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Originally Posted by miabellaamoure  It's obvious...problem is, you are a Breeder (by your own admission) and one who would cold-call a potential buyer just because you caught whiff of a sale...?
The thing is...it's Breeders who operate this way who are at the root of why Rescues keep getting calls from shelters & owner surrenders...when that great deal of a puppy turns out to be the opposite! |
Cold Call? You missed the obvious, the person is posting/requesting for a puppy of a certain type in a certain location. To pm them is to respond to their request (which isn't YOUR request, it's THEIRS).
I, for one, have often been scrolling through the new posts and see where someone wants a particular puppy in a certain locale. Because I actually care where my puppies go sometimes I think
'oh them seem nice, would be worth checking out (key words there), oh, I don't ship, no need to answer them and let them know there's a pup of the kind they are looking for available from me' (one doesn't know if someone is a good buyer for their pup until after they've spoken with them) Sometimes I see posts that turn me off.
Breeders who care about their pups want them to go to a good home preferabley early enough to establish good bonding (less likely the pup will get dumped into a shelter) --- making sure they get a good home is the priority, so obviously the bigger pool of potential buyers assures one will in all likelihood achieve that purpose. Hardly a "whiff of a sale" that was pretty funny.
The fact remains very often one has a list and the list falls apart...jeez, wish I could guarantee things like that would never happen, but since one can't often times someone just happens to have a puppy available...why wouldn't they want a potential good home to be made aware of this?
To help keep the pups from ending up in a shelter or worse - I do have a relinquish agreement and a money back guarantee if they decide they don't want the dog for any reason I will give them a percentage of their money back.
The fact is just because someone PM's you doesn't mean they are not legit...that's the facts, regardless of how some breeders sell...from lists or not isn't going to change that fact. Even if there are a 1,000 dogs in a shelter in some obscure mid west town, doesn't mean if someone PM's you they have a dog available that the dog isn't a high quality pup. The point was don't make statements that are not fact based. It is NOT a fact that if someone comes on YT and requests a puppy and receives a PM from someone that they will not get a good healthy dog. Don't go off in some other area.