Reponse from a petstore

[binka_nugget]

As some of you may know, I dropped by a petstore the other day and managed to get a pic of one of the pups. I found the store's website and emailed them just out of curiosity. I thought it'd be interesting to share..so here it is.

"hi..i'm just wondering, how much do you charge for your pups? If you can't provide an exact price...maybe just an estimation? Also, where do you get your pups from? Are they from puppy mills or backyard breeders?

Thanks,
Ashley"

Response:
"Dear Ashley,

You have to go to the store and ask the price of a particular dog. Our dog are priced asccording to how much we paid for them.

Also, Our dogs are pricy because they have to see 3 vets ( the least )before reaching us. The breeder's vet, the U.S. customs vet, Canadian Agriculture Vets...this is before a dog is delivered to our store. After selling them, we have to pay for the first vet check up. There are so many rules and regualtions to follow. I hope you understand us.

As pet stores , we tried our best not to buy from puppy mills and backyard breeders because both type of dogs will bring us loads of problem. So, I believe most pet store won't be doing this unless they are just newly opened and have not experienced " problems '"yet. We had been in business for the last 25 years. So, we know it is not worth our while buying dogs from bad suppliers.


As a standard rule, we can only buy from breeders that know what they are doing. Our staff are allowed to buy our dogs "only" from people that agrees to raise their dogs base on the PIJAC rules. We prefer to buy from suppliers that we know for many years. You see, there is no advantage in buying from puppy mills or backyeard breeders even how cheap they drop their price.


Sincerely yours,

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Some of that makes sense...but I still wouldn't believe a thing they tell me. If you saw the pic in my other thread...it shows what kind of cage the pups are in. "PIJAC" allows that???

[binka_nugget]

oh yes, just thought I'd point out that this person had ALOT of grammer mistakes...yeesh even I caught them.

[kingrattus]

why don't u send the pic of the puppy & tell him how horrible their cages r.

[tomkatzid]

Originally posted by binka_nugget
If you saw the pic in my other thread...it shows what kind of cage the pups are in. "PIJAC" allows that???

Could you post the link for us. Thanks Katz

[Kater]

http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...threadid=33738

[binka_nugget]

I deleted the pic at imagestation on the other thread but I've attached it here. It's not horrible, I guess it's a standard petstore dog cage. It's just that there's such little room in there and if they do happen to have enough room to walk around, it's all wire except for the little cutting board they each have.

I guess there's no point to this thread..I just needed to vent.

[Samantha Puppy]

*sigh* I wish I could rescue them all.

[Logan]

What's PIJAC?

[Amber]

E-mail them back with the picture and say. "Explain why your puppys have to sit on a tiny cutting board, with the rest of the cage being wire? That isnt good on them you know!"

[cali]

holy smokes I have never seen a petstore cage like that before! the petshops here, have large dog pens for puppys, and rooms with windows so the pups have a whole room to themselves, the ones kept in cages, they are quites large, about the size a of large ex. pen. that cage that poor pup is in is horrable! and a water bottle??? this aint a critter its dog! and how is he supposed to walk on that wire?? that would be really uncomfortable

[bluekat]

That's such a cute pup!!!!
But look at that cage! A cutting board?!?!?! Poor puppy It always makes me sad to see pets in pet stores, thinking of how they're spending most of the day, if not all, in a tiny cage.

[binka_nugget]

I emailed them back asking about the cutting boards and wire cages. Here's what I got back:

"The wire cages are actually recommended by PIJAC. The cutting boards are comprimise reached with local customers. The placement of a solid surface is actually detremental to the care of the animals, but most pleasing to the customers.

The base material is ideally suited to prevent the animals for laying in there own waste, and thus preventing sores on the skin of the animals. There have been no instances of hurt feet while being on this material in my 15 years of caring for the puppies in this way.

Thomas
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I still don't trust them. I won't ever trust a pet store that sells animals like that. It does make sense (again) but why not give them a larger cage? The sheltie only had room in there because it was a sheltie..the berner pup I saw barely had any. If this is true, I guess they're one of the better pet stores but I still think they're all evil.

[GoldenRetrLuver]

What a bunch of B.S. "We don't buy from puppy mills or BYB's" Yeah, sure. A good, *responsible* breeder would NEVER sell to pet shops.

Poor pup...I hope someday we can shut all those h*ll holes down.

[Amber]

I agree with you binka_nugget

[binka_nugget]

lmao I've just noticed...I mistyped response as reponse..lmao