[Rhetts_mama]

I don't think the OP is denying that she made a mistake going back to these BYB's. She acknowledges that she should not have. She also said she was given reassurances that the breeder had made significant strides to improving her breeding program. Perhaps she was too trusting. Perhaps she was wrong going after a tiny. Bottom line is that she was sold a sick pup that had no business leaving any breeder when it did. Should she have seen the red flags? Of course she should have. Did she reward a bad breeder with $? Affirmative on that, too. But at the end of the day, it was still the breeder who let a sick pup go.