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Originally Posted by wnalegria My concern was that we loose our objectivity. The big word was the
" may be". I would hate for a new person interested in the breed to see the words Credit Card/ Internet etc. and make as assumption that may not be true. My other concern was that I do not want a new pet owner to think anything that might go wrong with their puppy is the breeders fault and therefore the breeder is a puupy mill.
We should give suggestions to folks on some of the things to look for, and ask when interviewing a breeder. It would be informative to tell new owners some of the health issues and habits that yorkies have and what to look for. Notice I said interviewing in a previous statement - you have all the power -you can walk out the door and go elsewhere for a puppy. You should place as much time and research into the purchase of your new puppy as you would for any major purchase.
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Unfortunately there are people whom don't put much time or research into purchasing a pet. Unfortunately there are many bad breeders out there and people are buying from them. I guess I know of too many instances where people have purchased sickly dogs, dogs that have died, dogs that end up not being purebred and dogs not being within the standard as the owner had expected. That is one of the problems with internet sales. Many times the customer lives too far to check things out. You can run an internet site from anywhere and can make the site look great when behind the scenes things can be very bad. Here's a perfect example of a huge well known mill.
http://www.hollybellemaltese.com/index2.html
People saw beautiful maltese in the pictures..some pictures were pirated. Hollybelle had references from satisfied customers, pictures of her standing next to a "famous satisfied customer" everything "looked and sounded" good. Then people started complaining about not getting pups as promised, not getting papers or some kind of "mix-up" with the papers. People were getting sick pups, problems and complaints were coming from everywhere. This is not an isolated example..there's a whole plethora of problems out there.