Imported puppy dies days after arrival

[Catherine]

A woman in Ontario wanted a particular type of puppy. She searched she found an online site that sold her a puppy to be flown in from South Korea. The puppy was supposed to travel with someone and not be shipped in the cargo hold of the plane. She paid $3000.00 for the puppy.
He was fine at first and then within days the puppy was seriously ill. Even with treatment he didn't make it.
The puppy was younger than they thought so he was separated from his mother too soon. He also was probably alone and uncared for in the cargo hold the whole trip. That is too long for a young puppy.


https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-woman...-1.4789370

Very likely the puppy came from a puppy mill. Since profit is their motive, selling a too young puppy would not bother them. Shipping in the cargo hold is cheaper. There is no way a puppy mill would send a person with the puppy on such a long and expensive flight.
Return airfare is probably more than the cost of the puppy. 

Buying animals online can be a problem. There is no way to check out the breeder and be sure that it is not a puppy mill. Buying a puppy that way just encourages puppy mills to stay in business. When you buy that way you have no way of knowing that you are getting what you paid for. It might not have been a toy poodle. If it had lived it might have been a bigger dog. I have heard of people buying a hairless cat over the internet only to have the cats fur grow back. The cat had been shaved.

Buying animals online encourages things like this. Better to adopt a loveable dog from an animal shelter. She might even have found a poodle if she had searched a number of shelters. At least she would have a healthy happy pet now instead of a large vets bill and a broken heart.