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Originally Posted by jencar98  She arranged shipment of someone's yorkies to a pet store, it wasn't just her shipping account. There were numerous shipments, the documents were shown here. And, although Nancy, you posted this is destroying a good breeder because of "one facet",is this not a rather large facet? As I said before the mantra of this site and every reputable breeder I've ever talked to is "DO NOT but a puppy from a pet store". So, we are not to buy from them, do not sell to them, but it is alright to ship another breeders puppies to a pet store? Is that not hypocrisy? If she ships them to a pet store - will not someone buy them from that very same pet store? 
In her very own words she claims "that you cannot like the breed, but must LOVE the breed" and that she is a "breeder and fancie" and "I have dedicated thirty years of my life to this breed". Her having stated the above, as a fancier, in love with and dedicated to this breed she was well aware that what she was doing went against a breeders code of ethics, and chose to do so regardless.
If it were one shipment, one mistake and then she changed her practices it might be different. Numerous shipments of yorkies (debatable as to whether or not they were hers), her and her boyfriend's sale of the sick Frenchie, and her sale the liver shunt yorkie, I would say these are all serious mistakes and can not be ignored.
Just because some members here have bought from her in the past, are considering buying from her currently or in the future, or that she has been a colleague in the show world, that relationship with her, doesn't make what she has done okay. Think about it - if this were someone besides Glenda, someone not very well known in the yorkie show/breeder world, you all know you would be condemning her. Please have the courage of your convictions! |
Here's her words, from a previous thread:
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. . .In regards to the health certificates in question…I have been friends with the owners of Puppy Love for years and occasionally, when asked, would pick a dog up for them and ship it for them (again, NOT mine). I make no money from doing this and do it only out of friendship for them. I have nothing to hide. They have their business, and I have mine…end of story. . . Post 25 http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/bre...e-issue-2.html.
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I think we all have different standards on what's important in a breeder. Some people say they would never buy from a breeder who smokes; others say that they would never buy from a breeder who uses crates. These are their decisions, but I look for things, that are affecting the future of the breed, such as breeding to standard, and breeding healthy dogs. Humane breeding conditions are extremely important to me, and are the number one priority, for I would rather see a byb selling dogs that weren't to standard, than the puppy miller selling dogs that have kept in horrendous conditions. So we each make these decisions when we are looking for a breeder. I just think it's important to get the facts straight when we are discussing someone's breeding practices, and from reading this thread, I know many people thought she had sold her dogs to the pet store, and this simply wasn't true. To some of you this is a minor detail, but it isn't to me. It just seems to me if this is the worse thing she's done, she isn't all that bad. Truthfully, it isn't the fact that a pet store is selling puppies that outrages me, it the fact that most of these dogs come from puppy mills and that what outrages me. I'm all for people who have high standards when it comes to supporting quality breeders, I just think that there are so few perfect breeders out there and that we must put things into perspective.