Crufts aftereffects

[bunn]

I hear on the grapevine that the owner of that lovely bloodhound that made it to the final at Crufts, has been inundated with puppy sales enquiries from within a few hours of her group win. 

They are apparently  impulse buyers who have not even begun to think about the implications of owning a very large strong dog which drools mightily and tends to consider a new scent far more important and interesting than anything their owners have to say!

Luckily there are no puppies in the country at present.  I hope the interest dies down quickly before the puppy farmers can get involved.  Though sam tells me that some of them are asking 'oh, no blood hounds - do you do shar peis then?' 

!!!

I've always felt  that some people seem to buy dogs with all the deliberation they put into choosing a new doormat.   But a bloodhound!  Good grief!

Comments

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

That's sad :( I know the breed is endangered in the UK, but better it stays that way than be brought on an impulse and then ditched 6 months later. Even doggy people pale at the thought of a bloodhound, let alone your average beeb viewer.

[chainmailmaiden]

I've always felt that some people seem to buy dogs with all the deliberation they put into choosing a new doormat.

Sadly I think that's very true in many cases. We're still putting off getting our cats until we've got the house in a better state - we worry that we'd fail a home visit because of it at the moment. We also want to make sure we really can afford to keep them properly too and I can imagine the cost of keeping a couple of cats pales into insignificance when compared to a blood hound. Plus I also imagine blood hounds need an awful lot of exercise, which is another thing people also seem to forget when they get big dogs :-(

[bunn.livejournal.com]

It's very sad (and it makes you wonder if all breeders of all the finalist breeds will be so careful...)

When it comes to bloodhounds, I think there are excellent reasons for numbers of the breed to be very low. There just aren't many people that are equipped to offer homes to that kind of dog.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Makes a lot of sense, specially as you are still decorating. My sister's cats got very stressed when they were doing up their house.