[yorkietalkjilly]

That craigslist dog probably sold right away or you asked too many questions & scared the seller off. It may be for the best as I'd be so skeptical, even if I met the person & got the dog, I would expect it to disappear on the way home or something! Like Teresa said, a dog like this would go directly to the vet after purchase & never immediately home with Tibbe and I'd have to isolate it from him and the yard until all the labs came back. I'm so scared of a new dog making him sick, I can only get another dog directly from a trusted breeder or have to go through the above isolation steps.

I would just be too scared to meet someone from craigslist list, even if I had a guy with me. They could follow you & find out where you live and things like that and wait until the guy is no longer around or come back. If you want another little one, keep contacting rescues, A-C, and even trusted breeders around you as breeders come into rescues & dogs from time to time - that is how I got Tibbe. He was dumped on a breeder I know when his actual breeder was getting a divorce & having lots of family troubles. My breeder said she had been told by a friend that Tibbe's breeder had been keeping him and all of her dogs outside, each in his own cage with hardly any attention or exercising or anything! His poor little teeth at age 9 mos. were brown from some type of food he was living on, they had never been brushed or cleaned by even a washcloth & he had retained baby teeth and his breath was terrible. He lost permanent teeth at his first cleaning by my vet plus those baby teeth. He was wild and scared and didn't know what grass or TV or a bathroom were. He would go into the kitchen for a drink of water & somehow wind up standing with one foot in it - more than once! He was thin and my breeder said she'd worked for hours getting mats out of his coat. He ran in circles when you let him out of his pen! He had ear mites and an ear fungal infection but he thankfully had been started on heartworm preventative and had his shots to date but other than that, he'd had little in the way of real care.

So even breeders occasionally get "rescue" dogs. And you won't be dealing with a seller that may be dealing in dogs or worse!