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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

That name sounds so familiar I am pretty sure I went to that facility one time or it could have been a similar sounding name. IF it is the one I am thinking about, it was essentially a puppymill in a large barn type structure on a fairly large property rather far out of town with just crate after crate after crate of very tiny dogs of many breeds. I think the prices at the time were in the thousands. I didn't see any sick, deformed or multiples in a single crate and it was clean but it was no life for any of the dogs I saw, I am pretty certain. After talking with her a while, it was pretty well established she was a puppy broker, too. I did see several breeds with badly tear-stained faces and too-long toenails and adult-dog breed standard conformation was usually poor. I don't know how the workers there or those dogs stood the strong disinfectant-mixed-with-feces-and-urine odor, though mostly one only smelled the strong, strong breath-taking disinfectant. For a puppy or little pregnant female to have to live constantly breathing that awful strong, strong smell must have been horrible! I'm all for clean but that couldn't have been safe or pleasant for those dogs with their strong senses of smell to endure 24/7! And of course, who was there to see to them all through the long night?

There were too many dogs for even a team of people to give them the life of a beloved pet and how any one of them (that were not chosen pets for special treatment) ever got any one-on-one loving, human-to-dog connection, meaningful interaction and lap time/down time, I'll never know. I doubt any got much in the way of any daily intellectual challenges or stimulation and likely were only exercised in groups when there was some time. It was AWFUL. I am not certain it was that name but it was very like it - of not Texas Teacups, it was Lonestar Teacups or Tiny Texas Teacups or something like that. I would say for anyone responding to any breeder with "teacup" in the title of their business or kennel, think twice. Go see the facilities. And then there are the sham-facilities, where they meet you in a nice home setting, usually rented by the hour, with the kennel van parked down the street so you never really know unless you see something like that barn thing full of dogs. Just awful, awful, awful. And I won't even get into the horrible genetic diseases and issues so many of their puppies have and the misery and vetting involved in the medical aspect of a tiny. And yes, this lady was very proud of her dog business and "the happiness I bring to people and dogs".

An internet search shows she has changed locations over time and there are variations to the business name. The "store" is east of Dallas, off I80. Poor, poor babies.