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Originally Posted by scrapindee  Following the interesting thread posted by a Yorkie purchaser brought up some interesting thoughts for me.
I am sure if the question posted was: Did your breeder meet your expectations and complete the contract with you the buyer, a lot of the breeders would be surprised by the responses.
Secondly, I would ask the breeders, to ask them selves if they did all they could for the new buyer? Did they follow-up with their buyers? Do they know what those puppies weigh at 6 months, 9 months, a year???
So, did your breeder meet your expectations? Did he/she fulfull their contract with you? Did you do what you needed to do to complete your requirements? What would you have done differently?
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Emma's breeder met my expectations up to the "point of sale", and in hindsight, that's when I realized things weren't quite right...She didn't invite us in the house to see where the dogs were kept, she brought Emma outside with her mommy-it was a nice day. I didn't ask to go inside, but it seemed she was keeping me out. I never got another call, email, or letter from the breeder after I brought Emma home. I did call her a few times when we started the search for a new puppy, but ran into LOTS of questionable things when talking to her (she told me the new litter was accidentally multi-sired by a rat terrier and her stud, then later registered all pups as AKC yorkies because "she could just tell", she RAISED the price for the second puppy-why? I was a repeat buyer-shouldn't it be the same or go down? She wanted all puppies in homes at 6-7 weeks-BIG red flag!) I told her I'd think about it, and to call me in a week and we'd talk again. She never did, and I know after seeing the newspaper ad two weeks later that she had a hard time selling that multi-sired litter to people. I believe the puppies were mixed breed in the end.
Now, Milli's breeder was GREAT! I still keep in touch with her, we send pictures and info back and forth. She has 6-7 dogs, 4-5 of which are yorkies. She took one of Milli's sisters back after she had been placed in home because the sister had a genetic problem, and gave the family pick of the litter on the next litter she had. Before she sold to me, we went up to visit, and she asked for a small deposit. She asked LOTS of questions about where Milli would be going home to, about Emma, and about our training practices. She made me sign something that said I would vaccinate, and that I would not use collars, and said if for ANY reason I found I could no longer care for Milli, that she could be returned to her at any time for any reason. Now, that's a great breeder!