Mary, I am tears. We all are against pupymills and the lowlife that run them. We try to keep people from getting taken in by these criminals. However, to have gone to what you thought was a respectible breeder, and to be faced with such horror!! I can't even imagine!! You saw that little guy in such a mess; and even knowing that he may have had a disease, or other emotional problems from the life he had been born into, you could not leave him. You were the difference between a life of misery and possible death , and the sheltered life he now lives. You risked taking on the expenses of a puppy that was in terrible shape, because you are a good person. I wouldn't go to a puppymill knowingly, and Lord help me if I go to one accidently. I would have the police there, but she would have been the one calling them!! I would have taken every puppy I could have gotten into my car !! I am not a bad person but such filth and misery would drive me over the wall!!
You are a decent loving person, and I am proud to call you one of my Yt friends. Max is one very lucky little guy.