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http://www.kctv5.com/story/29537352/pup-owner-scammed-by-dog-breeder-with-cruelty-history"One Overland Park woman found her dream dog online but says the puppy's DNA proves he is not what she paid thousands for.
Amy Stehli wanted a mini bull dog and fell in love with a pup named Oliver advertised on an Overland Park Petland's website.
"We saw him online first. I had been looking at breeders to buy from directly and I feel in love with him. I went up there, his temperament. I was sold," Stehli said.
Stehli paid $2,500 and Oliver became the newest addition to her family.
As time passed, Oliver was growing fast, too fast for the bull dog-pug mix Stehli was told that she had purchased.
"He's gone from 16 pounds to 40 pounds in a matter of weeks and this was getting close to full grown," she said.
Stehli maintains that the pet store pulled a bait and switch on her. She hadn't received the paperwork on Oliver's lineage, documents Petland promised to send her, so she started making calls.
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Wilms
(26,795 posts)Adopt! And with the $2200 that's left over you can make a donation to the shelter.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)Our dog is a rescue and is an amazing girl. It even sounds like the shelter made a better guess about her main breed and future size than this "breeder's" guarantee!
I am not against dog breeding, good breeders are just about the only way to avoid the potential health issues of a pediatric neuter, which makes me worry about our girl a lot!
Another thing we need more of is pet deliver people who move good but unwanted dogs from cave man states like mine, to places where they will immediately find a home.
And the designer dog craze enables puppy millers to rip people off in a whole new way.
mnhtnbb
(31,411 posts)Our best dogs have all been from shelters or rescue organizations and cost $200.--tops--
most of which is funding the time the animal spent at the shelter or in foster care and cost of spay/neuter.