Why Did This Puppy Have to Die?

Even with the best intentions, sometimes you just can’t tell what people will do. In this case it cost my dog his life.

When I sold a sweet 8-week old Staffordshire Bull Terrier puppy called Fudge to a person who — unbelieavably — works as a dog trainer advertising the fact she can help other owners with their dogs’ challenging behaviour. I really thought I had hit the jackpot for the little darling. In a world where so many staffies end up in shelters or worse because people don’t understand the breed or buy it for the wrong reasons, here was someone who, as she put it, “really knew her stuff.”

Less than four months later, she chose to put Fudge down, without ever giving him the chance to be rehomed.

The blog post which told me what had happened has since been taken down from her website. In spite of the fact that her friends and family defend her actions and have been atacking me on social media to say that killing a five-month-old pupy was the only possible course of action left to her, she obviously does not feel confident enough in her actions to stand by them publicly, and has since tried to remove these posts from Medium as well.

However, if you can bear it (I know it took me quite a few tries before I made it all the way through and could actually see through my tears) you can read the original post here…