P.S. Everything else aside...her website does not say BREEDS Yorkies, it says RAISES Yorkies. :thumbdown :thumbdown :thumbdown

Robbie, I found her on a Yorkie Breeder list on the Internet. I called her and spoke to her at great length. I asked if the parents were on site so I could see them and she assured me they were. We drove over 3 hours. She is lovely and her home is lovely....I later found out she is not a breeder but a broker....and did not know a thing about the background of my puppy. One thing led to another and by the time we drove back home I knew we were in deep trouble..... :thumbdown

:cool: :cool: Everyone anxious to help here, Honey :cool: :cool:

What was wrong with your puppy? Maybe if someone reads this they can learn to avoid somthing that let to a bad situation with your pup. Anyway, I hope that everything is ok with your puppy. Let us know.

i`d be carefull, before you buy the doggie, MAKE SURE that his/her ears are already propped up. We bought Bugsy[male] and the breeder told us that the ears will go up, just don`t be playing around with them, so we didn`t play with them, we waited about 3 weeks, and my sister gave up, went onto the internet and it said to tape them up, so we did so, and it ripped off his hair!! And we used to exact tape the internet told us to, so make sure that their proped up!

Did you already buy the puppy from this breeder ?
The dogs ears need to be taped up. if you are concerned about pulling the hair wrap a thin piece of gauze pad around the ear first and then tape.
If you do not tape them they will prolly not stay up on their own. Sometimes even when they are already up they fall during teething but still need taping.

I noticed that some one on here also commented on her only having Yorkies. Things aren't always as they seem. There are a lot of breeders out there that breed tons of different dogs, and have a separate web site for each breed. A local breeder here "Appletail Yorkies" also breeds a ton of other kinds of dogs, and on each of their web sites they make it sound as if that was the only type of dog they raise.

One way to check this out is to go to Puppydogweb.com and go to your state (or the state your purchasing a dog from) and see if that breeder is listed. then scroll through all of the other breeds and check the phone numbers and see if the same number is listed under other breeds. The name won't be the same. Appletail Yorkies is also Holly hock Havanese and Precious Pappions (or something like that) and not to mention anyother names they may go buy.

There are tons of people on here that have puppies for sale. We are expecting two litters this month from our two girls. I would love to sell you one for a lot less than $2000. I don't have a web site set up yet (I'm not sure I'll get one, we will probably only have two litters a year), but I'm sure that most of the people on here have pups just as cute at these.

I agree Anna, you can find yorkies for less than $2,000. It's a touchy area when you have been ripped off or purchased a very sick pup from someone and you see another person interested in buying from that person. I don't think anyone was attacking anyone in this post. I got ripped off from a guy in FL with 30 other people. My pup didn't die but many others did, and we all had vet big vet bills. Some had vet bills of $2,400 and the pup still died. It was all very heartbreaking !! His web site looked great and the pups were darling. 7 of us thought we had bought the pup named Fendi. He said he was the breeder, they had AKC papers, he sent pictures of the parents, health guarantees, vet checked, etc. When I picked up my tiny pup that was supposed to be 11 wks ( yeah right , he was about 6 wks!) at the airport he just STUNK like blood and poop. He was sooo sick and coughing and bloody stool, but he made it thank God! We all worked on getting this guy put out of business for 1 1/2 yrs. We found out he was gettin the pups from Brazil ( and found the breeder in Brazil) , false vet health certs. for shipping, no AKC papers ( akc had never heard of him) pup were to young to ship, and never callled anyone back, same picture of the parents sent to the 30 of us, I could go on and on. It wasn't about the $$ it was about these poor pups that were so, so sick and getting him shut down! Nobody seemed to care and we kept on bugging the police, lemon law( thats a joke) FBI, the airline that shipped all these sick pups, and FINALLY he is jail for fraud and selling sick pups, to name a few. :D We all get our $13.73 check each month from the Flordia corrections Dept. ;) I thought I had asked the right questions and his web was so nice. Live and learn. Sorry this was so long. I can't stop when I get thinking about all this. I guess we would all have to agree that get proof of what is promised in writing, and if something seems " not right", RUN!

Wow what a horrible ordeal for you to have gone through. Thankfully your little one survived. It is so disheartening to hear of how cruel and unscupulous some people can be over live animals. Anything goes to make a dishonest $. It was so good of you to post this entire story.Even if it makes just one person think first and not get into such a heartbreaking situation. That is what is so wonderful about Yorkie Talk...we can share our stories and hopefully help others to avoid the bad situations that some of us have found ourselves in.

Well I bought one from Country Home yorkies and questioned all the things she did but didn;t know any better I loved the puppy and was willing to pay whatever for her and I mean more than $2000.00 call me DUMB !!! If I look back I see know but at the time you fall for the moment I have a write mind to send her an nasty email but for what, I love the puppy and she is doing fine now anyway. For the money I paid she should be calling me everyday to see how she is, since she was so small when I got her and she was so worried (she says anyway). That what gets me didn't even respond to my email.