[yorkietalkjilly]

I hate to hear things like this and it's times like this I wish we had such strong rules and regs that dogs were so hard to breed and buy, we could somehow avoid things like this. But I realize then only the rich or privileged or connected could have them and they aren't any better at being responsible dog owners than the rest of us. I don't see anything on TV or news articles or any public service announcements about helping dogs except the agencies asking for donations. There seems to be no attempt by our entertainment industry to educate the public about getting too young or too tiny dogs. Unless people find websites like this or run into a responsible breeder, how can they know? It seems very few people take to the internet or breed books before they start to look for a dog - they just start looking at ads and reading a big about the breed but I doubt few try to find out what's best for the dog. And why someone wants to bring home such an infant and separate it from its mom, I can't understand. And then they want to take them out and about everywhere during those tender early weeks, have huge parties to greet their arrival with lots of family and friends visiting and likely scare the poo out of them, if they are a shy or anxious-natured dog or a dog at the fear-imprinting age of 7 - 10 weeks. And the internet is full of one thing - endless complaints of "bad" behavior by dogs! And that is when people do so often go online - when their dog is scared to death of thunderstorms or cars or them leaving the house or loud noises or it's chewing, biting, peeing/pooing where it shouldn't, etc., etc., etc. And the end result - we kill millions of unwanted dogs that largely are killed because of behavior problems or because the little thing got sick or hurt and the family had rather get a new pup than fix the dog they have. When our society is going to man-up and get a grip on mass- and over-breeding and the mass-euthanasia of dogs and address how they are suffering as a species, I don't know.