STUPID PEOPLE!!!!

I hate uneducated, selfish, money hungry STUPID backyard & puppymill breeders. I've worked with our local Pug rescue now for almost 6 years and I thought I'd seen it all but apperently I've only scratched the surface. I'm helping our rescue director out while she goes on vacation (which is LONG over due) and she needed to place a some pugs in some temporary foster homes (currently there are a little over 30 in just our rescue alone). Of course I agree! Anyway....she wanted me to foster Simon. He's a puppymill boy....overbred.....not properly cared for...etc., etc., etc...... Well turns out his jaw is pretty much mush and all the bottom teeth were rotten & he had TWO husk like teeth proturding from the bottom which prevented him from eating properly. This guy is only six. There was a forced sale of dogs from a kennel that owed over $50000 in fines with 300+ dogs. Two pugs were pulled thank God. Simon was one of them......I went to meet our transport & went to pick up & he just froze! He's sooooo scared! He couldn't really eat anything with his mouth the way it was and cannot close it all the way. Well Gail, got him, took him to the vet and got him all fixed up. He will forever have "rubber jaw" as the vet called it but at least now he's eating soft food and will start getting treated the way a pug (or any dog for that matter) should be treated!!!
This is what an uncared for puppymiller looks like....it's not something the humane society or rescuers make up....it's REAL, it's happening EVERYWHERE not just in hick towns, not just the amish...but everyday ordinary people who think it's cute to have puppies or do it for the money! Now don't get me wrong I know there are plenty of quality, RESPONSIBLE breeders who follow the law, care for their pets & make sure that their lineage of their bred is kept in tact NOT just because it's cute to have puppies!!!! Or just to have one liter to see what they'll look like. Meanwhile, thousands of healthy, abandoned dogs get put down because someone BOUGHT a puppy! I'm sick and tired of it..............it really DOES have to stop. TOO many innocent animals pay the price for our selfish needs.
This is the outcome of the "wanting" cute puppies and money hungry humans...




This is what is what HE has to deal with for the rest of his life......was it worth it??


**steps off her soap box now**

Simon is up for adpotion & I know he's an extreme case but it's reality. He does need some house manners but that is only because he has been kept in a crate all his life ONLY to be let out for breeding. He's sweet & with time, patience, encouragement & love he will make a great Pug. I'll be working on him & hoping we can bring him out of his shell. I see it already...he sniffed Olivia and she laughed at him. Even she sees his potential.

He's ready for someone to love him unconditionally & help him sit up with confidence that he's not ever going to be hurt again.