Seeking some opinions here, please.

Here is the story:

One of my employee's daughters is in her early twenties, has a baby, is still out at the bars partying almost every night, etc. She is now supposedly getting kicked out of her apartment and has to move. The drama goes on and on ...

She also has a six month old Chinese crested puppy. While I do not think she is outright abusive to the dog, she is, IMO, neglectful. She leaves the puppy, which is not housetrained because she is never home to train it, in an former back porch which was turned into a laundry room. While you can't technically call it "unheated" since it's part of the house, it is NOT warm back there, especially for a hairless dog. Her sister told me the dog "never" has food or water unless she goes over and gives it some. While this is probably an exaggaration, I'm sure there is a lot of truth to it. Her son, who is almost two, is also said to be very rough with the dog.

So, I asked her if she would give me the dog. She told me she would sell me the dog for what she paid for it. (I happen to know she didn't pay for it, she talked her boyfriend-du-jour into buying it for her, but whatever.) She will not budge on the price. While I can afford it, and really want to help this dog, something about buying a BYB puppy from a flaky kid kind of rubs me the wrong way. You know?

So, what do you think? Buy the puppy to save it, or let things be?

Thanks.