
I'm definitely kicking myself for deciding to have just one more litter of puppies before we quit the business for good. Since that fateful decision:
1. Our wonderful Vet retired with very little notice, leaving us to deal with the other one in town that I don't care for at all.
2. Our groomer spent 10 weeks in Alaska and isn't taking much business anymore, so I've been having to use a new one in town that isn't as good and more expensive.
3. I just found out yesterday morning that the ad we have had in the city for a week was mis-printed with the wrong area code on the phone number.
4. Everyone is broke from buying school clothes and supplies or going on vacation and aren't thinking of buying a dog. Happens every year at this time.
5. The only buyer we had so far called to back out last night and the phone still isn't ringing from the newly corrected ad in the paper.
6. Out of six puppies, five are males. Nine out of ten buyers want a female.
WHAT WAS I THINKING?!
We have so many strikes against us this time that it's almost funny. "Almost" being the key word here, lol.
So we may have to reduce the price drastically this time. However, I would rather reduce them to almost nothing to make sure they go to good homes than to sell to a broker that will ship then god knows where and not treat them well at all.
I was at the "new" Vet's office the other day with all six puppies and had already been waiting over an hour for my scheduled appointment to get their first shots. There were a few other folks waiting in this tiny waiting room, along with a young couple sitting across from me that had a puppy in a box on the floor that wasn't moving at all and obviously very sick. From the looks of the couple and my suspicion that this was a pit bull puppy, I was pretty sure this puppy had not been vaccinated and therefore could possibly be very sick with Parvo.
The puppy died right there in that box on the floor, so the couple said they were taking it home to bury it. Two of the Vet's assistants came out and said they recognized the odor of Parvo before they even got to the waiting area and proceeded to start spraying and wiping the area the box was in.
Needless to say, I was pretty upset along with everybody else in that room. There I sat with six UN-VACCINATED, vulnerable, innocent puppies.
And I wanted to scream at that couple about letting a puppy go un-vaccinated against such deadly diseases, letting it get way too sick before they brought it in, and not having a whit of concern for other animals in that room that could be exposed.
Whew, it felt good to get that off my chest. I think I'll go play with the puppies and smell that wonderful puppy breath for a while. It's really great therapy, ya know? They are all so precious!
So, how many of you are interested in giving one of these precious pups a good home? Hmmmmm????
Aw, come on! You'll fall in love instantly, I promise.
Later, y'all!
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