For everyone who sells or buys a dog/puppy. Do you know if your State has a Puppy Lemon Law? If so, do you know what the guidelines are for it?
Research Puppy Lemon Law for YOUR STATE and see what you find, "some States do not have them".
Know your responsibilities as a seller and your rights as a buyer.
2006-07-24 14:31:14 · 4 answers · asked by renee_riley1 3 in Pets ➔ Dogs
The ASPCA has a list of Puppy Lemon laws for each state
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=cruelty_puppymills_lemon
2006-07-25 10:13:47 · answer #1 · answered by Danger, Will Robinson! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about your rights as a seller? I know someone who took an abandoned pup and sold it for $20 (she thought the pup would mean more if they had to pay something for it). Some months later the pup got sick and SHE ended up paying a couple thousand dollars for its Vet care, and they got to keep the puppy.
Lemon laws are all fine and good, to a point. But once that puppy leaves the breeders home, she has NO control over what they do or don't do with it.
I breed show dogs, and place puppies VERY carefully. But when the pet buying public puts less thought into buying a puppy than they do a refrigerator, IMO they get what they deserve. Plenty of info online about how to buy a puppy, if only the pet buying public could be bothered to actually research. If I buy a new couch, and it falls apart after a few months, should there have to be a law to protect me against my own stupid decisions? NO, I just learned a lesson and will do it differently next time. Shouldn't people put as much thought into buying a puppy that they do an appliance? If someone buys a puppy out of a box in a parking lot, well DUH, what should they expect. I am sick of yet more laws to protect people from themselves. Heaven forbid someone should actually THINK!
That said, I give refunds on puppies if it doesn't work out for any reason. But I sure wouldn't be very happy if I had to pay a few thousand dollars for vet care for a $500 puppy and then they also keep the puppy, especially when it is for something that THEY did/didn't do.
2006-07-24 20:28:22 · answer #2 · answered by whpptwmn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm sorry yet no. i did not understand there have been lemon guidelines for dogs. In my state there's a regulation you want to carry the pup on your vet and interior of seven days of purchase. If the pup is got here across to be unsound then you fairly have the right to go back the pup and the guy or position you obtain the pup from has to refund your funds.
2016-10-15 04:17:17 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very interesting. didn't find one for my state. or the surrounding states. I live in MS did you happen to see one for this state
2006-07-24 16:53:59 · answer #4 · answered by halfpint 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋