Oh, stop it. They are sickly because of the way they have been treated in the case of puppy mills.
In the many cases of "this dog don't hunt" that I was talking about, there is nothing wrong with the dogs...except that their white trash owners don't find them "useful."
They spend their entire lives in kennels, getting some Ol' Roy thrown out every now and then...and I'm sure they are very excited to finally get out...happily following their owners out to the field; to be rewarded by a bullet in the head.
The same human debris also allow them to breed uncontrollably, and dump the puppies off out in the middle of country roads. Actually, that would be the classy white trash, the rest throw them in a bag and dump them in a lake.
Ah, the rural life, where the local Country Club had some members beat to death a bunch of Canada Geese with their golf clubs a couple of years back.
Thank God Shih-Tzu Rescue refused to give me the owner's contact information, or I would be in prison right now.