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Originally Posted by SirTeddykins  Why leave? Anyone who opposed your method of using a Korean puppy mill had their comments deleted and you are championed as a hero by some of the more knowledgeable members who know better and the less educated who rally behind you like soldiers of a puppy mill horde.
There's no need to leave because people like me who are passionate about advocating AGAINST exactly what you did will leave, instead.
Congrats, I hope the dog is healthy and I hope you educate yourself so you don't contribute to this sick practice with a future pup that you only wanted because it was promised to be freakishly small.
I do not agree with what you did and never will and refuse to conform to it to be nice. If the truth hurts your feelings, think long and hard why that may be.
As for me, I've donated to Yorkie Talk so I hope it continues in the spirit of education and not enablement. My funding will go to other sites and organizations which uphold their values despite necessary confrontation which comes along with the responsibility to educate and do not condone this nonsense against all advice and common sense.
I'm disappointed beyond words at the attitudes of some on here and refuse to be apart of it..again, good luck to the PUPPY only. It deserves that much. |
Sir Teddykins, I'm very happy you were welcoming. Your advice helped, and I will FOREVER love you for it.
That being said: Just because I have surveyed the situation for what it was, a gray area, doesn't make me a "puppy mill horde."
Your passion, while appreciated, will now be forever looked at by no less than 45% of the people looking at this thread as a weapon. From there YOU will undo ANY good you have apparently been trying to do. You've insulted any one trying to go for a gray area. Just because you think that saying something is better, it doesn't make it so. In College, my communications courses taught me that MOST people think of the world in their own viewpoints. They believe every single person thinks who they do. I never understood that, but I do now. Not everyone has a people pleasing gene in them. I do. I admit that. Thank G-d I do, because I can see every one and find good in all subjects. MY baby girl came from a man who will probably end up a puppy mill. I am forever grateful, despite any opinions, that I went on my gut instinct. I adore her, and she pulled me out of a deep depression. Her personality is so amazing that her puppy daycare writes me every few months to gush about her and tell me that her staff misses her. She's sweet and smart. Gentle and kind.
She comes from a background that people "would" have passed over. My own daughter begged me to buy the poodle. I wouldn't. I couldn't. She owned me body and soul from the very second she looked at me with that look only another yorkie lover could understand.
While my next yorkie will come from a better situation, thanks to this site, it doesn't make me any less resolute. she needed love. We needed each other.
Your stats can't possibly refute that these guys just want love. That if someone buys from a backwoods korean mill doesn't mean they deserve derision. Her partner was buying this puppy. She did the best she could, and any one saying a spouse is gaslighting or mentally abusing/manipulating is trying to buy into the hype. I know MY spouse. He's a good man, but if he's made up his mind, which is so rare, I know not to intervene, and the OP is probably in that boat. Again, it doesn't mean she needs any nasty remarks. She tried, she listened.
And now any one saying she's doing well is lumped into nasty remarks. I like you, I admire you and, as stated before, will be forever grateful for your help. I, however, am very upset at being called a "puppy mill horde enabler." You have done the very opposite of what you've strove to do. I get that this will just be met with snorts and more remarks, but, JUST LIKE YOU, my feelings are MY feelings.
Please, find it in your heart to tone this down, or any one that's looking will take your words in a negative light. You are better than this. I am hoping that my words will sink in. This is despite the fact that any one that tried to be nice was met with nothing but derision and scorn.