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Ага, вот красноречивая цитата из этой же статьи (ссылка в посте 3).

"For less scrupulous importers, money keeps this gravy train rolling. An importer can pay as little as $400 for a bulldog pup. The dog can fetch up to $2,500 in the U.S. For breeders and importers, sick and dead puppies are, it turns out, just the cost of doing business -- haggled over like damaged goods.

Complaints about receiving dead puppies were the focus of several emails between a California importer and a Russian exporter in 2004, a year in which the importer made 400-thousand dollars. One email is typical: "Now I'm out two dead Havanese and three dead English for a total of five you will not replace," the importer griped. "So, just send me the free replacements from the seven that dropped dead out of this last shipment."