[Nancy1999]

Any ethical breeder is very interested in where her puppies are placed. Someone selling to a pet store doesn't care who buys their puppies. The pet store never refuses anybody as long as they have the money. We have a serious problem with people impulse buying the wrong breed without information on what the future needs of the dog will be, so many of these dogs wind up in shelters. While these puppies may not come from the most horrendous conditions, they do come from a breeder breeding solely for profit, and this is never a good thing, for the puppies, and especially for the breeding dogs. So when a pet store says, "We don't get our puppies from mills, we buy them from small independent breeders", what they really mean is we buy them from breeders who don't give a damn where their dogs end up.

By the way, many backyard breeders don't care either, but fool the public by having adoption forms, and convincing the buyer how much they love their dogs. Please see the kennel conditions for yourself, even if you are buying from the sweet lady on Yorkietalk.