I hope this owner does reconsider...I guess I have become sour from my years in the vet clinic. I had to stand by and watch countless dogs and cats suffer because of their owners neglagence and/or ignorance. It was very hard then to keep my mouth shut then and I guess I am just ready to voice my opinion now. So many people with pets find "cuteness" as an excuse to do whatever they please. When I worked at the clinic I had to see a chi come in for a c-section and loose her puppies and then the owner handed her to me in a box the next day dead He was not a breeder and he just wanted money. He went on to buy more chis to breed because he was determined. Or how about the 9 year old lab that the owner decided to breed for money as well. She was brought into us early one morning with a dead puppy stuck and hanging out of her. It was rotten and the owner had just waited until he could get "around" to bringing her in for help. She still as most labs do looked at us adoringly and licked us as we tried to help her. How about the pregnant dog that was brought in 2 weeks overdue and so badly burned that we could not see her eyes etc. She was so badly burnt that her skin was flaking off in charred strips as we carried her to gas her down so we could at least try to save her puppies before she was euthanized. When we called the owner who was in the drive through ordering food to tell him her fate he told us that he did not want the puppies because he was not willing to bottle feed them. She delivered 14 healthy puppies via c-section...needless to say, the staff took as many as they could and the owner took the rest and put them on another female he had who had puppies to nurse. We never knew if they made it or not. He did not care, he just liked to breed, but if anything went wrong, he would just euthanise.
This is just a small sample of what I witnessed for 5 years of my life, so yes, it has hardened me and has made me sour. I am sick of seeing dogs suffer and owners that don't care. In fact, this is part of the reason I left the clinic, I could not take it anymore
This is just a small sample of what I witnessed for 5 years of my life, so yes, it has hardened me and has made me sour. I am sick of seeing dogs suffer and owners that don't care. In fact, this is part of the reason I left the clinic, I could not take it anymore