Dog Story

I was in line at Walmart one evening, waiting to do a return, when I noticed the lady in front of me had a puppy in her purse.  The woman was so cute, she was waiting to ask if she could bring the puppy into the store to buy supplies for it, she had just picked it up.  I told her I would just go shop, my daughters always used to bring puppies or baby bunnies into the store in their purses.  Walmart would be making money off of her after all.  She did scoot out of line and shop.

But of course I am looking at this puppy, wondering about the breeder it came from. I was really saddened to see that the whites of this puppys eyes were red and not white like they should have been  The puppy was very timid, but of course he was stuffed into a purse but the worse thing were all these raised bumps on his head, which you could clearly see as he didn’t have much fur, he was a Rat Terrier.  They looked like warts, they were quite thick and white.  

I asked the nice lady what was wrong with his head and she said it was from the other puppies chewing on his head.  Sorry, at that point, I had been breeding for over 16 years, impossible for those to be bites and impossible for them to be where they were if it were true.  

My daughter thought maybe they were mosquito bites, she didn’t see them, but no, not bites, unless it was something very big.  It was something viral I think and it was just popping out on this poor dogs head. I so wished I had given her one of my cards but I really couldn’t get at them in my purse with my arms full.

I had to share this, it was so sad and so unnecessary. People are so uninformed, the breeder, the person buying.  Actually, the breeder could have been just trying to rip her off, clearly the puppy had some problems.