Concerned with the advertisement on here
 

:animal36Hello fellow Yorkie Lovers!
I am concerned with the Puppy Petite (aka Puppy Boutique) in Brooklyn, NY advertisement on this site. That place is one of the worst places to get a puppy from and I don't think it should be advertised on such a nice site. They get their puppies from puppy mills and almost all of them are sick. I know from experience because I got my Yorkie from them and she had a liver shunt and spent her life sick because she was breed in such horrible conditions. If you google "puppy boutique" you will see what I am talking about. There are tons of bad reviews about that place and they all sound very similar. It saddens me that a wonderful site like this that is for people who love their dogs so much has an advertisement for a horrible place like that. I hope that you will take it down so that no one has to go through what I and many others have watching their precious baby suffer.
Please lets atleast get it out to there for people NOT to EVER go there.
Thank you :aimeeyork

its funny you should mention this particular botique, because thats where I got my dog from. I just want to say that I am 100% satisfied with my pup. he is in great health and was when i got him. he is also a very smart dog. im sure maybe 2 out of 100 people get a dog with issues, but im sure that happens with breeders too..... the rest of the puppys at puppy petite were in clean conditions and well taken care of (better than ANY pet store ive seen) they give you a health guarentee and a free visit to the vet. they also educate you about the risks of hypoglycemia and send you home with food,nutrical,antibiotics(just incase), and some karo for the hypoglycemia. i never had a problem with it(hypoglycemia). im not saying that there the greatest place on earth, but i tried getting a pup from a breeder and its HARD! they are soooo friggin expensive and some people have ridiculous rules and lengthy applications and it was so much easier with puppy petite. i will most likely get my next one from there. im sure alot of you dont agree with that, but maybe you should make it a little bit easier and LESS EXPENSIVE to get a pup from a breeder and people wouldent go to stores as much. its all about the money to EVERYONE, otherwise the pups would be free to a good home!!!! i sure the breeders care for there pups a great deal, but it IS a business to them. you cant deny that. in short, i have no quarrels with puppy petite!!

:thumbup: I couldn't agree more. I don't think pet stores selling puppies should be allowed to advertise here, either.

I am so sorry about your fur baby.
Perhaps stricter guidlelines on advertisers should be enforced.

:thumbup::thumbup: Seems so contrary to what we believe in.

Omg!
 

Consumer complaints about The Puppy Boutique, Brooklyn, NY omg i just found this website and i guess i have to take back what i said?? im so scared that something is gonna happen to my dog?? or maybe im just the opne lucky one?? oh man im so scared now!

Pet store puppies come from puppy mills and are poorly bred. Many carry genetic "time bombs" for conditions that don't go off for many years. Unfortunately, just because a puppy is healthy initially doesn't mean he will stay healthy.

You can get a free report on the background of a pet shop puppy here. Your report will tell you which puppy mill he came from, USDA inspections, how many animals the mill has, if the breeder in on the AKC suspension list, etc.

Free Puppy Report

I don't understand why you are so scarred over reading this. Is it because you believed they were so good? How old is your yorkie? It sounds like he's over the puppy stages and doing well. So consider yourself lucky to have won the lottery with him. Now maybe you can understand why reputable breeders charge what they charge for their healthy puppies.

Personally, I chose rescue every time, but that's me. We just got Bijou from a rescue and she's a nine week old puppy. I looked for about 8 months before I found a yorkie puppy within 5 hours driving distance of me. So it can happen, you just have to be willing to wait and be persistent. Good luck in either choice you make with your next baby.

As for this advertisement I think it should be pulled too! We all love dogs and would never approve of the environment that a puppy mill puppy comes from so why would we want to support a show that does? Not me!!! :mad:

This is an awesome link!!! Thank you for sharing!!!

I find it very interesting this is the second time in that many days that Petite Puppies has been brought up. Just yesterday there was a "new member" banned who had a puppy from Petite Puppies. She too bought her yorkie from this PUPPYMILL and was having many issues with him. Now today there is another "new member" who was also purchased from there as well. Not sure if this is a coincidence or not.

Legitimate breeders are not the issue or the amount of money that someone charges for their puppies in NOT a reason to purchase from a puppymill.

It does not matter if you have a puppy that is healthy and it came from a mill. That is not the point of putting puppymills out of business. The suffering and cruelty that goes on within the mills is the issue as well as all of the sick puppies that come from these places. Not only do some of these puppies huge medical issues there are also the many heartbroken owners that are forced to make decision about sick puppies. Some die, some are PTS, some are turned over to rescue for medical treatment and some are treated by their unsuspecting owners who made uneducated decisions to add a new member to their family. Take a look at any Yorkie rescue and you will see some of the breeding females that these places used and abused. They ALL are a mess and have huge medical issues from years of abusive over breeding. Many have genetic defects that have been passed on to their many litters. IMO anyone who knowingly makes a decision to purchase from a puppymill needs to educate themselves about puppymills. I believe that in order to "promote" something whatever it might be you need to be educated on the subject.

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: Can't agree more , do your homework
bark@ulater!!!!
manina,miley:aimeeyork,max:aimeeyork

If I'm reading this correctly, you are talking about the ads that are on the pages you are reading, like at the bottom of the page? If so, these are usually there by google and are usually based on what topic you may be reading about. If there is the mention of say a different type of dog say a Bichon, you may see something on Bichons....this site really doesn't have control over that.

If it is a actual ad for the boutique, then maybe contact Admin. with your concerns.

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Yeah that's what I was thinking too. Yorkietalk has no power on choosing which ads google uses, and these ads are generally directed at what a person's specific searches have been related to. You can use a spyware eliminator program to keep tracking down, but that's all you can do besides continue to warn others about them.

That was my first thought too... I'm not sure if YT has any control over those ads. To the OP... are those the ads you are talking about?

Someone always beats me to posting while I'm typing and then I just sound like an echo. LOL. :p

Glad to see you are keeping an open mind about this issue, your dog is probably perfectly fine, and it's not the way the dogs are treated in the store that bothers some of us, it how the breeding pair are kept. These dogs are kept in substandard conditions, and bred to death. Because it's a business, profit is the number one priority. Puppies are often taken away from mothers too early, and many die on the journey to the pet store, but this doesn't matter because they have found that it's easier to sell a younger puppy and that all and they want, a quick turn over, so if one out of 10 dies, big deal. I hope you have no problem with you puppy, and puppy mill dogs are at no more health risks than backyard breeders dogs, who haven't educated themselves on proper breeding and genetic problems. To find a puppy with lower health risks you have to find a quality breeder, but because they are not in the business of selling dogs, they will be very picky about choosing a home for their dogs, wouldn't you be too?

How about my next post, did I beat you again? :D

Is the income from YT not enough to just simply drop the Google ads???? I believe that the admin needs to take a serious look at these ads. I have seen others that I also questioned.
This is for income to pay for the YT server and all, but surely there is a better way?
Is the income from YT public information? What I am asking is if this is a for profit message board.

Here's a link that shows some data about YorkieTalk (ad revenue, etc).

www.yorkietalk.com estimated worth and web stat from Cubestat

I don't think that is accurate. I just put my own website in and it is nothing like the data that came up.

I actually don't think that YT is hugely profitable; the owner started this as a service. Remember it's free to anyone, and donating members are only required to pay a one time fee of $25.00, and that's for life. If it weren't for the google ads, I don't think we would be allowed to have many of the amenities found on YT, such as profile pages, and albums, and many people really love and use these features. I imagine this requires a lot of bandwidth, and to get this at reasonable price, you have to work with places like google. Also google helps YT become better known. Yorkietalk keeps all of it's pages, unlike many forums, and you can look up threads that were here from the beginning, most forums have to delete old threads because of bandwidth cost. They do have a calendar sale once a year, and I think that's their biggest money maker, and I hope everyone supports this. I don't know of any other sites that offer so much for so little.

More or less?

I was talking about the ad on the Home page. I did email Admin about this and they did explain to me that google handles the ads (which I had no clue obviously) but they would look into it. It just upset me when I saw that because it contradicts what this site is about. I didn't know that Puppy Petite was a horrible place until after I already got my puppy almost 5 yrs ago there. She just died last month and although she was the cutest thing ever, she was very sick. Then I started hearing all these horror stories and now I want to make sure that no one goes there for their puppies. Whether you luck out and get a healthy one there or not, they are still from puppy mills and we shouldn't be supporting them. People say that they don't want to go to breeders because they are too expensive but believe me on this...it's a lot more expensive getting a sick dog. I spent $1100 for Hailey (my yorkie from there) but after all the emergency room, vet, medication and special food I spent about $10,000 total. So now I would give my savings just to get a healthy puppy. Watching your baby suffer is so heartbreaking and I don't even like to think about what they do to them in those places. Please spread the word and lets do what we can to stop them.:)

I am not saying that it is hugely profitable. I am merely saying there are other ways to make money if it is needed.
I have two servers (which my son runs and pays for) with pretty much unlimited storage so I do know the cost of running them.
As for the search engines, you do not need to run google ads to move up in the rankings. That is not the criteria.
I am merely asking and honestly I would be happy to donate more if that was needed to avoid having ugly sites profiting off of Yorkie Talk which is basically what is happening.

When you sign up to run ads on Google, you can specify topics....if you specify dogs, unfortunately you are going to be advertising for pet stores and mills and whoever else is profiting off the backs of defenseless animals.

Here is a link to more information:

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/ads/ads_1.html

Yorkie Haven signed up for adsense and quickly dropped it when we saw the ads that popped up.
We did not need money that badly.
Perhaps the admin has not really looked at these things. I am glad that someone contacted him.

I'm not real sure how they would figure net worth. As far as ad revenue goes, it's easy to see that no one is getting rich with YorkieTalk if the numbers are any where close to accurate.

What numbers are you referring to? Do you know how many people visit YT daily and perhaps click on the links?
I did not think anyone had access to that except the people running their own websites.
There is plenty of money to be made if you have the traffic!

I'm referring to the numbers in the link I posted a few posts back.
www.yorkietalk.com estimated worth and web stat from Cubestat
It shows the net worth, ranking and daily ad revenue. I guess every site is tracked in some way but I have no knowledge if these rankings are accurate.