Originally Posted by Princess10  I understand now about the "called" name & the reg. name, though they are not similar in any way. I just didn't like it that Princess was born last Jan.('10) & both of her parents aren't on the site. But as I was looking at the pics, and I'll try to just post the pic, don't really want any issues just some clarification, one of the females looks exactly like the one I have posted in my album. Looking harder I see the sire is the dog sitting next to her on the couch of four but my pic is cropped to show the 2. It was taken at the same time, you can tell by the poses.
I took a pic of the screen as I can't save the pic. The 4 are the females & the other added one in the lower part is the female on the couch as well. If you look in Princess' Puppy Album there no mistaking that's who they are. She only has one pic of a sire, he looks very young, though I don't know for sure.
As for trusting her, of course I did initially. I did my research the best I could on what to look for in a breeder. I did not really read anything here until she was home. I got her at 9.5 weeks, I had read it was ok between 10-12 & the breeder assured me it was fine. No health guarantee, she just said her lines had no probs which may be true, & to get a hold of her if anything arises. Thank God Princess has been in stellar health, knock on wood. But I did try to contact her several times to see how big her parents were to get an idea about Princess possibly. Lot's of emails & even FB msgs. & no replies.
She was selling her runt for $50 more than the rest, I knew to stay away from tiny ones, but it didn't hit me as a red flag that she would charge more for it. I picked Princess first & she happened to be the biggest one, which I was happy about. I never did get to see her house as she lives 4 hours away and brought her to me on her way out of town. She also raises Irish Wolfhounds & I did know that, not sure if that's a prob or not.
Prior to the exchange, we did talk on the phone a LOT...I asked a million questions about Princess as she was my first dog & I didn't know anything about yorkies. She never seemed put off by the questions, warned me about hypoglycemia, sent forti-cal, toys, etc. with Princess as well as first shot & deworming records.
This may sound trivial but for instance she told me to microwave an egg over kibble for Princess in the AM, she loves it. Princess hated it, hates eggs prepared any way. It just made me think she was telling me what would make her look better or something.
So I finally find her....on petfind.com. She's selling yorkies & poms and pretty cheap. That led me to the website with the pics.
It's just annoying to me because I tried very hard to be an educated buyer & just feel duped by what I am finding out about her. They're not terrible things, but it does sound like a BYB operation to me, maybe & hopefully I'm wrong. It just would've been nice to be able to refer people to where I got my great dog & also be able to return to her if/when I got another. |