Saw a lady about a pup..... I went today and visited this lady, to meet her and the Sire and Dam of the pup for sale.
First question is what is a puppy mill?
What I saw.... an older lady who owns quite a bit of land, she owns roughly 5 miniture horses and 25 regular horses, outside it looked like a shelter, I've been to an animal shelter before, there were about approximately 7 pins lined up with about 3 to 4 dogs per pin, she had 4 breeds. The pins were clean the dogs seems healthy and happy, they looked a little dirty obviously becasue they are outside dogs, the yorkies had summer cuts, she had a seperate building "the nursery" there were 3 pins in there with two mama yorkies and pups and a very pregnant poodle. There was another building that she said was for her grooming she does, and then another building were in was pups that had access to the building and an outside pin, there were two poodles on one side and then a poodle and a yorkie on the other side. Like I said they looked healthy to me I petted most of the dogs and they actually seemed overfed not slinder at all. Now it smelled like dog and dog poop but I didn't see any anywhere, each pin had water bowls and food bowls and shelter from sun and dog houses, I did ask her if she lets them run free since I noticed her property was fenced in but she said "Oh no they would probably get out" so that kinda made me sad knowing that they are confined to a pinned area no bigger then a 4 door car size for life. Would this be considered a puppy mill? She said she had all papers on the pups and they are AKC, she is asking $800.
Should I stay away, should I ask more questions, what should I ask? Oh she did mention that she does keep some of the dogs inside she said one of each breed. hummmm don't know what to do, mom is about the size and color I am looking for, and dad also...But then again how do I know who the true dad is???? What do you all think? |