Update on Dead Puppy Case
Sabrina Yeap, the Animal Inspector for the SPCA, says that she has received numerous calls from pet owners after the article about the dead puppy at The Wonderful World of Pets store appeared in The Star earlier today.
According to Yeap, many people who bought puppies from The Wonderful World took them home only to find that the puppies were seriously ill. When they complained to the store, the staff referred them to a particular vet connected to the business. Apparently, Dr. X informed the unhappy buyers that their puppies suffered from a "genetic viral" condition that was untreatable and -- here's the key point -- not the responsibility of the seller.
That would be the same mysterious "genetic virus" that Lewis Tan, director of The Wonderful World of Pets, said caused the death of the poodle pup. Yeap says she's never heard of such a thing. Neither have I, neither have my books on veterinary medicine. I don't know what a genetic virus could be...although I suspect what Tan's puppies suffer from is parvovirus, which, as I mentioned in my previous post, is deadly and infectious. With poor standards of sanitation and animal care, it would spread easily in a confined space like the pet store.
Yeap is still gathering information to use in her investigation of Tan's business practices. If you bought a puppy from The Wonderful World of Pets and it had health problems, please let her know. Contact Sabrina Yeap at the SPCA.
According to Yeap, many people who bought puppies from The Wonderful World took them home only to find that the puppies were seriously ill. When they complained to the store, the staff referred them to a particular vet connected to the business. Apparently, Dr. X informed the unhappy buyers that their puppies suffered from a "genetic viral" condition that was untreatable and -- here's the key point -- not the responsibility of the seller.
That would be the same mysterious "genetic virus" that Lewis Tan, director of The Wonderful World of Pets, said caused the death of the poodle pup. Yeap says she's never heard of such a thing. Neither have I, neither have my books on veterinary medicine. I don't know what a genetic virus could be...although I suspect what Tan's puppies suffer from is parvovirus, which, as I mentioned in my previous post, is deadly and infectious. With poor standards of sanitation and animal care, it would spread easily in a confined space like the pet store.
Yeap is still gathering information to use in her investigation of Tan's business practices. If you bought a puppy from The Wonderful World of Pets and it had health problems, please let her know. Contact Sabrina Yeap at the SPCA.
posted by Pyewacket at 8:19 PM
4 Comments:
Well, everyone knows you shouldn't buy pets from a pet store... don't they?
Apparently not, which is sad. Let's hope someday everyone DOES know, and pet store abuses will be nothing but a black mark in history.
my opinion as I worked in a pet store before is that, however much you clean the damn space, there would still be virus lurking, sorry to say.
it's just a pity that the owner took back the animal to the store, when he/she could have sent it straight to a nearby vet to have it treated asap.
There's no such thing as a genetic virus, surely??? That's an oxymoron even.
Cyber-red is right about viruses lurking. Cat-flu viruses are extremely difficult to get rid of.
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