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Originally Posted by YorkieRose and another biggy in my book, the store owner is legally bound to sell to anyone, no matter they may have 6 children under 6 yrs, 50 other dogs, live in their car and many other deal killers..
I am too dogmatic, but Yorkies are worth being insane about... |
Does this mean you don't believe yorkies (Or any other small dog for that matter) should be in a home with small children???!!
I would have to disagree with that as a reason NOT to allow someone to adopt a yorkie. I think you should base that decision on how the children behave themselves. I have four children ages 7, 5, 3, and 15 months. We are training them from infancy how to respect and show love to animals. I have NOT baby proofed my dog, but rather, I am training my children to respect the dogs personal space. Just because a person has a small child or children DOES NOT mean it would be a bad home or an abused home for a small dog. I get really irritated when people say, "Oh you have small children. Not a good home for a yorkie." Really I take this to mean that people believe you shouldn't have kids if you want a small dog or you shouldn't have a small dog if you want kids????!! I am sorry I do not agree! I DO think that if parents want children AND a small dog then they SHOULD be putting forth the effort to train their children in the proper care and handling of the small dogs from a very young age.
As for pet stores, the dogs there deserve a good and loving home too and if we walk in a pet store, see the sad puppies in those little cages, and then walk out without doing anything to get them out of those cages then IMO we are just as guilty as the "breeders" who bred them and sent them there. How can we judge breeders who send their dogs to a petstore if we are posting how we seen a sad puppy in a store cage, but we didn't work out a way to get it a home. Not our responsibility but that of the breeders? Well aparantly not a responsible breeder so there fore why should we turn our backs on an innocent puppy stuck in a petstore cage? Pet store puppies deserve loving homes too whether the store owners lied or not. If it really bothers us so badly that these pet store puppies might not be going to good homes then why aren't we doing more to find them good homes? Surely we all know someone who would give petstore pups a loving home and don't have 6 kids under the age of 6.