[Wolfstar]

We're accustomed to thinking in terms of drug smuggling and trafficking in human beings, but even the most innocent among us are smuggled across our borders. They are sold to soft-hearted Americans for several hundred dollars apiece only to die shortly afterwards.

[Wolfstar]

Hi "Hair." Calling this article about puppy smuggling to your attention in case you want to ping your Doggie list.

[BubbaBobTX]

Doing the jobs that American dogs won't do.

[kinoxi]

just killing the puppies Americans won't kill

[2banana]

McConkey said she bargained with the Mexican woman selling the puppies, and eventually she and her husband paid $300 for both after being assured they were purebreds and had received the initial inoculations from a veterinarian in Tijuana, just across the border.

Some Americans are pretty stupid...

[x1stcav]

I don't buy Mexican puppies or Mexican produce. This is my counter-boycott...modest though it is.

[End Times Sentinel]

she bargained with the Mexican woman selling the puppies

inoculations from a veterinarian in Tijuana

Most of the greatest tragedies in my life have involved these two phrases.

I didn't have the courage to read further and determine the outcome.

[vetvetdoug]

Why go to Mexico? West Tennessee and Northeast Mississippi have hundreds of puppy mills with sickly mange infested puppies to ship to unsuspecting fellow citizens. The USDA turns a blind eye to the mills in this area. There are flea markets in the area, First Mondays, as they are called where one can see scabies infested, sickly, and heartworm infested dogs for sale from all over the country. Ironically, there are research dog buyers to get the older dogs at these events and leave the puppies for the animal lovers.

[HairOfTheDog]

I guess living as far from Mexico as I do, I'm surprised the ~Mexican~ puppy issue is a ~bigger~ problem than the basic issue of people failing to get puppies shots, no matter where they are from. Puppies bought or rescued from cardboard boxes in parking lots often have Parvo no matter where they come from. And Parvo is a brutal way to watch a puppy die.

Please, everyone, don't expose puppies to the world without their shots. Parvo is everywhere, not just Mexico.

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[poobear]

Wolfstar, with much regret I ask that you remove me from your ping list. Regards, Poobear ( my Yorkie Poodle Terrier)

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

What kind of a nitwit buys "purebreds" from a woman in a parking lot?! Good grief!!

Poor dogs, though. If people weren't total idiots and kept buying these poor animals, this practice would cease.

[Grendel9]

$300 for two puppies she was
ASSURED were pedigree and had
innoculations...by a woman
selling them ON THE STREET?
Never asked for papers...for the
puppies OR the woman?

Ok...still one being born every minute,
Mr. Barnum!

[brytlea]

Really sad stuff (especially for the puppies). However, how stupid do you have to be to pay $300 for puppies from someone out of a box in a parking lot? Why would you imagine anything they told you was true? The consumer gets what they deserve, I suppose, but the poor dogs do not.
susie

[darkwing104]

Being the proud owner of a Cocker I have to say I am now more pissed off then ever...Build the wall now.

[shield]

They're not necessarily smuggled in from MX...they're stolen in the US and sold in the US. I lived in El Paso for a short time and had a full blooded beautiful Alaskan Malamute. He had gotten out of the backyard and was laying on the driveway. I was out...when I came home he was gone. I knew he'd have never left on his own. Then the next day I saw a truck driving around my neighborhood with 2 mexicans in it. In the back of the truck were dogs. So I ran out of my house, jumped in my car and chased them. They knew I was on to them, so:

They let my dog go...he was too far from home to find his way home. I ran an ad in the paper and someone called about a week later, a Mexican couple. She wanted me to come pick him up cause she couldn't afford to feed him. When I got there it was my dog and the place he was at was south of where I lived and further east. He had tried to find his way home but over shot it and was too far south. Besides, her husband had seen him knew he was a great dog and picked him up. The moral of this story is...they steal dogs and resale them to other Americans...those dogs are not necessarily born in Mexico.

[Spiff]

Dr.Demento Lyrics - Dead Puppies



Dead puppies, dead puppies,
Dead puppies aren't much fun

They don't come, when you call
They don't chase squirrels at all
Dead puppies aren't much fun

My puppy died late last fall
He's still rotting in the hall
Dead puppies aren't much fun
No, no, no

Mom says puppy's days are through
She's going to throw him in the stew
Dead puppies aren't much fun

Dead puppies, dead puppies,
Dead puppies aren't much fun
Dead puppies, dead puppies,
Dead puppies aren't much fun

Dead puppies, dead puppies,
Dead puppies aren't much fun






(I'm Looking Over) My Dead Dog Rover


I'm looking over my dead dog Rover,
That I over-ran with the mower.
One leg is missing the other is gone.
The third one is scattered all over the lawn.
No need explaining the one remaining
It's splattered on the kitchen door.
I'm looking over my dead dog rover,
That I over-ran with the mower.




Happy Boy

One day my dog got hit by a truck
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
Stuck his guts in a box and stuck it in my drawer
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba

Cuz I'm a happy boy (happy boy!)
I'm a happy boy (happy boy!)
Ain't good when things are going your way...hey hey?

Forgot all about it for a month and a half
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
Looked in my drawer and I started to laugh
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba

Cuz I'm a happy boy (happy boy!)
I'm a happy boy (happy boy!)
Ain't good when things are going your way...hey hey?



< ducking >

[djreece]

Thank you for posting this important, eye-opening article. But I have to differ about "soft-hearted Americans." In my view, they are either fools or greedy jerks. What kind of person spends that kind of money buying a dog in a parking lot and expects it to be purebred and healthy? Rescue a dog from the shelter or a rescue group or buy from a reputable breeder.