i never said this wasn't a great site, i love YT, but i have to admit there are some people that take things too far. you can't deny it either, there really are some people that don't let "sleeping dogs lie" and go looking for a way in which to stir the pot.
i was never trying to stir up something with this thread, i was just excited to have given my pup a new full name that i was proud of. instead of getting the positive words of congrats and that's a cute name, i got yet another forum that will probably have to be closed because yet again people got carried away and went too far and created a fight over nothing.
now some of you make think i'm the immature one because i'm young and a bit niave, but tell me, am i really the one starting all these wars here? i try hard to post nice things with positive words of encouragement and my threads are never ever intended to open a huge can of worms and start these big arguements. i think the immaturity lies in those that don't have enough self control to stop posting about a topic that wasn't even the key point of the original thread.
and it really does feel like some people are lying in wait for their next victim to slip up slightly in a thread so that they can be pounced on and "taught a lesson about not supporting puppy mills" well i can't speak for everyone i guess, but i'm not in support of those people. and when i talk about the little guy and the small town breeders, i'm not talking about the breeder Sadie came from, i didn't know him that well and i admit that, and no i didn't have a chance to see her home, i trusted him at his word, stupid, probably, but i got a healthy dog that is a blessing to my family and i'm proud of her and thankful to Marvin for his influence in creating her.
as for the small town breeders i'm talking about here, i know people up home personally who do incredible jobs with their puppies, they take care of all of them and the parents and are kind and loving to their entire kennel of dogs. they don't breed for show, they don't breed for breeder dogs, they are the heart and soul of the true "pet industry" which IMO is not the same thing as a puppy mill. i've commented on this subject before, not every single breeder with multiple dog breeds or more than a couple litters of puppies a year is running the horrifying puppy mills that you see on TV and commercials. in fact lots of those types of kennels are AKC registered and still have many puppies sold throughout a year. a kennel or breeder should honestly be judged on an individual basis. i agree with Nancy1999 on a previous post somewhere that ALL breeders everywhere should be checked out before purchasing a pup, you should go to the home of the puppy and see the conditions it was raised in. i also agree that AKC has higher standards than other registries, but according the breeder i got Sadie from, and yes this could be a big fat lie or excuse...(but i don't think he'd lie because he has no reason to really with as cheap as Sadie was he wasn't making a profit anyways) anyways, he stated that the only reason he switched from registering AKC to APRI was that several times someone forgot to sign something somewhere that was a simple fix and AKC wouldn't help solve the problem. and another time he bought an AKC dog and was lied to about the dog and found out it was pregnant at the time of purchase. AKC wouldn't register the puppies, but he found that APRI would. he chose APRI because they were friendly and they helped him out when a situation beyond his control popped up. i don't condone APRI and i never actually said i would for sure send them money, and now i won't be, but i do want to make note that if AKC would make those simple misunderstandings and HUMAN ERROR little mistakes a bit easier to find a solution, than maybe breeders would stick with AKC as the registry of choice and not have to find another more user friendly service to register with.
just some food for thought, like i said, i'm not supporting APRI, and i wont' be sending them money not because of the comments on here, but because i just don't feel like registering Sadie anywhere anymore, it's all a bunch of bull IMO anyways.
my final comment on this matter: just don't go looking for a thread to comment on about your puppy mill drama please, it's really not helping change anyone's hearts or minds, it just makes yet another thread turn into a big debacle and causes more rifts between members of YT. we all have yorkies from where ever they came from so lets once again not let a silly thread that got out of hand and was hijacked and completely subject changed make us all nuts and hate each other
sound like a plan??? i sure hope so |