[Yorkiemom1]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Well, some people are just not wealthy enough to spend a lot of money to get a new puppy that turns out to be seriously ill and should never have even been offered for sale, pay thousands upon thousands for it's medical care, sit by as it suffers and then still have to perhaps watch it die and allow the breeder to keep the money and skate on the disreputable action of producing and then passing on for sale dogs of very poor health and questionable quality. Like it or not, some are being priced out of owning a purebred dog if they have are going to have to both fund disreputable breeders' mistakes and still wind up without a puppy in a few months and to try to buy a second and start all over.

If one does deal with a breeder who offers a puppy that quickly or immediately becomes ill or proves to be one that should never have been sold, people should be allowed to call them on it and get their money back if they cannot afford to keep and pay for all the medical care and the dog's eventual final expenses within a few weeks. It is their personal choice and is often necessarily based on financial concerns for those who are not financially the most comfortable. Which is why all the disreputable overbreeding that is going on, producing sickly and ill puppies, usually advertised on websites that promise all kinds of pie-in-the sky claims and dogs that never should have even been created at all let alone offered for sale, is so painful. It can often prey on those who can least afford to deal with all the financial and emotional hit - those who are perhaps new to the dog or pet world, not savvy enough to even know to do "research" and "educate" themselves, are not well off financially but still want and perhaps even need a canine companion to enrich their lives and provide someone to just love and come home to at the end of the day. Some people psychologically need a dog to help them through their day and that dog is all they have got to hang onto. Some have no other family, no support system and not a great deal of money. Some are totally on their own and sadly, finances mean more than some can ever know. Yet they still want a dog they have perhaps always dreamed about. They should be allowed to dream and find the dog they would so love to have if possible. People caught in this situation matter, too, and some are not financially well off enough to have to pay for irreputable breeders' poor choices plus suffer the psychological pain of being so taken in by a BYB'er/puppymiller/greeder in addition to watching their dog slowly die so soon after they got it, all as their funds dwindle and huge debt mounts. Some have no alternative but to painfully try to return the very ill dog for the money they can get in refund and try to find their companion at another, hopefully respected and reputable breeder's home. If we are going to buy and sell dogs for money from breeders who promise a healthy dog, then money and keeping promises are going to have to be part of the conversation when the dog sold is proven to be a sickly dog that shouldn't have been offered for sale. Returning a new, sickly puppy to a breeder is a personal and private decision and every pet owner has to decide what will work for them and their own personal situation in addition to that of the puppy.

So eloquently spoken...and so very true....explaning the other side of the coin in heartfelt words, with clarity and sensitive reasoning. The VERY LEAST a respectable, ethical breeder should be offering, is a healthy puppy! No new owner should ever have to go thru this.