"MARLEY" Puppies, AKC Purebred Yellow Labs. Born Dec 1st. Ready to go Jan 15th. Excellent Pedigree. 3 males & 3 females. $300 each.
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This is an actual ad from our local paper!
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"MARLEY" Puppies, AKC Purebred Yellow Labs. Born Dec 1st. Ready to go Jan 15th. Excellent Pedigree. 3 males & 3 females. $300 each.
This is an actual ad from our local paper!
This is an actual ad from our local paper!
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I'm sorry to hear that. 
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I had a yellow one (who looked just like him) and I currently have a black one.
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I am surprised that they aren't asking $600-700 for those 'Marley' look alikes...You can bet that those 'yella' dogs are going to become even more popular than they already are....will be interesting to see if there is an influx of yellows being handed over to shelters over the next 6 months to a year....
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And guess what, they will all act just like marley as well which is the reason they wanted a "Marley" dog, isn't it??????
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I would put money on it. I really feel for rescues and pounds right now. They have to know it's coming.
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I don't think I have ever seen labs advertised for more than $500 around here. Of course you know none of them have had any testing and you know they don't even know that exists! Get what ya pay for!
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I'm afraid there will be a lot of sweet yellow pups (dogs)
"thrown" out by folks who want Marley but won't be able
to handle Marley.....
"thrown" out by folks who want Marley but won't be able
to handle Marley.....
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It takes a special kind of person to handle all of Marley's issues. The movie glossed over his thunder and lightening issues, but the book went into great detail of the destruction he caused in each storm.
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Maybe you should ask if they come without hip sockets too.... of course they won't get that.
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Atleast AKC is doing their part! I just saw an ad on tv that AKC put out about Marley. It basically said be a good pet owner and research it before you buy a pup...
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It should have been at the movie, but wasn't. That's disappointing. People are looking for yellow labs because of that movie, that PSA would have been well placed during the previews.
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I got my first Lab because in college I'd walked one and decided it was a "good dog," though it wasn't good at all and pulled me down a hill.
When I could, I bought a Lab out of the paper ("excellent pedigree"); it was what I could afford. I knew the parents should have hip clearances... but at least the grandparents did. I knew it should probably be able to do what a Lab should do (just on principal), and the grandparents and great grandparents had titles. I worried about health, so I picked the biggest, liveliest bully in the bunch. It was the best I could do, and I just "had" to have a Lab.
He was my Marley, and I didn't have the faintest idea what I'd gotten into. He chewed the arm off a couch, chewed off the windowsills, tore off the floorboards; when I put him in the bathroom, he chewed and left marks on the plumbing. When he was tall enough, he dismantled the stove to lick out the drip pans. At some point my mother bought me a crate (I couldn't afford one--I was paying for apartment damage), because although she couldn't understand why I had this monstrosity she realized I wasn't getting rid of him. I was smitten, and he was a challenge when I needed one.
In an effort to get a handle on this horror I'd fallen in love with, I bought James Lamb Free's book. I read it compulsively, over and over again, even with all four corners chewed off. I still read it.
Whenever I had the chance my dad and I would walk fields (without a gun) and scare up birds. Strider could find pheasants and quail where there should have been none. Wherever I lived, I'd drive out alone to nowhere lakes and fields to throw bumpers for him. There was no water he wouldn't go in, and to this day the idea of a dog hesitating to dive into freezing water when there's something to fetch seems odd.
He was never trained in any sense of the word, but we eventually came to an agreement. He was my buddy from my early twenties to my mid thirties, through boyfriends and surgeries and jobs and moves, and I swore the next dog I got would be a Lab, and that I would "do something" with it.
People are going to get Labs--150,000 a year?--and if they get a Marley because in spite of the evidence they decide that a Lab is a "good dog"... well, a Lab might not be for everyone, but it IS a good a dog, and you just never know what it might lead to.
I'm personally not going to get all out of sorts about a "Marley Effect". I haven't seen the movie (can't/won't), but from what I could read of the book before the sobbing kicked in (it could only end one way), it made it it pretty clear that Marley was a terrible, terrible dog--if someone wants one anyway, maybe they see a bit of what so many of us fell in love with and they just don't know what they're seeing yet.
My newspaper bully puppy served me pretty well (in the long run)--though now I know better, I wouldn't change a thing. I suppose I was just lucky, but it can happen.
When I could, I bought a Lab out of the paper ("excellent pedigree"); it was what I could afford. I knew the parents should have hip clearances... but at least the grandparents did. I knew it should probably be able to do what a Lab should do (just on principal), and the grandparents and great grandparents had titles. I worried about health, so I picked the biggest, liveliest bully in the bunch. It was the best I could do, and I just "had" to have a Lab.
He was my Marley, and I didn't have the faintest idea what I'd gotten into. He chewed the arm off a couch, chewed off the windowsills, tore off the floorboards; when I put him in the bathroom, he chewed and left marks on the plumbing. When he was tall enough, he dismantled the stove to lick out the drip pans. At some point my mother bought me a crate (I couldn't afford one--I was paying for apartment damage), because although she couldn't understand why I had this monstrosity she realized I wasn't getting rid of him. I was smitten, and he was a challenge when I needed one.
In an effort to get a handle on this horror I'd fallen in love with, I bought James Lamb Free's book. I read it compulsively, over and over again, even with all four corners chewed off. I still read it.
Whenever I had the chance my dad and I would walk fields (without a gun) and scare up birds. Strider could find pheasants and quail where there should have been none. Wherever I lived, I'd drive out alone to nowhere lakes and fields to throw bumpers for him. There was no water he wouldn't go in, and to this day the idea of a dog hesitating to dive into freezing water when there's something to fetch seems odd.
He was never trained in any sense of the word, but we eventually came to an agreement. He was my buddy from my early twenties to my mid thirties, through boyfriends and surgeries and jobs and moves, and I swore the next dog I got would be a Lab, and that I would "do something" with it.
People are going to get Labs--150,000 a year?--and if they get a Marley because in spite of the evidence they decide that a Lab is a "good dog"... well, a Lab might not be for everyone, but it IS a good a dog, and you just never know what it might lead to.
I'm personally not going to get all out of sorts about a "Marley Effect". I haven't seen the movie (can't/won't), but from what I could read of the book before the sobbing kicked in (it could only end one way), it made it it pretty clear that Marley was a terrible, terrible dog--if someone wants one anyway, maybe they see a bit of what so many of us fell in love with and they just don't know what they're seeing yet.
My newspaper bully puppy served me pretty well (in the long run)--though now I know better, I wouldn't change a thing. I suppose I was just lucky, but it can happen.
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I read somewhere it took 20 some dogs to make that movie.
I'll let you know how many more dogs we are asked to take in about 8-9 months. That should be long enough for the dumping at the shelters to start. Unfortunately, our rescue group is and has been "FULL" for years. We can't adopt them out fast enough to make room for more. Sadly some don't make it out of the shelter.
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