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Originally Posted by myia  Wish I came across this list earlier. I bought a puppy from Melissa Barnes from Arkansas. Speaking to her she seem genuine and caring at first. But found out after I purchase a puppy from her she wasn't honest. Had quite a few problems with my puppy...Melissa claimed not to have known about it, but overall he's doing well and healthy. |
Hi,
I just joined yorkie talk because I, too, bought a puppy (havachon) from Melissa Barnes. Mine is a mix between a Chocolate Havanese -her father, and mother was a Bischon. Mon Chouchou is totally white, has an underbite (no big deal) but she has the worse allergies that I've seen. Her ears are constantly infected with yeast infections (ie vet trips, different meds trying to keep this under control) and she was even sedated once for him to flush out the ear canals to see what is happening when she is infected.
Her ear canals are so small (much too small for her breed) and that coupled with seasonal allergies are making this really difficult for her to deal with. Other than that she is the best little dog, wonderful temperament, loves everyone, every animal, even bugs. She won't even kill a salamander.
I did want to state too, that after I bought Chouchou was when I learned that Melissa had so many dogs, she had 40 breeds or so. I thought, there is NO way that her kids can play with all of those dogs and puppies as she claims, but maybe they do. I am not her so I cannot say for certain.
We live 11 hours away from Melissa. At my request, she met us at a fast food joint with Chouchou. She was nicely groomed, smelled beautifully, and was the cleanest little puppy that I have ever seen. So there are many things that I can say and a few negative.
We took her to the vet the next morning,after our 22 hour non-stop trip, and he stated that she was the cleanest and seemed to be one of the healthiest puppies that he had ever seen. So there are some things to consider about Melissa Barnes.
I do NOT in any way support Puppy Mills, I am completely against them!!! Chouchou filled a void in our lives when our Poodle/bischon mix died a year bef at 16, therefore she has been an absolute god send to us. We can travel and take her anywhere. She loves everyone, and everyone loves her because of her beautiful almost hazel colored eyes and her white hair.
That's something else. Melissa treats the young white pups with antibotics and they never have the staining (tear duct staining). Chouchou stays white all of the time. When I clean off the eye gook, it is still white underneath. I thought that was amazing since that is one thing that ppl often complain about with their (especially) white pups.
Thanks for allowing me to reply. I know it's rather lengthy, I love yorkies but was afraid to get such a small puppy. Plus I've heard horror stories abt large prey type of birds carrying off these small dogs. Mine is 14 pounds, therefore safe. She is only outside for a minute to do her business, then back inside "as an A/C dog", as my husband calls her.
I'm sorry that your yorkie is sick, I hope it is nothing major. You never elaborated on what type of problems it was having. Melissa acted the same way with me, not realizing that there was anything wrong. I plan on emailing some photo's of chouchou to her showing her how her infected ears look and her underbite.
Something that I thought was neat, is I would have loved to see what the litter mates grew up to look like, so I asked Melissa to send pictures to me of Chouchou's litter mates if or when she hears from owners. She told me that she couldn't do that because she looks at photo's from the owners then deletes them. Then she stated that she had too many to keep track of them in that respect. Ouch!
That's another thing that set me off. Hmm, I didn't think that was so hard. When I bred cockatiels, I could show you photo's of the parents, the clutch, the young ones, then photos from owners. Maybe I just cared more???
Hug your puppy for me, at least these are 2 that are not breeders sitting in little cages. Mine is spayed, as all of my pets from my past have been spayed and neutered. People asked me if I would breed her or why I didn't. I told them of her health problems, add in her OCD. She will sit and nurse (suck) on her bed, as if it were her mothers teet. It's the oddest thing. I got her when she was 3 months old, Born March22, bought on June 4th I believe of 2009. It's not as if she was pulled early for me to buy her. Just add that on as another problem, but we can deal with it, it's not that bad.
She 's very smart and can do a lot of tricks. If you go to youtube.com and type in cassi2m (my normal user name) you can look for mon chouchou dog or puppy and you'll see her. She's so pretty and smart too.
My user name is messed up for her, it should be cassi2m not cssi2m. I emailed the webmaster and hope that they can correct this for me.
Thanks for letting me talk here,
Cathy
ps sorry for any typo's and length!!
