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Originally Posted by JennaPenny  I've spoken to the poster a few times. She's very intelligent and open to anything that might make the puppy healthy. I think she's fighting an uphill battle, but trying to do the right thing. We think Malibu, and we see dogs dressed up as an accessory. I get that suddenly we're all up in arms, especially having a bond with our yorkie. It makes us even more upset. Heck, there is a new neighbor that has a yorkie even smaller than my four pounder, and being on here? I KNOW it's wrong, and, it just looks so horrible from my educated perspective. However, that's just it. WE have these guys, WE spend time reading and doing our best. New yorkie owners are new and learning. It was only by the grace of God I didn't go with the original breeder who promised me a puppy full grown- under 4 pounds. I read up, Husband read up, and we decided not to. Chewie was unexpected. Her brown eyes met mine.. and.. I was lost. I went there to see the morkie puppies and pick one out, and to look at the yorkie-poo. I had bonded with a little guy in the pet store that was scraggly and people just left him. Husband put his foot down and we fought. I had to leave him there.
When I saw Chewie, and my heart clenched in *that* way, nothing would dissuade me. I thank God I wasn't educated at that point, because I wouldn't have my baby. She was sad. SO sad. She was sick, and she was frightened. Her litter mates were gone- both snatched up the day prior. She had been shipped and this was her second home. She had been treated like a thing. Not a living, breathing, being.
Please look at this from another perspective. This woman is taking a baby who has been bred, I know, badly, and taking CARE of her/him. She and he will give this guy a good life. That has to count for something. |
Whilst I get what you're saying,
the number one thing those looking for a puppy are told to NOT do is BUY from a puppy mill on the basis that you're going to take it out of its situation and give it a good home by improving its lifestyle. All that happens is that INDIVIDUAL puppy gets a great life and the mom keeps popping out puppies until she gets sick and/or dies and then her puppies, if they're lucky enough to live, are either sold to people who don't care as they've bought them to breed or they are used by the original puppy mill breeder to increase production.
I believe the poster is as intelligent as anyone else but being stubborn undermines intellect when one refuses to be open in favor of being 'right' even when wrong.
I try to back off this thread but what she's doing and the way she's going about it is WRONG and if we say anything but the truth about this we are enabling others to think they are right in THEIR situation to benefit themselves as individuals and, thus, being part of and widening the overall issue which is the support of puppy mills and all that means e.g. abused mothers, ill bred puppies, sick and dying 'stock' etc. I just can't do it no matter how nice it appears to not be. I care more about these dogs than someone's feelings. Dogs can't speak for themselves so rely on us to be their voice.