Oh my gosh! Your so skinny!  

My boyfriend was trying to cheer me up yesterday, so he took me to the pet store to play with the puppies. While we were there, we decided to play with a little boxer puppy. She didn't look that skinny in her kennel, until they brought her into the room with us! The lady put her on the floor and I immedietly said, "Oh honey your so skinny!", the lady said that she was the perfect weight. What does she think we are, stupid? The poor dog was nothing but skin and bones. You could see EVERY single rib, and you could see the well defined lines of her skull bones poking on her little head. She was coughing a lot, and sneezing constantly, so I think she was very ill. I wanted to cry right then and there, and my boyfriend couldn't even stay in the room because he was so upset over it.

I picked her up, because she was even too weak to play, and just held her in my arms, even though she was covered in her own feces. She was so tiny, and I want to cry just thinking about it now. How can they let that poor animal live that way? I wanted to take her home with me, and take care of her, but I couldn't because they charge insane prices for their animals and my own dog wouldn't approve. They also claim they don't get any of their pets from puppy mills, that they are all locally bred animals, and none are from puppy mills. I don't believe them though, those poor dogs looked horrible.

That particular pet store has never been so bad before, they usually keep great care of the animals, and they never look sickly. I ended up being more depressed from going there than I was before I had even arrived!