jadjem,
There has ALWAYS been a black market for small breed dogs.
Many will steal them to use as bait in training dogs to fight, others will sell them to laboratories to use as lab animals and others will often times steal them just to turn around and sell them to people that don't care about papers and so on...sometimes this turns out to be a puppy miller but more often I think they turn out to just be pet homes.
Sad, but true.
