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Originally Posted by mscat  She was not judging you one bit.... Sorry you had so many problems with your precious little one. I know how special our little babies our to us. Buying from a pet store is the worst place to get a pup from, no matter what breed. I am certain you are not a "snob". And certain your learning just like the rest of us all are.
Nobody is perfect , and we all learn by doing. That is ok, it is human .A newspaper, actually, if u meet the breeder, go to their home, see the parents, ask the right questions, and such , things might just work out. It did for me.
I love my Suzi, but, that is how it worked for me. And I may have been just lucky. i hope youy baby will be ok, and healthy. I would'nt change a thing either by loving my Suzi and being her mom  |
No, I wasn't judging anyone or where they decide to get their fur baby. I just don't want anyone to pass up a great pet who needs a good home because they have an unsavory past or no health papers or you can't meet the parents. When we adopted our rescue we were told how long she'd been in foster care, how old she was and that she was a breeder release and she'd recently had her teeth cleaned and been spayed. She even still had her spay stitches in, we had to take her to have them removed. That was it, no health background, no parents photos or meet the parents, no health or pedigree papers. Sometimes you just got to go out on a limb and take a chance for these little unwanted fur butts. If not sadly they either go to bad homes or worse yet are put to sleep. I understand the heart break of bringing home a puppy that is sick. My first Bichon I had 13 days, I took him to the vet several times knowing something was wrong. When a liver shunt was diagnosed I had to return him to the breeder and she had to take him to the vet to be put to sleep. That's how I learned about back yard breeders. I learned at that time the father had only one testicle drop so he should have never been bred to start with. I had seen both parents before I bought my pup but I never knew to check for that of all things! We then bought a dog from a pet store thinking that was the place to go, well we learned a hard lesson there too. It breaks my heart when people say I don't want a rescue because of the baggage they bring. Well, I have baggage too.