An answer for you and everyone who may wonder ... I did talk to administrator of Yorkie Talk before posting here just to make sure it was the way the site works.I was advised by the administrator to post an answer here. Not to clarify specific to whom started the post, but to put in the open our side of the situation.
We do have an adoption contract to protect the puppy we adopt out, to protect us and to protect the person who is taking any one of our puppies home. We mainly want any of our puppies to be well cared for and be treated well, with respect and love and be part of their FOREVER families. We do care about the health and well being of the puppies born onto our hands. And we also care and cherish the families that get to bring any of these special doggies to their home and into their lives. We build up a relationship with everyone who gets to add one of our "babies" into their family. We do not want anyone "stuck" with a puppy they can no longer love or care for , so we are as strict as a shelter about not allowing our puppies to be rehomed, but be returned to us to make sure we know the whereabouts of our puppies at all times. They all need to come back to us, healthy or not and we will take good loving care of them. Also we do have a health guarantee just in case if something unavoidable by breeding choices happen to make sure our adoptive families get to enjoy a healthy dog and fall in love with the breeds we love.
Unfortunately despite trying our best and asking so many questions, sometimes even calling vet references before committing to send a puppy home this situation still happened to us. And for so many years we had a very strict policy about not allowing any type of breeding rights to anyone that we did not knew personally and had already built a relationship with.
We made an exception to this person and that was a mistake. Mainly because she had a long history of breeding other animals, her bunnies, and her family also had some breeding experience on larger breeds. After so many conversations over the phone and so many questions on both sides, this lady came over to meet the puppy we had available that could perhaps balance the male puppy she was getting. Based on her information it did make sense. She was looking for an ACA registered female like her male. And by the time she did not seem to care to the fact the male she bought could turn out not to be able to breed, in which case she did ask if we would have a male that could be bred in case she decided to breed the female and in case her male turned out not to be suitable. She came over, saw the female before committing. we both agreed to the adoption. We both signed the contract together. Also it is true that the puppy she adopted is a "stud pay" and she knew that from day one.
I came to know about her postings here in YT through someone else who has one of our puppies... well, dog at 6 years old.
I still do not think i misread any signs on the fact that this lady can be and will be a good pet owner.
This whole situation only proves that we should keep been strict about not giving breeding rights to anyone. After she brought her puppies home she e-mailed me saying that they seem to look quite different, as we know yorkies can look different specially as puppies. She had previously described her male to me. By her descriptions i pictured her male as having very short legs, bulky head and lots of cottony hair. Again, at the time our female seem to make sense to be a possible match for her male if she was ever to decide to breed them once in her life as she wanted, but she left it clearly that she wanted both of them, male and female to primarily be her pets.
She obviously is not a predator breeder and she expressed that she may decide to breed them in the future and wanted the option to do so "in case" she decided to.
She started e-mailing some very weird e-mails. Short, impolite and offensive, shortly after she brought the puppy home. I will never start to argue and i did not continue the arguing. At some point she mentioned that the female was not a yorkie but a chihuahua , she asked on the e-mail and we did confirm that we have no dog of that breed. She did a DNA test and after that she e-mailed me about the papers. She got the dogs papers and she was not happy as she wanted it to be in her name. All she has to do is pay the transfer fee of the dog ownership. I called ACA and that is 17.00 dollars for the transfer fee.
Every time she e-mails she seems to be looking for an argument.
I read all her posts about this situation. To anyone who may care to read them back you will find out what she wrote and you can make your own conclusions. By reading it my self at some point it seems like she wanted a show dog. Although when she first contacted us she never mentioned she was looking for a show quality or show prospect puppy. other way, she made it clear her intentions were never to show.
I am sorry i placed the puppy with an altered contract allowing breeding her even just for once or twice. This whole thing would never had happened if i had not allowed it on the contract. I hope by posting this it can be not experience for my self but for others. That is the lesson i get from all of this.
Again, i do not think this lady is a bad pet owner or will not care for animals and neglect them. but if she proved good enough to be a pet owner i should have read that. I would have avoided a lot.
I am not running away from answering any of her e-mails, but i will not get into arguing.
At some point in her postings on the other thread she mentioned that she is not willing to return her dog, also she mentioned that she would very much like to have her money back and still keep the dog. Well, whoever takes the time to read this can also have their own conclusions. I am not going to suggest anything else based on her statements here, privately she never mentioned anything to me by either phone or e-mail.
I Hope this posting will bring some light to whoever is interested.
And for you, ( ...) i hope this answer in the open will bring some light to your end of the situation.
I would never be sorry i placed one of our puppies with you... however i am sorry i allowed the breeding possibility, i am so very sorry i did it. You are so new at the whole yorkie owner and everything that is involved you said one thing and afterwords expected something else. I can not go back in time, if i could i would never have agreed to it.
I wish and pray all well and good with you. I also hope that you will be true to your statements and keep taking the best care of these yorkies that you have. They are special creatures. A true gift from the Lord to show us unconditional love. If anything ever makes you change your mind you know that she will ever have a home to come back to, well, any yorkie will ever have a home in our home. I am glad you found YT. There are so many yorkie lovers here. You have a lot to learn from them. I will be glad to answer any of your e-mails as long as it is a civilized non-arguing one. I wish things never had this turn, do not understand how it happened as it seems to be a very long story with many outside opinions... and many others involved that are not even yorkie owners... but it did happen.
Please take this public answer as a proof of our willingness to keep in civilized contact, after all you do have one of our yorkies.
Thanks a lot to all who took the time to read this!
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