Sometimes, you can love dogs too much. An unhealthy ambition to get into the canine-selling business lead 30-year-old kindergarten teacher Koh Wen Zhu to be fined a total of $6,000 for offences relating to running a frickin’ pet shop in his flat.
Koh had sold 10 puppies online over a seven-month period and even forged vaccination certificates, making them appear that they were legit approved by veterinarians, The Straits Times reports. His whole operation would consist of buying puppies and selling them online for profit, posting ads on websites such as Gumtree and Locanto. To escape detection, he would use fake names and different mobile numbers to sell the puppies to unsuspecting customers.
Unfortunately, him pretending that the dogs were vaccinated did nothing for the poor animals in real life. Customers that bought puppies from him quickly discovered that they were infected with canine parvovirus, a highly contagious viral disease characterised by lethargy, vomiting, fever and diarrhoea. Calls made back to Koh were not returned, and the owners had no choice but pay thousands of dollars in medical treatment for their puppies.
In court, the teacher was fined $4,500 for forgery and $1,500 for running a pet shop from his Punggol Drive home without a licence. He did pay back two affected owners $700 and $640, which doesn’t even cover the cost of treatment.
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