🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4aotee$j2a@supreme.pcug.org.au>, sbaker@pcug.org.au (Shane Baker) writes:
|> tosca@dolphin.cs.adfa.oz.au (Crispin Russell) wrote:
|> 
|> >In article <4a7nda$5mj@wombat.melbpc.org.au>, barbaram@melbpc.org.au (Barbara Maple) writes:
|> >|>   
|> >|> You talk about the prices at the RSPCA   pet shops are much worse,
|> >|> Usually well over $100 and that does not include desexing or a 
|> >|> voucher for same whereas the RSPCA includes this,
|> 
|> 
|> >Speaking of bloody petshops, I understand from my wife that Bates Pets
|> >Paradise (an anachronism if ever I did hear one) in Tuggeranong, Canberra
|> >has had a golden retriever puppy in one of those glass cases (1m x 1m)
|> >for several weeks.  I'm not surprised it has been there for several weeks
|> >it has a price tag of $900 on it! 
|> 
|> Whya m I not surprised?  I've seem the same chain selling mongrels
|> from $250.  
|> 
|> (And, no - I'm not bagging mixed breeds.  Some of the nicest dogs I've
|> known have been heinz dogs.)

Indeed.  I've now confirmed, the retriever was in the Woden store, not 
Tuggeranong.

Tosca

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