Tricia, you are a sweet and trusting person, such as we all want to be at heart. You came here to YT with the goal of finding out information you needed in order to make a decision on a pup you fell in love with. You trusted that you were safe in making your request because you assume that everyone on YT feels the same as you. That we are all friends. That we are all family.
This is completely not possible. Few people here have met face to face. The only connection we have is the written word. We take it for granted that the love and respect we feel for the majority of the people here is reflected in kind in the hearts of everyone who posts.
Tricia, you were personally faced with the cruel reality that this bond we feel is tenuous indeed. There are too many people in this world who believe that the most important person in this world is the one they see in the mirror. If they don't truly know a person, how could they truly care about how their actions affect someone they have never met and probably never will? What they want is more important than the feelings of a relative stranger.
It's sad that something like this situation makes us feel that we have to protect ourselves from each other. It is indeed a cruel world out there. We would just like to think that it is only a warm fuzzy world here at YT. This situation shows us that unfortunately, YT is just like the rest of the human world. Not completely insulated. Not completely safe. Sad. But true.
Lesson learned.
Sorry you had to be the one to show it to us, Tricia.