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rachels.haven
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The beauty of things is that
a) Nobody's phone works well in my town so this was all over email.
b) the vet was out today for this puppy. I'm not beating him.
c) the town animal control officer/barn inspector was just out to inspect our barn. He knows my name, my dogs, and all the animal's conditions. They're not beaten. Quite the opposite actually. Right now everything's grousing about the dive in temperatures.
E) as soon as Badger is rehomed I'm leaving reviews and buyer bewaring just the facts in as many places as I see fit (might consider doing it earlier, but DH seems most comfy with it this way). She certainly doesn't want him back. She just wants her business protected. Her business is selling defective dogs with an intentionally vague health contract. People should know. I've been asking around to try to find GOOD places to honestly list him up as a pet and several people want to know who the breeder is. I got the name of some rescue/local groups who can place dogs with people who take great pride in taking in "broken" (as DH put it) animals and giving them good quality of life. If we can't home him we'll get him euthanized.
I didn't research the breeder enough. Adds on CL, website, we did a visit and things looked all good there. BUT Yelp tells me they've only been breeding goats since 2017.Wish I'd checked that but have you ever checked yelp on a farm? Only in New England. Not where I came from. If I'd seen that, I'd have skipped them. No puppies from new commers (you don't see me breeding dogs...although if I were inclined I can tell you I'd do a better job). If I can ever work up the nerve to try again with puppies I will definitely do better checking up. Maybe fingerprint and run a background check (I wish). If puppy backyard breeder and scam artist comes up on that print out we'll run like the wind-if it were that simple.
More likely I'll never buy an animal priced at more than $350-375 again. When any more than that is on the table people's brains turn off when the dollar signs turn on and it turns into something that's just done because of cash. I never want to buy another dog again. Cash grabbers.
At least when you buy a goat, especially an adult or teen aged goat, you know it's going to eat through it's purchase price in 4-6 months or less and there's a good chance the breeder LOST money on it.
Anyway, enough rant. Somedoggie got his meds tonight. DH locked him up and said he didn't look like he was doing too good again-another episode coming on. I'm starting to wish I could just get him put down and be done with this because he's really suffering, but we'll try and give him some dignity.
I'm mad, but I've got a plan.
The test results will just say he doesn't have organ failure or things like that. They're looking for abnormal blood work-anything BUT epilepsy causing a problem. The actual tests for epilepsy I believe are very, very, prohibitively expensive from what I understand.
Sorry if the post is unclear/fragmented. I'm tired. G'night.
a) Nobody's phone works well in my town so this was all over email.
b) the vet was out today for this puppy. I'm not beating him.
c) the town animal control officer/barn inspector was just out to inspect our barn. He knows my name, my dogs, and all the animal's conditions. They're not beaten. Quite the opposite actually. Right now everything's grousing about the dive in temperatures.
E) as soon as Badger is rehomed I'm leaving reviews and buyer bewaring just the facts in as many places as I see fit (might consider doing it earlier, but DH seems most comfy with it this way). She certainly doesn't want him back. She just wants her business protected. Her business is selling defective dogs with an intentionally vague health contract. People should know. I've been asking around to try to find GOOD places to honestly list him up as a pet and several people want to know who the breeder is. I got the name of some rescue/local groups who can place dogs with people who take great pride in taking in "broken" (as DH put it) animals and giving them good quality of life. If we can't home him we'll get him euthanized.
I didn't research the breeder enough. Adds on CL, website, we did a visit and things looked all good there. BUT Yelp tells me they've only been breeding goats since 2017.Wish I'd checked that but have you ever checked yelp on a farm? Only in New England. Not where I came from. If I'd seen that, I'd have skipped them. No puppies from new commers (you don't see me breeding dogs...although if I were inclined I can tell you I'd do a better job). If I can ever work up the nerve to try again with puppies I will definitely do better checking up. Maybe fingerprint and run a background check (I wish). If puppy backyard breeder and scam artist comes up on that print out we'll run like the wind-if it were that simple.
More likely I'll never buy an animal priced at more than $350-375 again. When any more than that is on the table people's brains turn off when the dollar signs turn on and it turns into something that's just done because of cash. I never want to buy another dog again. Cash grabbers.
At least when you buy a goat, especially an adult or teen aged goat, you know it's going to eat through it's purchase price in 4-6 months or less and there's a good chance the breeder LOST money on it.
Anyway, enough rant. Somedoggie got his meds tonight. DH locked him up and said he didn't look like he was doing too good again-another episode coming on. I'm starting to wish I could just get him put down and be done with this because he's really suffering, but we'll try and give him some dignity.
I'm mad, but I've got a plan.
The test results will just say he doesn't have organ failure or things like that. They're looking for abnormal blood work-anything BUT epilepsy causing a problem. The actual tests for epilepsy I believe are very, very, prohibitively expensive from what I understand.
Sorry if the post is unclear/fragmented. I'm tired. G'night.
