[Lula-Mae Famous]

Gosh, I feel your pain.

There are not many breeders in my area and all the ones I had talked to were freaking nuts. In some cases, beyond nuts!

I understand that breeders might have to deal with all sorts of weirdos that want to buy their puppies but being a lady that is looking for a nice pet to love, there are a couple of breeders that I just couldn’t deal with. Its almost unfair to their dogs, knowing that they scared away someone who could have loved one of their dogs as much as I love my little Lula.

Oh and then there is breeder drama. "don’t buy from that breeder, she wears purple on Sundays and washes her dishes with hand soap" type stuff. I don’t give a crap about you breeders personally, you could worship satan for all I care, just as long as you have loved, healthy puppies. Sometimes the breeder attached just isn’t worth the dog.
You want to come see my house? Sure, I'll even make you a 5 course dinner. Want to talk to my landlord? I'll invite him over too, perhaps even my best friend who is a dog trainer and dog foster parent, maybe even a handful of my other breeder/trainer/vet friends. Anything just get this breeder hell over with! Oh, but I only have a partially fenced in back yard. whemp whemp wahhmp.
Game over.

One woman wanted $3500 for her puppies. Most were looking for over $2000. I would have loved to adopt but most adoption puppies have more problems than I can care for at this time in my life.

I ended up flying to a breeder out of state. Its funny how different breeders in different areas have way different prices. Even with couple flights I still paid less than what people in the MA area wanted.

Its sick. If a dog isn’t show quality and is being sold as a pet it should defiantly without a doubt have a different price. A reasonable pet price. I think if some of these breeders lowered their pet price they could put puppy mills out of business.

I can honestly say at one point I wanted to just go to the mall and pick up a dog. It would have saved me months of headaches (yea I know, in the long run, vet bills, blah blah, I know, Ive read the 8 millions threads dedicated to cheap puppy mill puppies) all I’m saying is that I felt punished for doing things the right way.