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Originally Posted by yorkiesmiles I'm so sorry that you got bad news? What exactly is it that has you so concerned?
Twenty years ago, I got my first dogs. Bichon Frises, and I bought them at a pet store - (had never heard don't do this) Maybe the puppymill thing wasn't so bad then (does anyone know?) I bet it was 5-8 years after that before I first started hearing about puppymills. Anyway, I breed my dogs, no one else around here new what Bichons were then.
My dogs did both have champion bloodlines and shared a great-great grandfather. They produced huge litters - always 6-8 pups. We only ever had one odd incidence and that was a pup from the first litter, who was the biggest pup from the day it was born - She grew to be almost twice the size of the standard.
My petstore dogs lived into their mid-teens and never had health problems until old age started setting in. So, lets pray your furbaby will be the exception, too.
I don't even think there is a petstore around here that sells dogs - but we need to keep getting the word out about petstores and puppymills! If you do have problems with your pup, please file a complaint with the attorney general in the state where you bought your pup, and if the puppymill is in another state, contact their attorney general too. I know in Iowa they are trying to crack down on these folks.
Best wishes   Yorkiesmiles |
The kennel conditions and multiple citations and lots of sick or deformed puppies.... one of those being a yorkie puppy purchased the same week i got mine
Snickers went to the vet the day i got her and then again last week and all looks ok... i think i feel a lil guilty for contributing to a puppy mill but at the same time wouldnt trade her... and can't help to think of what possible lingering health problems may emerge
i guess i am being silly its just i am so attached to her its heartbreaking what people do to animals to make money... it was a large facility with alot of complaints etc... and its across the country (i was mislead to believe the petstore used its "own" "responsible" breeder.
i'm just sad about the whole thing but we love her
glad she is with us and not there anymore....