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Originally Posted by julietimothy  let me tell you something that I thought was the craziest thing and made me a little upset. When I started breeding I started with Goldens and Labs and breed them for 4 year & then got my 1st yorkie and maltese. I fell in love with this two girls that over the next year I desided to start getting out of breeding the Goldens and Lab and start with the maltese and yorkies. I post an ad online about the Labs and Goldens they are 6 years old and up on all shots, has always been on wormed and heartwormed med. So no medical problems at all. Was going to place them in pet homes with no papers for $25.00. I had a rescue group call and email me many times saying they could help me find them homes. They was so petty and they had people all the time looking for grown dogs like Goldens and labs that is good with kids. And my dogs loves kids. They said they would pay me the $25 fee. I went to their web site and they was going to make money off my dogs. They was going to Charge people $250 for a fee and that was not even to spay them. So they was going to come pick them up have have a adopion drive the next weekend and make $225 off of each dog. I told them no way, I wanted to know where they go and thought I could find them familys myself. I feel they say they get these dogs out of puppy mills but don't think they all come for puppy mills. I'm not a puppy mill, but on their web site they was downing all breeders, good, bad and the ugly. No breeders was good to them. But they was so nice to me on the phone, because they could make money off me. More likly they would have went back give some sad story about them being from a puppy mill and be lieing the hole time just to sell the dog. And that is what it is selling a dog when it is done like that. |
I did some detective work after we got our rescue Yorkie. I managed to find out what her breeding name was, the name of the breeder she came from etc. Then I was able to find out the vet that breeder used, and from them I found her health record. While the vet says this breeder is one of the more reputable breeders around, the rescue still had to get the dog some shots, spayed and her teeth cleaned as well as the basic health exam. So I know they invested money in her as well as feeding and housing her till we adopted her. Having worked in a vets office I know that these proceedures are not cheap, so I thought the adoption fee we paid was fair for a 4 year old.