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Old 02-23-2005, 09:19 PM   #1
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I have been looking for a male puppy for soooo long now. I finally found parents that I absolutly fell in love with. Both of the parents are exactly what I have been looking for at least in the looks department. The breeder said the dogs are wonderful. They are working dogs, and her dogs get trained everyday to detect some sort of desease or something like that. The puppies are due March 24. She said if she had a male in the litter I would get first pick. So far so good, right. Well here is the bad part I found her online (puppyfind.com). I not saying buying from the internet is bad I just never done it before. It gets worse. She lives in Oregon, and I live in Ohio! That is so far from me. So now I cant see where the puppies are being raised and I have to trust what she tells me. Has anybody bought from the internet before? What was your expierence? How did you trust what you were being told? Is there any certain questions I should ask since I cant see for myself everything I should be checking out? How do I know the pictures of the parents are really the parents and not some picture they found off the internet? Sorry so long I just dont know about this internet thing. If anybody else could add anything please do
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even if you see the dogs in person there is no guarantee that the "parents" are actually the parents.... you could ask for lots of pictures of their facility, and weekly update on the pups and or mama ........ im sorry, jsut tell me if im being nosy..... but are you sick??? you said that the dogs sensed diseases
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even if you see the dogs in person there is no guarantee that the "parents" are actually the parents.... you could ask for lots of pictures of their facility, and weekly update on the pups and or mama ........ im sorry, jsut tell me if im being nosy..... but are you sick??? you said that the dogs sensed diseases

lol.. no I am not sick this is something these dogs are just trained to do. I do think the breeder might be ill. I guess I was just trying to make the point that these dogs must have alot of human contact and be well socialized to be able to be working dogs. I never thought of the parents not being the parents when looking at the them in preson. Hmmm something to think about.
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I have been looking for a male puppy for soooo long now. I finally found parents that I absolutly fell in love with. Both of the parents are exactly what I have been looking for at least in the looks department. The breeder said the dogs are wonderful. They are working dogs, and her dogs get trained everyday to detect some sort of desease or something like that. The puppies are due March 24. She said if she had a male in the litter I would get first pick. So far so good, right. Well here is the bad part I found her online (puppyfind.com). I not saying buying from the internet is bad I just never done it before. It gets worse. She lives in Oregon, and I live in Ohio! That is so far from me. So now I cant see where the puppies are being raised and I have to trust what she tells me. Has anybody bought from the internet before? What was your expierence? How did you trust what you were being told? Is there any certain questions I should ask since I cant see for myself everything I should be checking out? How do I know the pictures of the parents are really the parents and not some picture they found off the internet? Sorry so long I just dont know about this internet thing. If anybody else could add anything please do
I have had two "internet" experiences regarding the purchase of dogs. The first one was horrible. I did not get the dog (Hailey, a Brussels Griffon) that arrived via airplane I picked out on the web site. We took Hailey anyway but had to return her for a refund due to a hereditary issue. This time we drove to the breeders, (very long drive)....Not happy with breeder whatsoever!!

The second experience was my Yorkie Half-Pint. The breeder is now my friend. It turned out to be a bittersweet experience as Half-Pint passed away.

I most likely will use the internet again if I do not have any luck finding another Yorkie someday down the road in my own surrounding areas.

Any breeder can make false statements regarding their puppies, in person or over the internet. A lot of how you go about it I feel needs to be time given between both the breeder and the person wanting to adopt to build a relationship, to build trust, and a good report. It all takes time, sometimes may take a very long time but it is worth the wait I think.

Research is my favorite word to use regarding all this.

There are both good and bad in everything in life with people and what not....With good judgement, research, and time given there can be a very happy ending with a internet purchased Yorkie.
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I read a thread on a different forum that someone had purchased on the internet and the dog was shipped. When it arrived the dogs water in the water bowl was frozen. You can only imagine the stress the dog went through. I came close to purchasing a puppy on the internet and after reading the "lil darlings" thread on this forum I am glad I made my purchase locally.
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schatzie- Sorry to hear that your first experience was horrible. That is terrible to hear about Half-Pint. But now Half-Pint is a little doggie angel from up above.

chachi- This breeder will not ship her puppies by themselves. She has heard the same type of horror stories. So I will fly their and pick him up and she will meet me at the airport. I will take him on the plane with me as my carry on and put him under the seat. But I am still not sold yet. I want adopt one of their puppies so bad but never done anything like this before. I guess I still have a little time to think about it the puppies are not due until March 24. So she did not get a deposit yet.

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Hello...I've been lurking for a while now and felt I should share my experience buying puppies off the internet. I bought 3 from 3 different breeders. I have to admit I did alot of research and it was a long process. I ended up getting 3 healthy puppies. They arrived at the airport excited to see us. ( it was exciting for us too!!) If they were stressed they seemed to recover quickly.

They soon are going to celebrate their first b-day and I still hear from 2 of the breeders. I think you need to talk via e-mail or phone alot and go with you're gut feelings. There were a couple of puppies I decided against just because of the non-communication between the breeder and myself.

Anyway it was a good experience for us. Our dogs are healthy and we enjoy them so much!!

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What are you looking for in a male..show, pet ?
Try Breeders.net and Shooterdog.com. There are so many close enough to visit..best wishes
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YorkieRose- No I am not really looking for a show pet. I did want a good quality male reasonably priced of course . Thanks for the links. I will check those out!


Here is the website where you can see the parents of the puppies that are due in March. Shadow's Sweet Flirty is the mom and Sweet Baby Bear Surmiff is the dad. Let me know what you think.

http://www.geocities.com/wilmaruthbu...?1109355587218

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Are the pictures on the site hers? Some of them look very familiar.
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Are the pictures on the site hers? Some of them look very familiar.
As far as I know they are hers. She never siad they were not. I know for sure that Sweet Fancy Shadow, Sweet Baby Bear Surmiff, Shadow's Sweet Flirty, So-Sweet Thunder Pocket and Just Sweet Kisses are hers. I am not to sure of Sweet Sassy Shadow Fox and Shadow Schwerbel she has not spoke about them. Corina Rain and Baby Cates she said in her article that she has rescued them from a puppy mill.
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I agree with CC.
The two "rescues" are the best quality on her site. I would buy local, get on a waiting list and save for a quality male. Best wishes
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I know who 2 of the pics of "rescues" are. Both are UKC Champions.
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I found Miffy on www.puppyfind.com. My breeder is from Arkansas and she has been really helpful in information about the puppy and her parents and well, the process was really painless.
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I'm only about 6 - 7 hours from Ohio. You can visit me anytime. Not sure I'd have anything you would be looking for, but you can look.

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