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Originally Posted by cj125  Hi Ohashfo! Welcome to YorkieTalk! I'm sorry you feel as though people are being mean about the place you bought your puppies. What breed do you have? Do you have any pictures? I'd love to see them. I hope I can help explain a few things so that you might understand why we get so upset seeing pet stores selling puppies for these prices. First of all, many of the puppies they advertise are small because they are young. Many of the breeds they are selling are TOY breeds and only come in one size. Yorkies don't have Micro's, TeaCups, Tinies etc. They are just Yorkshire Terriers which should weigh up to 7 lbs. There are no inbetween sizes. Granted there will always be some bigger and some smaller - but they are not suppose to be bred that way. I noticed quite a few puppies that were less than 12 weeks old. Toy breeds shouldn't be separated from their mom or littermates prior to that and/or 2 lbs. And if this pet store has them at 9 weeks then they probably were taken at least a week earlier than that so they could be shipped to them from a puppymill or broker. I didn't see any mention of pedigree with any of the puppies. IF they were from good breeding... believe me - they wouldn't be there to be sold. So to say that these puppies are coming from reputable breeders just isn't so. They are coming from puppymills/brokers who are only trying to make a lot of money off of over breeding dogs. The people at this store may bathe the puppies - put pretty dresses and bows on them and maybe really care about the puppies once they get there but I really doubt that they are concerned about where they're coming from because if they did.... they wouldn't be selling them. Please take a look at some of the links I'm going to list. IF you really want to know what we're talking about - please read them - that way you don't have to take our word for it. I hope you come back. There's a lot to learn about what's happening to the dogs in this country and there are a lot of really good people on this forum. Puppymills - Information about puppy mills and how to shut them down. Petstore Cruelty |
Well said!
And, ohashfo, I also hope you stick around! When I first joind YT, I also didn't see much of a problem with people selling to brokers, but now I know a LOT more and my opinions have changed.
YT is a great place to learn and make friends!