[Lolli_lah]

Just going to throw my 2 cents in here, hope there's no offense taken as it's just my personal experiences.

I don't even know how or why you'd register a dog for ACA or AKC. I honestly don't know the point or anything even though I know what the letters stand for. But, is it mostly just for dog showing or what?

And also thought I'd input my experience with Lolli

Well, my boyfriend decided to adopt a dog but instead of surprising me with something unknowing what I'd like or anything, he gave me a budget and I went out and found the types of dogs available for rescue and researched any breed that was a possibility. Finally I found my yorkie, but I had already done a ton of research as I have ALWAYS loved this breed anyway and I'm one to go out and learn about things I like, immediately.

I made the mistake when I was a lot younger by not researching aquatic turtles before I got one. I guess that's why parents allowing kids to get certain types of pets to learn responsibility is important to life. I had joined a turtle forum and found out all this information about how they need a lot of water in their habitat, not the little tiny 1 or 2 inches of water you see so commonly in movies or at the dreaded Flea Markets *shivers* and many other tid bits of information that would have made a whole world of difference in him surviving.

So yeah I guess I am just overly thorough in researching what I purchase before I purchase, because I don't want another situation where I have some living thing in a bad situation because of my ignorance.

Oh and I wanted to ask one last thing/make one last point. I have read on various places that RUNT is actually a natural DEFORMITY. Is this true? I don't know how reputable the sources were of where I've read that nor do I remember where I have read it but I know it was more than 1 place.

So if that is true, why would anyone want to create another deformity from something already deformed? Can you imagine doing that to humans or other animals??

P.S. As I was researching turtles in my younger years, I found that people sometimes get a 2 headed deformity AND BREED IT to get more 2 headeds to make money...