I didn't know anything about puppy mills until we started research on getting a puppy, but I never owned an animal before last year. I never thought about buying from a pet shop, only because I always thought most of them looked sick. My hubby & I did do research for a year before deciding to get Misha. I have a sm library on books & tons of websites we subcribed to. We didn't go out one day & come home with a pet. I even pet sat for a couple that had a maltese for 2 weeks, while they were on vacation. After joining this site I found out how much a Yorkie is similar to a Maltese, health wise. Piper being both (maltese & yorkie) is how I came to find this site. I needed more information on yorkies. Which I think yorkies are more active. When I go into petshops & see all the people that are buying puppies, I don't think most people know where their coming from either. All they see is how cute they look. Sounds to me your friends don't really know what they are getting into, & it also sounds like their little one isn't going to stay little long. |