This isn't about memory this is about being a professional responsible breeder. I'm not a breeder, but if I were, I would keep a list of people's names to whom I had sold Yorkies, and I would list their puppy’s mom and dad’s name. I would also keep in contact with them and see how the dogs were doing over the years, so that I could better understand my line. I would not sell breeding dogs to others for years and years and years until I knew my lines backwards and forwards, and every which way. If you don't keep any lists and rely on your memory, which you admit is poor, how do you even know if you have trouble with certain lines? Maybe you don’t want to know.

The people respomding on here are pet owners not breeders

then I guess you better DNA your champion and his mother and Father that came from my house. It's to bad the puppy I was getting back got parvo at your house.

Natalie, is it true, as someone stated, that you are no longer allowed to be a "Featured Breeder" at Yorkietalk?

No it is not this is my choice. and it is not very hard to be a featured breeder on yorkie talk all you have to do is Pay your 75.00 fee

wow, just incredible wow....such typical statements...blame the new owner...omg, I'm sorry but I honestly think you need to re-evaluate everything about your business.

that is the puppy you owed me from the female I bred that you never paid for that came from my so called free for all. You asked me to have Joann trust you and you said you would either pay her 2 puppies back or cash when you sold them and she never received a dime for her. So actually how good is your word to people. It is sad that you had to rip a little older lady off to make your champion male from my male who came from my free for all.

Thanks for telling me this.

Is this cut/pasted from Tanisha Bretons website or from the Cornell site? Please include proper documentation when posting quotes, I couldn't find it. Do you have the link, perhaps It is I who is searching wrong? Thanks

I honestly did not expect her to remember me just by my name. I have a super common name. However, she didn't ask for my address or any other information besides who my dogs parents were. That's it.

Then she told me it couldn't have been too bad because it took this long to show up.

I also have every single e-mail and not once... not one single time ...did Natalie ever say she was sorry for my loss...NOT ONCE. I have every e-mail and I just read through them again to see if by chance I missed it. Nope, never happened.

Only the suggestion that another puppy would help with the loss after I declined paying for another puppy from her because it's too painful to think of getting another pet right now. I was kind, I thanked her for the offer(of selling me a puppy for $800). I e-mailed her the day my baby died to let her know it was AAI, to say I was in shock would be an understatement.

Then I talked to my husband about posting a review. He encouraged me to. The next e-mail I received from her was the threat to call a lawyer. Actually,after everything I've found out about her, I should have been the one making that threat. I'm not. I don't want anything from her. I just wanted to warn people and not have this happen to anyone else out there.

Makemepretty...thank you for sharing your experience, sadly it is not uncommon...I've actually heard many stories like yours before.

Natalie, I am glad you also voiced your rebuttal. IMHO it is weak, I know of many breeders here on YT who would not be in the same situation as you. It seems to me that you are overbreeding, carelessly breeding unethically breeding.

I am not an expert on breeding but I am well versed on unethical breeding...your website, your OWN statements...the experience that makemepretty shared throw up many, many, many, redflags and let me add again that many of the breeders here squeed when they read your responses. If nothing else, your lack of documenting (I don't know breeders terminology) and record keeping is pisspoor.

I wonder, is it really worth it? To be cast in this light?, could you accept this as a wakeup call that perhaps you need to scale down, start over, do things right or close shop? Perhaps you need to take an inner inventory of yourself...perhaps you don't care...perhaps? I hope you do whats best, and its not too late to privately and sincerely apologize to this poor girl who suffered a tragedy...isn't that really what its about? Have you lost your human compassion for your pups and customers?

Lynzy, thank you for your kind words.

I do hope Natalie will either rethink her breeding or discontinue it. I saw she had posted about her dams sizes but if you look at this link from just a couple years ago, it said she had no problem with breeding 3 & 4 lbs females:

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...ng-home-4.html

Unfortunately, according to what past puppy buyers are finding out, there are some major problems popping up from her practices.

This all makes me sick how mean people can be ...
 

You are all picking on a woman who is honest and runs a very reputable Yorkie business. I have known Natalie for years and have 5 of her Yorkies. They are beautiful dogs in great health. Why don't you all go pick on someone else and leave the poor woman alone !!!!!!! You should all be ashamed of yourselves !!!!

Exactly, she is running a business. A business has the biggest interest in turning a profit. An excellent breeder would be more interested in bettering the breed, not turning a profit, and helping to stop the yorkie breed from going more and more away from the stated standard. You have no idea how many times I get people that say they think yorkies are supposed to be 3 lbs full grown, with black and tan fluffy (cotton) hair, short muzzles and tiny ears. All that is contrary of the standard.

No one is saying her yorkies are show quality. Pet quality was fine with me, however her yorkies are having a shorter life span and genetic problems and cottony coats and dying as puppies. I am not the only one who has had this problem. Search online, search through yorkietalk, other members have also had genetic problems with her line.

I'm not naming names but one person bought $16,000 worth of dogs from her and the the majority of them had to be fixed because of their genetic problems. I paid $4,500, I know of more people who paid her thousands of dollars and did not get what they were promised. She's not in this to make great quality pets and find the perfect home for them. She doesn't check up on who buys her puppies, she gets their money and good luck to them. Did you not read through all 5 pages? Can you not see the couple of lies she's already told?

I'm glad you have a happy healthy dog/puppy from her. Count your blessings. I'm really happy for you because I don't want you to have to go through what I did. I'm not calling her names, I'm not saying she's a mean person. I'm saying exactly what happened when I purchased from her, as are others. These are not opinions. No one is picking on her. She sold dogs and puppies with health problems that will last years if they live that long. Period.