I don’t normally smile when I hear those words – and I have heard them all before – every one of them – from people who phone our rescue and ask us to take in their dog because they can’t cope with the problems their nice little puppy has developed as it has grown up.
Health problems, behavioural issues – that is, if it has survived to develop.

Where did you get it? What did they say? – I ask over the phone.
So many times I hear the words (or a variation) that are written above.

It’s not so funny under those circumstances and it doesn’t make me smile then.
I just think of the misery caused by the greed of the breeders involved.
I think – when will people ever learn? What is it that makes them fall under the spell of the breeders glib excuses – and believe them?
I find myself asking – Why does the desire to have a new puppy cause so many to throw away common sense?
can we put this on our website – please – with due credit of course.