Is he (Koda) a REAL Yorkie??
is the question i got asked today at PETCO by an employee. I said "well he is breathing isn't he"? A bit ticked off that someone would ask. The guy said, "well he doesn't look like a yorkie should look". He asked how old he was, how much he weighed and how much I paid for him and from who & where i got him from!! WTH? I told him in an obviously snotty tone that he was 3 mos old and weighed about 3lbs 10 oz. He then said" ohhhh so he isn't a real one, real ones wouldn't be that big at that age". "You sure got ripped off if you paid over $200 bucks for that one" "Who is your breeder and I will put the word out not to buy from him, his dogs aren't real, and other people don't need to get ripped off like you did."
OH MY GOSH, I was freaking pissed at this point, I couldn't even think of what to reply to him! How dare someone say that to me?! Especially at a pet store, ~*~Petco, where the pets go~*~. Is this their slogan so they can try and humiliate people when they bring their pets in with them???
I then told him to get away from me and I walked away. He went over to another guy and must have told him what just happened and they started laughing really loud. As I rounded a corner from picking up a few toys for the YT raffle the other guy was standing there. he said "were not trying to be mean we are just curious as to why you would say he (Koda) is a purebred Yorkshire Terrier when obviously he is not." I said "Well he sure looks like it to me. He matches everything so far on the AKC standard requirements" The the guy asked if I had papers on him from the breeder. i said "of course I do, they will be filled out online next week." "why do you 2 keep harassing me about my puppy?" He laughed again and said "the papers prob wont work, AKC papers are for purebred dogs and you being an obviously 1st time Yorkie buyer have no clue what you are doing."
By this point I just want to punch the guy, but that would have required putting Koda down and I WAS NOT GOING TO DO THAT!
So I said "you kids can think what you want, I really don't give a damn. And by the way here is a cart full of things you can go put away because I refuse to be interrogated and humiliated in a pet store. And Oh ya by the way, I won't be back And i will be letting the word of what happened here get around town, maybe a nice little letter to the editor. They just stood there with an
h s**t: look on their faces. As I was uncontrollably shaking I managed to pick up a customer comment card at one of the registers on the way out. God, I couldn't get out of their fast enough. I ran holding Koda so tight against me to my truck and just sat there and cried. How can people be so cruel? I know Koda doesn't have that sweet little baby doll face and all, and he is steadily gaining weight, but he is my healthy little Koda and I love him so much! I guess from having 3 human children I really have that overprotective motherly instinct in me.
I think stores need to screen their employees a lot better. That was straight mental distress for me in there. and I am sure Koda could sense it too. I don't take well to constructive criticism, but I don't see anything wrong with Koda.
Do you guys?
Puppies are like human. None of them look the same!!
This has upset me all evening to the point where I have been going through every thing about Yorkshire Terriers that I could on the web. To me he is a purebred Yorkshire Terrier with his full AKC papers waiting to be done online next week. What else should a "REAL" Yorkie be or need or look like???????
Thank goodness we have a PETSMART in our town also. Guess I will be going their from now on.
SCREW PETCO! and their mean vicious stupid employees!
I am going to add though. If anyone from looking at my babies pics or have read about him sees something not right about him, would you please be kind enough to tell me? I want to know and learn all I can about my Koda. And yes he is our 1st Yorkie, we came into the Yorkie world very green and uneducated. We learn from our mistakes I guess. Not that Koda was in any way a mistake to me. He had opened a space in my heart that had been closed for over a year and a half since my beloved 19 year old cat Mittens had to be put into his final sleep.
I am just emotionally drained right now.
thanks to anyone who got this far, sorry it was so long. I really needed to get it out and see what other opinions are on my Koda Bear. This crap has been making me think about our new baby girl on her way. Did I do somehitng so wrong that I am not meant to be a yorkie Mom?
