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I replied to a classified add. I went to her home. She and her husband were in the back yard washing dogs. The dogs (maybe 6 or 7) barked of course. They were not unruly and we ignored them. She had one female she pointed out to me that was soon to deliver. She had one 15wk female puppy for sale and Birdie. She told me that she was moving into the city to be closer to her son who had recently moved out and I guess she had empty nest syndrome. The woman lived in a mobile home near a lake. She had kennels under the mobile home and fans under there. She told me that she alternated the dogs, taking some into the house and putting others out. She kept the mothers and pups in the house. Birdie was housebroken so I suppose she was getting some attention.
All the dogs looked clean. She had complete vet records, recently dated wormer sticker on Birdies record. She told me about homeopathic supplements she used with her dogs. She told me she had bred Birdie once, there were no complications. How does one prove that a bitch has only been bred once? How would I know if that was a lie or not? Her tits are not distended, but it is obvious that she has nursed in the past. She said that Birdie had recently been in heat. She was obviously not bred at that time. She has not come into heat again and I have owned her about 3 months. The woman didn't appear to hide anything from me. She allowed me to see her breeding stock and where they live. She sold me a dog, she didn't auction it or abandon it, or have it euthanized. I don't know if she had a website or not. The only breed I saw were standard size Yorkies. So forgive me if I take issue with you characterizing her as unscrupulous. I didn't see any evidence to support that remark.
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This IS a backyard breeder (under the trailer) The type of breeder my future furbaby WILL NOT come from. Puppies bread and treated in this way do not have the best temperaments or habits. They are not properly socialized for being show dogs or pets. When you obtain a puppy from an environment such as this it takes extra hard work, and patience out of this world to raise and train them properly.
You probably think you have a upper hand on this situation by just getting some puppies out of her and then selling her off or giving them to friends and family. Sorry, but you don't. You are actually just contributing to the miss use of animals for selfish reasons, which is just as bad as other people with no ethics for breeding properly and greed.
How can anyone think that treating the mother of puppies as a breeding machine, just to produce livestock to sell or give away, can actually be producing sound and well adjusted puppies, to become a member of a future family as a happy and socially acceptable pet? Oh, and that is without the puppy being a extra stressfull challenge, beyond the usually challenging problems that comes with training?