*Grrr*
On Sunday, we went on a trip to the flea market, aka trade-lot. It's your typical flea market, people selling junk and people buying junk. On the side, that's where all the people that are trying to sell animals are located. Mainly dogs, but some cats, birds, ducks, rabbits, etc. Of course this is where I go, so I can look at the dogs, just to see what shape they're in, etc. There were maltese pups, beautiful blue doberman pups, cocker spaniels, heinz 57s, and, being in the area that I live in, there are MANY pitbull puppies. Did I mention MANY?!? Several trucks had puppies in the back. For the most part, all the breeds of puppies looked healthy... in other words they weren't emaciated. Me, not being a vet, I don't know about the health of the pups. But it kind of makes you wonder when there is a lady, that is a known puppy mill breeder, has a sign that says "no guarantees" posted. I've seen her buy pups from other people at the end of the day, just so she could breed & sell them. My guess is, they don't even get a trip to the vet with her. In my personal opinion, I feel that ALL dogs & cats should be neutered & spayed at least for a while, because there isn't enough people to take care of all the ones that are already here. The so called "left overs" are sent to research facilities which is sad in its self.
Anyway, back to my original reason of posting... as I was checking out the pit puppies, one truck had the parents in one crate on the back of his truck (which I tought each dog should have had a crate of it's own), but at least they were contained. While others had their dogs on a leash standing around talking. The rule at the market is, you're not suppose to be walking around with a dog unless you're selling it. As I was about to walk by a group of, lets just say... THUGS, one guy had his pit, and another guy walked by with his pit, well guess what, the dogs started firing off (barking) at each other. One guy standing there made the comment "... when I had him, he wouldn't fight, but as soon as I sold him, he started fighting..." *grrr*
As if that wasn't bad enough, when I walked by to see one of the dogs the guy was holding, the collar on the dog was way too loose. As the dog was pulling toward the other dog and the owner is pulling back, there was about an 1.5 inch gap between the dogs neck and the collar. All the dog would have to do is back up and... slip, there goes the dog out from the collar. I've seen it happen at a pit show before. (Needless to say, at that pit show, the owner of the dog that slipped out, was ejected from the property because he couldn't control his dog. They were serious about that stuff at that show.) And where I took my dog training, where they are training protection dogs, that was the first rule I was taught... "make sure the collar is tight enough so that the dog can't slip out of it." As if that wasn't bad enough, the truck of puppies that I was looking at when the other two dogs started barking at each other, had 8 week old pitties, so cute... one of the pups started barking at the two other dogs that were firing off at each other and the owner of the pup said "yeah that's a good girl, you got it in you too." *grrr*
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Andee that is one of the main reasons I stopped going to the "flea market", it does nothing but tick me off when I look at those "breeders"...If I can't take them all home, it makes me cry...and they wonder why pitts and "bully" breeds in general have a bad name...so sad....
Laura
The sale transactions normally take place at "flea markets" and "auctions", sometimes far from where the pets were initially stolen, even several states away. These auctions, which were once public events, are increasingly being held in private in some states, away from the scrutiny of pet owners, government authorities and the media. In Missouri, regarded as the state with the largest amount of stolen pet trafficking, there are no less than 24 of such public auctions and flea markets held, typically on a weekly or monthly basis.
The dogs and cats given away or sold at the flea market are not regulated by any health standards the way animals sold in pet stores are, It is also a public health hazard, People could get scratched or bitten by the unvaccinated animals and be exposed to rabies,It's wrong and they know it. It's all about the money .I think the law regulating the sale of amimals at the flea
market needs to be enforced!!!
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I'd feel angry too if I were you. These kind of people make us responsible parents look so bad - and as you well know, make us bear the burden of these silly legislations. :(
Boo to these thugs and bad owners!
Good job!!! I love you... mom...
It's jerks like that that give us good pittie owners a bad name. Kick some butt!
how is it going? Bosco says hi, site looks good.......
have a great day
the pink wakes you up!
It's the kind of thing that gives pitts not just a bad name but terrible human training. It's enough to make anyone growl. I wish they'd put some of those humans in the kennel and keep them there till they learn some so-called humanity. I don't know anything about the legislation to which Sam refers, but it's worth looking at. I wish there were some clear and easy answers to this. Thanks for writing about.
sad...
You're right! It's sad and it makes us responsible dog owners furious. It's these types of people that give true dog lovers a hard time.
It's sad to know the destiny that those pups are being sold to. I avoid flea markets with pets. I can't bare thinking about how they are screened where they are going. The HS is brimming with unwanted dogs, yet people insist on buying puppy mill puppies at the flea markets or pet stores.Then once the dogs have been trained to do bad things, they get banned and the responsible owners and their dogs suffer due to situations such as this! grrrrrr....
I agree with Hank! Some losers are so stupid!
that is SICK! grr! I once seen on tv that these people went to get pitt bulls from this house b/c they were being taught to fight and were fighting. They went to get the dogs and one was limping, obviously hurt from a fight, and the others were wounded with cuts and such. It was SO sad! And then they had to put them all down b/c they said they werent fit to live with anyone. They were too wild. It was SO sad!
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