Too Many Freaking BYB's

[theterrierman]

I'm serious, the classifieds in my local newspaper have 10 ads for puppies, 8 of which are "ready in time for the holidays" or something similar. I'm expecting that I'll see 20 "free to good home" ads by March. People will never learn, will they? This is why X-Mas gets me down a little.

[Danegirl2208]

*sighs* i know what you mean..there are so many Bulldog and Chihuahua puppies being advertised here as "The perfect Christman Gift"..its so upsetting

[Suki Wingy]

I want to sue Best Buy for showing it's ok by putting a lab puppy underneather the tree in their comercial.

[theterrierman]

I want to sue Best Buy for showing it's ok by putting a lab puppy underneather the tree in their comercial.

So true...

There's a pet supply store around here that has a huge sale that started last week, every year. And they are big promoters of rescue!?!? I didn't say anything, because I'm probably getting a Brittany pup in late January, which means LOTS of business with them, but it really cheesed me off. If I owned a pet supply store, I'd double my prices on puppy-related items at X-mas, and tell ppl not to get a pup, to wait until at least they took down their tree.

[bckrazy]

=( Sadly, 10 is incredibly few. The Sacramento Bee has atleast 200 puppy ads!!!

[tikeyas_mom]

i hate to say this but.. I was one of those people just a while ago... My lab got pregnant by accident (we were even schedualed for a spay that same week!!!) when she escaped and bred with our naibours Shepherd... I was really mad/sad/conserned/ but kinda excited .... And sure enough we had 8 little pups born on Aug 17th, about 5 had homes right off the bat (to friends and family) but we did have to put an add in the paper for the few who didn't find homes right away.... most of those people, I'm sure put ads in the paper to make money, but I wasn't one of them.