[107barney]

I would never buy a puppy from anyone who was willing to ship it to me sight unseen for many reasons.

And, I also would not feel comfortable flying a young puppy home from some other place because you never know what might happen on a flight. One time I got stuck on the tarmac while they fixed my aircraft, another time we were stuck at a gate for 2 hours because were no parking spots available for our plane.... And my best airline experience was when I traveled to the south pacific, and when we finally got home to Providence after a very long flight, we couldn't land because of an icy runway and lack of ground crew to make the runway safe for landing, we did not have enough fuel to circle Boston who could not accommodate us due to ice and delays so we had to go to Philadelphia and were given hotel vouchers... we tossed the vouchers and tried to rent a car, it was closed, so we caught a train, but it was a 35 hour trip door to door.

Imagine if I had a puppy on any of those flights, especially that 35 hour ordeal.