If you are searching for a dog as pet or for shows, its one big task unless you want to be cheated and fooled. I have been looking for good dog for my self for one year and went from pet stores, to a veterinary doctors, to breeders, big show enthusiasts, kennel club and so called show winners. Trust me they are all full of liars, cheats and fraudsters. If you buy a dog from any one of those and this is your first pet, your are bound to be fooled and you wont even know. We usually see some very nice glamorous pictures of some breed of a dog and would love to have that dog in our homes. In 99% cases where people buy dogs from these so called pet store, veterinary doctors and breeders the pups are sold to you because each one of them makes money out of it and we don't get to know facts.The truth about how pure is the breed of that dog, who are parents of that pup, if the parents of the pups are being treated nicely or a like a puppy making machine, whether the kennel club certification given to you is original or not and if the puppy is healthy and technically right as per the breed standards or not and what's the actual worth of the puppy. Infact most of the puppies die in the first six months as the puppies are bred in the most unprofessional standards. Doctors were considered as gods, but now medicine has become a money making profession and its difficult to trust anyone as most are them are there for the love of the money rather than the love of the animal.
The purchase of wonderfull Little Puppy can be a fantastic experience. A dog can be your closest friend and a real pal. But an unscrupulous breeder, pet store owner and a veterinary doctor, looking to take advantage of you, can turn your niavete into a disaster.
An unhealthy, poorly Bred puppy will cause great heartache and cost you big rupees in vet Bills. This happens much more often than you might imagine. The unscrupulous breeder, pet store owner and veterinary doctor will cost you much more money heartache than the few hundred rupees he scams from you. They don't care how much heartache they cost you and your family. They just want your money.
All puppies are cute! What does that mean to you? Ugly dogs are cute as puppies, ill bred dogs are cute as puppies, Unhealthy dogs are cute as puppies, Puppies that don't remotely conform to breed standards are cute as puppies. If you buy a puppy based on how cute, or cuddly or playfull it is, you stand a good chance of ending up with a puppy that grows into dog you are going to be very unhappy with and it will grow into a dog with many health problems that will cost you a big fortune in money and tremendous headache.
No matter how much time, effort it takes, I was determined to buy a very good quality dog (labrador) for myself. And in this search for very good pet I ended up talking , meeting, speaking to more than 200 people across India who were dealing with dogs and cats other pets with some way or the other primarily agents, back yard breeders, pet store owners, veterinary doctors and puppy mills which are thriving in India. In this search I discovered the filthy , dirty and black world where pets were being sold and thrown like Garbage and people were fooled , cheated and provided nothing better than a street dog. As the poor pet can't speak in human language no one comes to know the real truth about the quality of the breed of the dog till the puppy is bought , money is paid, so called sellers of the pup disappear. Its when you raise the the pup to the age of 1 or 2 years that's when we come to know that the dog is not the kind we were looking for. Infact most of pets in different houses are no better than a street dog in breed standards, no matter how much they may dislike me for writing this but i can understand their ignorance under which they got their dogs. They love it, care for it and make them part of their family, but they suffer as well.
In my search for a dog for my self I discovered that the biggest star in Bollywood has been sold recently so called "very good quality dog", and he doesn't even know the real worth of that puppy. Lots of money had exchanged hands, but still the Bollywood star didn't get a single worth of his money and he doesn't even know about it. The so called best show winner has cheated a the Bollywood star. Infact the mother of that puppy is in really bad shape. It is an imported champion labrador, brought into India to be a puppy making machine. Since the mother has already given quite a few litters in last few years, and it may not be able to give any more pups. It is left in the back yard to die. I wonder how a animal lover(breeder) would treat his dogs like that. Would any of us like to buy a pup form such breeders. Trust me there are thousands like this breeder.
In India where humans are sold for few hundred rupees and no one comes to know, so how does one make sure to get a very good pet or show dog. Well the answere's need to be discovered. Blog with me, share your experiences, thoughts and get to know the secrets. I hope that my experience can save you from most of the pitfalls so common in the business of breeding and selling puppies.
