If anyone reads this thread and chooses to interpret it as "it doesn't matter how well you know the lines or if you perform health test," then they have seriously misunderstood what was being discussed. If one feels that health testing is pointless and they see no problem with breeding puppy mill dogs with no knowledge on their backgrounds, ESPECIALLY the medical background....then that speaks LOADS about their breeding practice.
And sadly, there's a sucker born every minute. There are people who will never take the time to research prior to buying a dog and will never learn that is the kind of thing one should AVOID in a breeder.
Fortunately, there are some who do come here to learn that will read discussions like those in this thread and will slow down long enough to really think the situation over thus enabling themselves to make wiser choices when looking for a dog.
