OH. MY. GOD. That is probably where my shea is from. i found shea in a newspaper...went to the ladys home ( on a beautiful farm...lots of horses, other beautiful animals and 4 of her own dogs) Well, I fell in love with my puppy the second i met her. Should have known better something was a little off..."Where is her mommy?" I asked..."she is a show dog...she is being shown right now" I thought it seemed a little strange that she would already be "back to work" but I ignored my gut feeling and asked "do you have any pictures" She pulled up a couple of pictures of a gorgeous yorkie on her computer...yeah, still seemed weird...where were the home pics? STILL, my dumb self decided to buy my puppy (for 600 dollars) After all, I was in love. Signed a sheet of paper took the paper work she put in a little bag for me and went on with our new puppy on my lap in the car. Soooo, I got home and started looking over the paper work... Dames name dog gone lucky stacy...sires dog gone lucky dave from dog gone kennels in missouri! Wait a minute! I bought Shea from a farm in north west jersey! I look up these names online and no dogs are coming up or anything. So, I look up dog gone kennels missouri...what came up made me so sick to my stomach. Inspection citations and fines to this place because it is a puppy mill and was deemed unclean and unsafe! I was so nauseous. I felt so bad for my baby. I called the lady and she WOULD NOT call back. Then, I text her with the following, " How did you come to get this puppy? I just looked up online and she is from a puppy mill??!! I am so angry! I am so against puppy mills" she texts back "no. no puppy mill." thats it, thats all she says. So I questioned her against 10 times how she came to get this puppy. She doesnt answer. 5 days later she calls me and tells me shea was her friends dogs puppy and she bought the dog from there not knowing the dog was from a puppy mill. Listen, I know I was stupid for not looking into things, but I was not stupid enough to believe that. My puppy had a urinary tract infection when I got her, 2 parasites and ear mites. It took a long while to get her well! |