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Originally Posted by ladyjane  We don't ask for income. I just believe that people who are selling or adopting dogs out should be more aware of who they are handing living beings over to. Do they have a history of having cared for dogs? Do they know what good vetting is? If I were a breeder, I would honestly not care what someone thought about my questions. My dogs to place and I certainly would not give them to just anyone with money in hand. Just selling to a person because they say they will do the right thing is not the answer. I would rather lose one good owner than sell to three bad ones. The pups are the ones who pay the ultimate price of poor placements
We don't ask people questions just because we have donors we answer to........we ask because we don't want a pup we saved to be dumped yet another time in his/her short life. |
I get it. And those are the questions I don't feel I need to answer to a breeder when I have a couple of thousand dollars in hand. Breeders are selling dogs, not placing or rescuing them. Any money they spend on dogs is for profit whereas rescue is nonprofit with a different philosophical origin. This is how I see it, I don't expect everyone to agree. I simply am offering magic genie a possible reason why her sales may be drying up. I represent the average New England buyer. She's in the business of selling dogs and I'm sure does not want to keep losing money when they puppies don't sell. There are not a lot of Yorkie breeders in New England but in today's day and age with very good breeders elsewhere shipping puppies to buyers, I can buy a dog for half the price without all the questions. The value of the local breeder isn't there for some people and becomes less so when it's too much of a process. That does not equate with being a bad owner.