[christiers]

I realize this post is a month and a half old but I couldn't resist replying. I briefly flirted with the idea of purchasing a yorkie from Carter's Yorkies last year. I am from Alabama, but currently reside in NJ and was planning a trip home and had emailed Lisa back and forth a number of times. It was important to her to get to charge for shipping, she was in such a rush to get the puppy out to me, as opposed to waiting 2 weeks for me to pick it up (I was traveling to Bama, would have drove down to her in GA). Then it was mentioned that she would be traveling northbound on I-65. I asked her if she would be interested in pulling off at exit 351 in Bama, and meeting one of my family members at Cracker Barrel, literally 4/10's of a mile our of her way. She said yes but wanted to "charge" me a delivery fee. She quoted me the same charge as shipping the puppy through the airlines. I am not cheap by any means, when I contacted Lisa I had lost my 2nd yorkie in 2009...due to not researching and purchasing from a puppy with an unknown liver shunt from NJ broker for a PA puppy mill. I had asked her about bile acid testing, she said it wasn't necessary, she had never had an issue....didn't seem to appreciate me asking.

I had researched and educated myself after losing the puppy to a liver shunt. Had I only known ahead of time, I would have tested and corrected but there were no symptoms until it was too late.....hindsight. I go above and beyond providing for my babies, but the "delivery" fee was a red flag on a few levels. I simply questioned why so much, it wasn't as if she was going out of her way to drop off the puppy, or that I had even made the suggestion in the first place. She said it an option, since I was uncomfortable flying such tiny, precious little babies in "perishable cargo holds" on these airlines. She quickly became VERY defensive and aburpt.

To parapharase her response, I was inconveniencing her asking her to stop, and then the inconvenience of traveling with the "dog". I was appalled at the tone of her email. I neverminded compensating her for her time, but would never want to inconvenience anyone. Her finally email left me with an unsettling feeling and I often catch myself wondering whatever happened with that little girl . The little yorkie was barely 8 weeks at the end of our last correspondence. I hope she went to a good home and is enjoying a healthy, happy life. But Lisa's disposition with me and complete annoyance with me questioning her delivery fee and the bile acid test made me uncomfortable to do business with her.

Everything happens for a reason, I found an adorable little girl elsewhere....the breeder was happy to pay for the bile acid test. She is a healthy, thriving, AKC Canine Good Citizen. It is a difficult test on them I know....but it is difficult to suddenly and quickly lose them without being able to do anything about it as well. There is always a measure of the pros and cons.

To end my long-worded reply...I would never consider purchasing a yorkie from Lisa again. There was something about the rush to get rid of the puppy and the aburptness of her response to my questioning over test and the amount of the delivery fee that left me with that pit in my gut saying "don't deal with her, doesn't feel right."