
I vetted a dog for our breed rescue a couple of years ago because the family wanted to rehome it. I went and met them and the dog, and at the same time I had to pick up the 'pedigree' and Vacc certs to send back to rescue.
Looking at the pedigree, (if thats what you could call it!), Parents, Grandparents and GGrandparents were all just written as their own names, not a KC name in sight. It may as well have been written on loo paper for what it was worth. The owner told me the dog was a good pedigree.
I asked where they had him from, and they told me they'd met a lady in a car at Bristol Services, and she had 7 puppies with her. 3 other families turned up at the same time and took a puppy each from this woman. Apart from this sheet of paper, they walked away with the puppy and nothing else after handing over the money.
It wasnt until they got home and looked at this puppy properly, they realised his tail was docked and that it was bleeding and a right mess. They took him to the Vet who discovered the bone was showing from the end had to amputate it further as it was infected. He reckoned when the tail had been docked but whoever did it, had done it when the pups were a good few weeks old :(
Fortunately in the dogs favour, he was very friendly and was rehomed to a lovely family very quickly.
I dont know how these people sleep straight in bed at night. :( It infuriates me that responsible breeders who pay alot of money for health checks on their dogs prior to breeding in the hope they produce the best puppies, then maybe end up losing bitches and pups when they have to have emergency C sections etc, and people like these who do not care a hoot about health testing, whether bitches are old enough etc, just sell puppies like they are going out of fashion purely for the money. Then its always left for somebody else to pick up the pieces when things go wrong with these dogs.