I saw an advert today for a free to good home of one of my most favourite dogs, 9 week old blue merle Border Collie! I quickly walked away without taking the number but it took huge willpower and I am fairly sensible! I hope it isnt taken on a whim to someone who cant afford to look after it properly:rolleyes:

Blimey, if it were me I think I'd have a new edition by now :D I spent all day yesterday looking at collie websites

Perhaps its Fate!!!!!! go & see him!!!!!

i know if it wasnt for hubby I probably would have been more tempted! but 2 dogs is my limit and one is only 7 months old!

Well done! It is so hard, isn't it?

I spoke to a woman recently who had bred two litters of pups (same breed as me) without Hip Scoring or eye testing either parents. Both litters had 8 pups. Some people came to see me abotu a puppy and they had gone to see this woman first. They said her pups were kept in a kitchen of about 3ft x 4ft maximum and were all covered in poo and wet, not let out in the garden or anything. They were 5 weeks old and there were only 12 puppies left there, so either 4 had died or been re-homed already.

As if that wasn't bad enough, I saw the same woman advertising one of her two bitches (so Mum to one of the litters) to be re-homed a couple of days ago. She was only 13 months old. It said she was 'in your face, loves to be on the sofa and bed', which I read as 'not trained or walked enough'. The ad also said 'pet only, papers won't be passed on' which if it wasn't so sad would have been hilarious. I rang her up as I would have taken to bitch myself, I felt so sorry for her. She had already gone to her new home! The pups are only 6 weeks old now!

It absolutely disgusts and saddens me.

At least that bitch is saved from any more litters! :-(

Who knows, the new owners may continue to breed from her.

jackson your post made me laugh as the 'loose' description of a dog and/or it's behaviour reminded me of an ad in the local paper a few weeks ago. 

i phoned up the man to query his 'wolf cross husky' 'direct descendant' dog and had to bite my tongue from asking if the wolf came from the zoo - did he get permission to put his in season husky into the wolf enclosure or do it under the cover of darkness! :rolleyes: 

I was a bit more subtle than that and eventually conceded that he had seen the dogs grandparents and they weren't the wolf but it might have been the grand parents grand parents - would that be great great grandparents.   It was a struggle not to either laugh at him or tell him what an irresponsible idiot he is for trying to sell a wolf/husky cross as a pet.  I eventually declined and said I didn't think it was the dog for me but I'm sure with his loose description of the dog as a wolf some mug will have taken it.

I too would laugh at an advert for a wolf cross . at one time . but i lived in ireland and was asked many a time if i would put my husky to a wolf (laughed and said no thanks and thought they were all crackers as no one has wolves as pets in the uk and ire,)untill i watched the news one night and they showed two wolves that had been taken from a council  estate in ireland and been put in a zoo/type animal park. but i do now wonder how many wolf hybrids are in the uk and ireland.

theres an advert in a paper here for a litter somewhere in tayside