[yorkietalkjilly]

When I was there years back, the complex was back off the road in a private type wooded area and you could hear an army of dogs from somewhere away from the house where the lady, Vicki, lived. There was outbuildings and other shapes you could make out in the dark(was only there at night) and you could tell from the din that many, many dogs lived on those premises somewhere but I never saw any in the house except the puppies I was viewing or a parent or two. The lady, Vicki, could show you many toy dog puppies per visit or if you called asking about her ad in the newspaper, from Yorkies, Maltese, Chi's and so forth. Mixes? No problem. When you asked to see the parents, if they were on premises, they were apparently brought from afar and one at a time and one could tell they were retrieved from those outbuildings more than likely from the time it took. The dogs tended to have poor-to-good conformation but the Yorkies, Maltese & Chi's often had very cutesy, flattened faces and the doll-faced look - even the Yorkies back then. It looked like even then the very juvenile-looking dog was beginning to be in vogue. You were not permitted to see the "facilities" back then - a huge red flag I now know. There were almost constant ads in the newspaper for various breeds - all toys or toy mixes as I recall. I did not personally ever see any dogs that looked sick or ill the time or two I was there but then I only saw the dogs chosen and presented by the owner and represented as the parent(s) of the puppy(ies) shown. I would say by all accounts it satisfied most criteria for a puppymill, though I never got to see where or how all those dogs were kept and lived their lives.