[nvnvgirl]

I kind of agree with everyone here. Britney is a very talented and very troubled young woman. She needs some guidance that isn't totally cash driven to help her. On the other hand...she went into a pet store, like almost all of us do, and she saw a darling little YORKIE and wanted it. She's got the money, she's got people to deal with it and even I'm sure, GIVE it to when she gets tired of it. I understand the problem with pet stores and puppy mills, but doesn't that little puppy deserve a good life too? Would you feel vindicated if it was euthanized or given to just anyone who would abuse it? I think that when you are so avid about something, and you've been "into" it for awhile, you know the drawbacks, but there's a LOT Of people out there that have NO IDEA what is going on behind the scenes. When I started out with birds, I had no idea the problem of smuggled parrots or any of that stuff....I bought the bird that I wanted b/c it was what I wanted and the price I could afford. It wasn't until many years later that I realized what a lot of these endangered species go thru and what it meant to be buying a "wild caught" bird....I was not my bird's first owner, however....but I know I gave that bird the best 19 years of it's life, at least if she had to be in captivity. You just do the best you can and sometimes we just don't have all the facts in front of us when our heart says "yes". So please don't be so harsh on her. If you want to diss someone , do it b/c she's got small children that she should be setting an example for, and at this point, she's not doing a very good job of that. I'm sure her animals have a chance to be much more well-adjusted.