Oh dear.
When my doggie died I wanted a companion for my other little dog as I did not want him to be lonely. I did not want a puppy, so I looked for a dog that was about a year old.
I saw an advert for a pug advertised as 12 months old and arranged to go and see her. The woman sounded nice on the phone. She said they both worked full time and could not look after her properly and wanted her to go to a good home.
When I got there, the dog was in a cage in their kitchen. They took her out of the cage and she ran out into the garden. She had teats hanging down. I asked them if she had had a litter and they said yes but only one. The man showed me one of the pups. It was a pug.
She was not a pug. She was a cross. I knew instantly. A full pug is either fawn or black. She is ginger. They told me they bought her from a breeder and was sold to them as a pug but they had no papers
They wanted rid of her because she had the puppies by section and they could not breed from her, not the reason she gave me on the 'phone.
Disgusting people.
I took her off them. She had not been exercised and her claws were like talons.
i took her to my vet who said she was older than a year and it looked to him like she had had three litters. She was a breeding machine for those bastards.
When I took her for a walk she had never seen other dogs and was very excited and jumpy for ages.
She is the nicest dog you could ever meet and now has a lovely life.
So many dogs being bred without papers and so many sad stories and not all of them have happy endings