westcountry wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:00 pm
The thing for me was seeing the family with the puppy. It was so obvious that the pup was going to have a good home. Call me a softy but its not all about money.
As long as you’re happy with the arrangement and you’ve obviously done the right thing by the pup. It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks.
Springcopse spaniels wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:46 am
Indeed it is about the best home possible, a bitch I kept back had a small hernia, and kept her until it it either disappeared or required surgery. It has since healed naturally.
I was breeding for myself, and sold the pups for 500. That was out of a FTW bitch, yet I see dogs being sold out of general beating stock for 900. Ludicrous. And that was a litter of 9....
Had a chap come view our pups who had just sold a litter of sprockers for £850 not docked or dew clawed. Crazy.
Its funny old world concerning puppy sales. Peeps can get same or sometimes more for nothing to nothing or inter breed. Breeding I thought was for keeping good genes or breeding good dogs. Looking at sales the same peeps crop up with their dogs and looking at it why and what benefit are they doing the breed.
A similar thing happened in a litter i recently bred. The bitch accidentally sat or jumped (unsure how it happened exactly) on a 4 week old pup (which was sold) and injured its leg. Initially it appeared to have a broken back but after being to the vets, x rays and some TLC it got back on its feet albeit with the left rear leg held up and non weight bearing. The vet advice was to leave the leg and basically see what happened, it appeared the hip joint was partially disclocated due to inflammation. The vet advised once the inflammation had gone down a better assessment could be made. I gave the deposit back to the potential owner and they chose a different pup. at 8 weeks the pup had another x ray, by this time it was weight bearing on the leg but it was obvious there was an issue. The vet advised to leave it until 6 months and assess again then, it may have recovered or there could be the possibility of a leg amputation being needed due to damage on the hip joint etc etc. Obviously this pup could not be sold, i subsequently gave it to a family member of one of the veterinary nurses FOC with a contract in place that i would pay for the procedure, should it need one, at 6 months.
Fast forwward, the pup recently had an operation on the leg (i forget the exact details of what was done), the leg was kept and a very promising recovery is hoped for. The bill was much more than the sale value of the pup, but it felt to me like the right way to do business. The pup should have a very good, long and happy life (as a pet)
Thats unfortunate MDP. Whats good is that you did the right thing and were honest. Fingers crossed that the pup makes a full recovery and has a fantastic life as a family pet.
It is never wrong to do the right thing. I find often you end up getting something in return for your generosity, sometimes much later but people do remember good deeds. Congratulations on making the right decision.
I had a pup diagnosed with an umbilical hernia once. It disappeared as he got older and never caused a speck of trouble.
I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person. - Bill Murray
westcountry wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 1:41 pm
Thats unfortunate MDP. Whats good is that you did the right thing and were honest. Fingers crossed that the pup makes a full recovery and has a fantastic life as a family pet.
Thanks and i'm sure he will. He was a mad little F@cker
westcountry wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:00 pm
The thing for me was seeing the family with the puppy. It was so obvious that the pup was going to have a good home. Call me a softy but its not all about money.
As long as you’re happy with the arrangement and you’ve obviously done the right thing by the pup. It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks.
Aye, and while it matters not what anybody else thinks, you may rest assured that think - about you and the circumstances in getting the pup - is what them who gained a new family member through your largess will do every single day of your pup's life with them. I would say, Ask me how I know - but I wouldn't want to gum up my keyboard with an old man's tears in explaining. Never needed to explain the gratitude that lives on long after the pup's 15 years on earth moved her for eternity into my heart - an address she shares with the breeder who sent her to me (with an umbilical hernia that didn't bother me - or the pup - one iota in the years ahead). You done good, westcountry, and made my day in thinking about it.
westcountry wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:00 pm
The thing for me was seeing the family with the puppy. It was so obvious that the pup was going to have a good home. Call me a softy but its not all about money.
As long as you’re happy with the arrangement and you’ve obviously done the right thing by the pup. It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks.
Aye, and while it matters not what anybody else thinks, you may rest assured that think - about you and the circumstances in getting the pup - is what them who gained a new family member through your largess will do every single day of your pup's life with them. I would say, Ask me how I know - but I wouldn't want to gum up my keyboard with an old man's tears in explaining. Never needed to explain the gratitude that lives on long after the pup's 15 years on earth moved her for eternity into my heart - an address she shares with the breeder who sent her to me (with an umbilical hernia that didn't bother me - or the pup - one iota in the years ahead). You done good, westcountry, and made my day in thinking about it.
