Drunk Puppy Buying, Who Would Have Thought?

Via Althouse, from DNAinfo: You've heard of drunk dialing and drunk Facebooking, but drunk puppy buying?
Inebritated passers-by are falling in love with playful pooches frolicking in the window of a West Village pet store, and the problem has become so bad the owner has banned them from taking the pets home.
"I feel like they always come in drunk," said Fernanda Moritz, the manager of Le Petite Puppy at 18 Christopher St. which has implemented a policy against letting customers buy — or even hold — animals if they've been drinking.
The shop is surrounded by bars, and Moritz said many of her would-be customers stop in after happy hour around 6 p.m.
"They come from there and say 'let's stop by to see the puppies,'" said Moritz.
Amazingly the store, which has supplied puppies to celebrities including Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Jackman, isn't the only one in the neighborhood forced to implement the ban.
Christopher Street's Citipups also forbids intoxicated customers from purchasing puppies.
Moritz recalled selling a Chihuahua some years ago to a woman she thought might have been drunk, only to have the dog returned the next day — in a near-dead state.
"We took it to the vet and he found five pills in the dog's stomach," she said. "It almost overdosed."
The Chihuahua's stomach was pumped, and it survived.
Now Moritz and her staff are always on the lookout for intoxicated customers and won't even let those they suspect are drunk hold the puppies to keep them from being dropped.
Moritz says the situation is an occupational hazard of working on a strip well known for bars and boozy brunches.
The adorable sight of furry faces in the window and the effects of alcohol can be a bad combination, Moritz said.
Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110705/greenwich-village-soho/drunk-puppy-buying-banned-by-west-village-pet-stores#ixzz1RItk7hxq
Yes, even sober, it is hard to pass up a cute little puppy, which kind of explains why we have 3 dogs in our household. Each dog has a formal owner and I get to love all of them.
So, beware, don't drink and buy ... puppies.


Cats, on the other hand...