A lot of puppymill pups eat their poop because that was the ONLY nourshiment they had once they were weaned..pretty sad and sick if you ask me.
As far as how does Chrissy KNOW that a broker gets pups from a "bad place"... it's pretty simple. NO DECENT REPUTIBLE BREEDER on this planet would sell pups to a broker! PERIOD.
I don't care if this Broker woman is the nicest, cleanest, friendliest woman in the world... the point is, she buys her pups from people/places who do not care enough about their puppies to raise them and choose their perfect homes themselves..they'd prefer to sell them "in bulk" for the $$ and let this woman do all the work for a profit. Lets face it, it's not hard to pop two dogs together with the right "parts" and make puppies, the pups aren't much trouble til after 6 or 8 weeks when they learn to eat on their own and mom quits cleaning up their poop.. once they become "work"..out the door they go to this broker, who may be the sweetest woman on the planet, HOWEVER, is she requiring genetic testing on all the adult parents and puppies she sells? Maybe she gives a guarantee, but BIG DEAL if you buy a pup who has a terrible genetic defect, and it RIPS YOUR HEART OUT to care for that pup, hey you can get your money back, yippee!! What about your heart? Are these pups being produced to be excellent representatives of the breed? Come on, if you're going to boot your pups out the door when they start yapping and pooping, you're not going to give two hoots if mom has a heart murmer, and dad has a liver shunt, or if mom is 15 lbs and dad is TWO.. if mom is a redleg, and dad has dumbo ears, and luxating patellas, you made your dollar, let this broker woman be responsible with her "guarantee"... Get the point here?
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Originally Posted by ali22 You don't have to tell me about puppy mill pups!!! There's this little pet shop in Point Pleasant, that I have ALWAYS been repulsed by. Well one day me and my boyfriend at the time went to look at them. There was this adorable yorkie and I more or less just felt SO bad for him, so we asked them to let us take him to the play area. Well by the time I left I was crying and unfortunatly my BF surprised me and bought him for me a few days later. It was a no brainer that he was from a puppy mill, I had always heard that rumor about the place but on top of that when I tried to locate the breeder where he was purchased from, I just ran into dead ends. On top of that I had to learn about the NJ pet lemon law the hard way. He had kennel cough from the begining and only later did I know that I could have returned him. A neighbor ended up adopting him six months later. I was VERY honest about my suspitions with her, but she wanted him anyway. He was the worst dog I have ever encountered. He just bit all the tine and ate his poop (I know that puppy mill/pet shop pups do that because they've never seen their poop). Did I mention he bit???? I was so mad at my BF for giving them buissness in the first place! I would never buy a puppy from a place with a bad rep. EVER!
Anyway....... Why is it not possible that top notch yorkies gets her pups from a good place? Or any broker for that fact? Ovbiously I'm not in the breeding world, but not all brokers can be bad. I mean it IS possible that there are some good ones out there. I'm just a little skeptical of generalized judgement is all. I prefer to go by reputation by first hand experience. . |