[capt_noonie]

Buying a puppy from a pet shop, you have to think backwards. You go to the pet shop and you see some adorable pups, about 8 weeks old. Look at their tags. Where are they from? States away? How long did it take for them to get trucked to the shop? How old were they when they were taken away from their moms? By the way, who are their moms and where are they?

The sad and scary truth is that puppies taken away from their moms too early and sold in pet shops are from puppymills, period. What of the moms? They are bred at each and every heat and their pups taken away from them again too early. Once they are too old to produce puppies (profit) they are killed.

If you buy from a pet shop, this is what you support. Even if you buy toys, collars, leashes. Anything you buy from them you support puppymills.

Google puppymills.

There are millions upon millions of perfectly good dogs put down every year bc there aren't enough good homes for them.

There are rescues full of perfectly good dogs that need homes bc of them. And yes there are purebred yorkies, and young ones as well. My current foster Lily is proof of it. This lovely young girl is available, and she is a rescue.