ask me when it would start going to the toilet outside. "Have you been training him?" "What do you mean? They don't just do it by themselves?" duhhhh.....

Re: A puppy is for life!

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:00:41 GMT

WE had a lady call in for behaviour advice last week for her older dog, as it was not getting on with the pup.......... she had the pup for 1 Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, she had them both on the seat beside her and she had been trying to force her older dog to interact with the pup Silly women!! needless to say the older dog was having none of it.....hence her calling for advice.

Re: A puppy is for life!

Claire Cameron — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:59:52 GMT

I had a lady came in just before Christmas whilst I was covering reception, asking where she could get a kitten and on chatting to her, she revealed that she wanted the kitten for her 4 year old daughter because she liked Hello Kitty

Re: A puppy is for life!

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:24:44 GMT

Oh thats so sad! people really dont realise how much work it is! the local rehoming kennels that are clients stop doing any re-homing from 10th dec till 20th Jan so they try to avoid the puppy/dog for christmas.

Re: A puppy is for life!

Vicky RVN — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:03:23 GMT

Jenny, what IDIOTS!!!

My cousin breed her golden retriever a few years ago. She had an email from someone asking if she would ship a pup to America...her reply = no, it's a puppy not a bloody parcel!!! Someone she sold a pup to phoned her the day after collecting their pup, they said if it's going to be this much hassle for the rest of it's life we don't want it!!! It's a little baby dog who's been taken away from it's mother, so you think it will just sleep all night, be littler trained, not try to chew things??? She had the pup back and still has it She kept their deposit money for being such idiots!

Re: A puppy is for life!

Jenny Cook RVN — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:55:53 GMT

Had someone phone today (spoke to other nurse) the OOH service, wanting to rehome their new puppy...........

....... They have only had it just over a WEEK!!!!

Re: A puppy is for life!

Nicola Smith — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:55:14 GMT

We've had a lot too, but we also had a couple of breeders with litters letting them go on xmas eve which I think is a bad idea wit all the upheaval of xmas, people visiting , xmas trees etc.They are letting them go earlier than normal because its xmas! We had one lady picking up a JRT xmas eve that was not even 6 weeks old!

Re: A puppy is for life!

LoveCat — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:29:15 GMT

Wow! I'm amazed by that - thats a lot of puppies!! I have had my puppy for about 5weeks now and it has been a LOT of work!! I really hope that these people have thought it through properly - anyone expecting it to be easy is in for a shock!

Fingers crossed for all those little guys that they have good forever homes