Survivor stories

Lola's Story - pet shop pup

I have always heard not to buy dogs from pet stores, but when I saw Lola she was the breed that I wanted and everything looked great to the untrained eye, so I thought why not. Lola had diarrhea for the first couple days, funny smell, bad fur, but was eating fine. Then she stopped eating and drinking so I was syringing water into her mouth.

Pippa's Story - pet shop pup

We purchased a papillion x maltese (Pippa) for $750 from a pet shop in Perth 4 weeks ago. Pippa passed away last Tuesday 21/10/08 in my arms at 6.20am. I only got three weeks of loving her.

Murphy's Story - pet shop pup

Murphy was one of a litter of 5. I would expect all his littermates are also blind. I only hope that the people who bought the other puppies didn't dump them when they went blind, and were committed to raising them for life, and to give them some sort of quality of life.

Lucy's Story - puppy farm mum

Lucy had probably never had a name. She was a puppy farm mom used to make Shitzu/Maltese crosses. She had many puppies. When her usefulness expired she was thrown out and left to die.

Lewis' Story - pet shop pup

That first night we handed him something to chew on, a pigs ear I think. We sat close to him and my husband went to pat him on his back when he turned around and absolutely ravaged his hand, drawing blood. This was a nine week old pup!

Kelsie's Story - pet shop pup

Showing signs of fear aggression at just 7 weeks, scared of men, food aggressive and anxious, Kelsie’s behaviour is typical of an undersocilised pet shop pup. Kelsie is one of the lucky ones...

Miss Adelaide and friends - rescued

She will never be a 'normal' dog due to the complete lack of socialisation and handling as a young pup that is so typical in puppy farms. She will, however, very slowly become used to living in a quiet, non threatening environment and I'm hoping that she will one day learn to trust just a little bit...

Adopting a puppy mill survivor (old breeding stock)

Every puppy mill survivor is different. What works on one or many, will completely fail on others; the only thing that is consistent is that they will need lots of patience, understanding, love, and most importantly, unconditional acceptance of who they are and what their limitations may be...