http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_033201159.html
With all of the talk about puppymills I did a google news search on the word and this comes up. I think Bailey, my pug is from one of those.
Last year I didn't know much about getting a dog, all I knew where that pet stores were bad because those dogs were likely to come from a puppy mill. We had just moved into an apartment that allows pets. I was excited and I told my husband that I wanted us to pick out a puppy. I went online and saw an ad for a pug. We thought that papers were only used for breeding and didn't see it as important.
I called him and asked the typical questions I knew from getting my cat a couple years ago. I asked him if there was a spade/neutar contract. He kept saying, "What? What is that?" He didn't even know what those words meant. I asked him if the parents of the dogs were on site, he said that he could show me a picture and they were his parents dogs. He said that he would meet my husband at the gas station. After what happened with the breeder who got her baby cut of her by a potential buyer, I understood if a breeder didn't want to meet at their house.
My husabnd brought him home and I loved him instantly. He said that the shot record was all in spanish and it's from Mexico. This news story says that people bring in dogs from there all the time. Bailey is healthy but I feel horrible that my money contributed to that place. My other dog was rescued from a BYB, but a puppymill is 100 times worse.
I feel like I owe Bailey to do something about it. I wish I could stop it all. I wish I could go down there and buy the female adults or something. I don't know what would make me feel better. I was very naive and I know so much more thanks to yorkie talk.
Just please everyone, get a dog with papers and get to know the breeder first.
Attached is an old pic of when bailey was a puppy with Brandy and Cosmo