[vanessa19]

Sorry I haven't been on in a few months I just graduated the police academy and actually am able to get on the computer!! Jasmine, the hubby and I are all great! But we went into a "pet store" (ugh, I hated it, but he wanted to look at their fish, we have a huge fish tank also) and I saw a Yorkie and was like aww he's so cute and wanted to play with him just because. but the lady was so intent on selling him to me (little did she know, I had no intention on buying him or any other animal right now, other than fish..lol) so she's telling me that is breeder is from Missouri and hes definitely not from a puppy mill and all this garbage but the name of the store is petland and i went on stoppuppymills website and there is something on there about puppy mills in missouri who sell to petland so it raised an interest in me. She said their "breeders" were inspected by the USDA and I was wonder two things, what types of inspections are they and is there anything I can do about this pet store, the last time I went in there they almost kicked me out because one of the puppies was sick and I asked what were they going to do with it and they didn't have a clue, I was ticked, and then one more thing, there was an 8 week old yorkie girl in there who was smaller than my hand (oh by the way the lady told me my yorkie was huge because she weighs 7 lbs) but the lady looking that the yorkie girl asked the employee do yorkies bark and I'm walking by at this point pissed and the employee says no, I have 3 at home and I never here them bark, I'm just like OMGosh are you kidding?? and I turned around and said "do babies s*it themselves, of course yorkies bark they are a dog...duh" and she gave me a dirty look and by that point hubby is like ok, it's time to go. Needless to say he is not aloud to buy fish there he was just looking for this specific one. But this place horrifies me! Please help is there anything I can do if they are buying from puppy mills, I'm almost positive they are, and what types of inspections does the USDA do? sorry this is so long thanks for all of your guys help, you guys are awesome!!