[ah635kandi]

I have been reading the posts regarding Kim Balas. I'm a little confused, because if I drove 6 hours to a breeders home, and saw way too many dogs captured in one room with 1 bowl of food, in filthy living conditions, and a puppy that appeared severely malnutritioned, eating poop, unsocialized, dirty, with a ear infection, and extremely fearful, I think I'd have to rethink handing a breeder $1500 for the dog. Btw I have a dog that loves eating poop, and I can assure you it's not from ever bring malnutritioned.

In reading your first post, you make several assumptions that I'd like you to substantiate. You indicate that Kim does not breed for quality. How did you arrive at that conclusion? Did you study her pedigrees and discover inferior quality in her lines? You also are accusing her of starving her dogs to make them sound smaller to " optimize her profit." How does selling a 4 lb yorkie that's been starved to 2 lbs, optimize profit? It's doesn't make the dog smaller, it makes the dog a 4 lb skinny dog. Again, if the dog was big and skinny, why did you buy it?

You've indicated twice that the dogs leg was broken. I'm going to ask why you'd buy a dog with a broken leg, but I'm not sure you did. It sounds like the dogs leg was broken in your care and you asked Kim's opinion about how to fix it and didn't like the answer. Because Kim suggested casting as an option, that's no red flag! It was a suggestion. The final answer on how to fix it was your decision after speaking with a surgeon. It also sounds like you're furious at Kim because she would foot the bill to get the dog's leg fixed. If you signed a contract, did the contract stipulate that Kim was responsible for a broken leg? I think you want everyone to believe that the dogs broken leg resulted in malnutrition. Legs don't break from malnutrition. Tiny fine bone dogs like yorkies bones break from being dropped, or jumping or falling from a bed, sofa etc. You also make the assumption that the dogs leg was broken from a pre existing injury while in Kim's care. How do you know that?

Kim does paper train her dogs. Doesn't it make sense that a puppy living in her home for 10 months using the same area to relieve itself on papers, just might be somewhat confused when its sent to a new, strange home with new owners, and just may have to be retrained to find this papers?

I have a Yorkie from Kim. He is spectacular. He is well bred, healthy and happy. He was from the day I got him. I did not go to Kim's home because when I asked for photos and videos, I got them. I saw where and how he lived. I watch him run and play with his brother. When I asked about food, Kim was very upfront about his poor eating habits. It's very common for a Yorkie puppy to be a non-eater. My Yorkie was and she never kept that from me. Instead she told me what she was feeding him to make sure he ate. You're lucky you got a good eater. Him diving into a food bowl is very common. It has nothing to do with being starved.

I would be very happy to speak with anyone who's considering buying from Kim Balas. Given the opportunity to purchase from her again, I would do do without hesitation.