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Originally Posted by gabbriellew  I am more than happy to be checked out. As I told the original poster, my reasons for no longer allowing anyone to come to my home is due to the fact that last year a yorkie breeder in Florida was murdered. A couple of show breeders that I know of personally have been brutally assaulted and dogs stolen. I also know of a rash of other breeders whose homes have been broken into and dogs stolen, most recently two weeks ago. I understand the desire to see where the dog came from, but I have a primary responsiblity to protect my dogs and my family. I am more than happy to give references and I apologize that I just haven't had time to do more with my website. I have very few puppies for sale as I do not breed very often and am extremely concerned that they have the best home possible. I have had buyers wait more than six months for a pup from me and I will not sell at all if I am not convinced that it is a good setting for the dog.
I do think that it is a very good thing to inquire as to other's experiences with a breeder but it may well be that with all the crazies out there, not to mention AR freaks, you will find that fewer and fewer of us will expose ourselves to that risk. If things keep up with all the legislation, you may not be able to buy from a small home breeder at all anymore. Only commercial breeders will be able to afford the increasingly onerous regulations and they are trying to eliminate puppies born in the house and raised in the house as it is.
Ruth |
hi Ruth,
I understand why you would not want "strangers" coming to your home to look at your precious puppies. However, what I do not understand is why you can't have a family member, husband or male friend, and man , at your home when a person comes to your place to see the puppies???
There are ways you can protect yourself, abd still allow people in to see your puppies. A good breeder needs to be as honest and open as possible . I feel like it needs to work both ways.
I would not be too happy if the breeder wants to come for a home visit, but WIll not allow me to go to her house for a home visit, and see the parents of the puppies.
To me, it looks like the breeder has something to hide. as I said before safety needs to be number one importance , I totally agree with that. However, there our ways that you can be safe , w/o totally cutting off perspective buyers from seeing the parents.
I just brought home an 8 week old Shih Tzu a few days ago. I took my brother , son and nephew with me to the breeders house. The breeder had her husband, and adult son there with her. NO problems, no issues. I got to see the MOM of the littler, and asked the breeder a ton of questions.
Seeing pictures is not the same thing as going to the breeders home , and "seeing" the parents, where the puppies are beig raised and cared for, and talking face to face with a breeder.