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That night, the puppy, Bibi, was throwing up, had diarrhoea and was very lethargic so she took him straight to the vet, who said he was severely dehydrated, malnourished and only five weeks old.
"I'm now having to fit vet bills that I shouldn't have to be. So instead of a nice new puppy and doing all the training I'm having to nurse him back to health."After a week I thought, 'I can't do this, I'm going to give him up', but the girls said, 'we can do this' - they kept me going. "Alarm bells were going but I didn't make the right decision. If I was on my own, maybe I wouldn't have taken him."Dr Scott Miller, Bibi's vet in Isleworth, southwest London, said the lockdown has had"massively negative effects" on puppy purchases and the increase in prices means puppies are leaving their mothers too early - all for money.
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