How Awful Is This?!?!

[TinkerToy]

I found this website when I was looking for puppies http://www.stopwizardofclaws.com/ . After I read this I was very upset. I just can't believe people would not care about poor innocent puppies like that, and not have any problem with stomping on someone's trust . I am a good christian women and am not going to say what I think of these people, but I will say it is not nice. What makes me really sick is that I thought about buying a puppy from these people about a year ago. My heart just hurts for these poor puppies. What do you think?

[aimee]

I'm with you. It's just scary. There are a lot of very trusting people who would never imagine someone would sell them a dog or misrepresent themselves. I makes me sick to my stomach to think of what some of these poor animals have to go through

[StewiesMom]

I saw your link to the site on the other post about the "Wizard of Claws". Its horrible. I really can't understand how people can be so greedy. Also, puppypetite.com is another site that is just as awful, but on a smaller scale. They advertise all over the Internet as well.

[kb_jesee]

I read that, and I cannot believe it! I can't believe they would like to people's faces. This makes me very mad.

I sometimes wonder about my pups, Bella is 10 pounds and Keena is 6 pounds, The lady told me keena was teacup... Maybe I fed them too much or what but I am not sure...I cant believe how big they are...

[Cielo]

HERE'S AN ARTICLE THAT I FOUND ON A LINK FROM www.chiwantone.com/success.html . . . IT'S SOOO SAD WHAT MILLS PUT ANIMALS THROUGH . . .

Dying For Dollar$
Going to the mall?
You're in the mall, and you just have to stop and look at those
cute little doggies playing in the window of the pet shop. You go
in, almost in spite of yourself, and before you know it, you have
one of those cute little darlings in your arms, or you're sitting on
the floor in a puppy room with a little one to cuddle. “How
much?" you ask, finding the licks and tail wags impossible to
resist. “Only $600,” the salesperson says. “Special this week.
He was $950.” And the next thing you know, you're walking out
of the pet shop with a puppy all your own.

You probably have no idea that you are helping to finance one of
the biggest torture machines in the animal world. Puppy mills,
where the majority of pet shop puppies come from, are cesspits
of filth and disease, where dogs are kept confined in cages all
their lives -- till their feet are deformed and their fur falls away
from their bodies in mats.

The mother of the puppy you hold in your arms is probably
exhausted, starving, sick; has never run on the grass in a yard or
felt loving arms cuddle her. She has never known kind voices or
a full meal or a warm clean bed to sleep in. She has never been
brushed. She sleeps on wire. Her toenails will grow around until
they cut into her pads. She will pace back and forth
compulsively, if her cage is big enough for her to move. Feces
and urine may drop down on her from the other little dogs in
cages stacked above her. She shivers in winter and pants in
summer, with no shelter to protect her from freezing winds or
blazing sun. She may die this month, from any of a number of
ailments. If not, she might wish she did -- if she could wish.

She will die young -- whether from neglect and abuse or from
being shot when she no longer produces puppies for sale. She
will not be “adopted.” She will not be loved. She will die alone.
Your new puppy's litter mates may have died in the cage with
him in the truck on the way to the store. They were only five or
six weeks old, after all -- too young to eat dog food, too sick to
care, too lonesome for their mother. Your puppy is one of the
“lucky” ones. But another puppy you saw in there just last week
was not so lucky. He was sick. He died because it would have
cost the pet shop too much money to call a vet to have him
treated. So they let him die.

Yours may die too, if he has a congenital defect -- something
puppy mill breeders do not care about. Kidney failure, blindness,
hip dysplasia, deafness, behavioral problems ... the list goes on
and on. Will you be attached enough to your puppy to get it to a
doctor? Or will it die too? If it is sick or does die, the pet shop
will not give you back your money. They'll give you another
puppy instead. That's how they make their money. Puppies are
cheap.

To irresponsible pet shops and to puppy mills, puppies are not
lives. They are livestock and inventory -- something to be
thrown away if defective. They either don't believe or don't care
that dogs suffer pain, hunger, loneliness, fear. It doesn't fit into
the bottom line, and all they care about is their profit margin.
And how many people don't really think about what's involved
before they fork out the money for that little doggie in the
window? How many of those pets will end up dumped by the side
of the road, or in a shelter, only to be put to death when no one
comes in to adopt them? Far too many. Animals are dying for
want of homes, but the puppy mills don't care. They just keep
breeding more, and more, and more. And how many people
leave the pet shop with a puppy only to find that they really do
not have the personality to have a pet -- or that their pet's
personality doesn't mesh well with theirs?

If you want a dog, if you REALLY want a dog, please don't go to a
pet shop. Please go to a shelter and adopt a dog who otherwise
will die -- you'd be amazed and sickened to learn how many
purebreds end up this way -- Or go to a reputable breeder, who
cares about the dogs and who raises them in a home where they
are socialized and cared for and where they learn how to be
loving pets. And their prices and guarantees for pet quality
healthy purebreds are much better than the unknown quality
pups in a pet store.

[kp&nala]

i visited that website and some others about puppy mills....it was the worst thing i've ever seen and it broke my heart. tears constantly rolled down my cheeks as i read the stories and looked at the pics i don't understand how people could treat any animal like that and to be quite honest it makes me mad as hell!!!!! i wish i could bring all them home with me. after i got nala i instantly decided that i wanted another yorkie and after being a member of YT and reading about rescue and puppy mills i've decided i would rather adopt/rescue one when the time is right. i just wish everyone would/could adopt 1 or 2 puppy mill dogs, but i know there would still be others left there. we have a wonderful animal shelter here where i live and to this day i can't go in b/c it breaks my heart to see all those dogs with no homes i can't even stand seeing them on the side of the road. sorry i'm going on and on guess i just needed to vent?

[kp&nala]

this will break your heart
http://www.puppymillrescue.com/Aplea.htm

[iheartyorkies]

People who run puppy mills lack any common decency at all!! This mind-set, at its core, has no respect for life or living things . If these people could make a buck trafficing in human babies they probably would!! The best thing we can do is to get the word out when someone exposes them for what they are. I'm a Christian woman too so I'll just say that these people could probably use our prayers so that they would rise above the depraved lifestyle that they are in. I'll climb down off my soapbox now. Thanks for the post and thanks for listening!!

[natalie]

Oh my god, people out there are so cruel. Dogs are such innocent pets with feelings. I can't stand the look on their faces when I walked through my city's dog kennel to try and adopt a pet. They all looked so sad, just sitting there staring at nothing. I mean, all they want is just some attention and someone to play with. Ughk! Selfish human beings sicken me.

[luvdorkyyorkies]

I think a common misrepresentation in the yorkie breed is if you feed it to much it will get big.
A puppies food should never be limited. Its all genetics, a yorkie will be small or large because of that, not because of feeding it to much. Of course if you recieve a puppy who has been deprived of food they may appear smaller because they are malnourished........but they will probably act sick or look sick.....(eye drainage, dull coat, not active)
As an adult, your yorkie may become overweight, because of them eating to much and you may need to manage that one day, but based on your yorkies frame and height that determines their end size.
Misjudging the size of a yorkie by a breeder by ignorance is one thing but blatant lying is another. Yorkies are hard to determine because of their heritage, thats why I try to take a litter history on my yorkies. You can somewhat judge the size at 8 weeks but even then its iffy, 3 months is a better judgement.
But if you were told you had a 4 lb yorkie at adult size and end up with a 10 lb yorkie...........lol........thats alot of ignorance or alot of lying.

In the world we live in, its very hard to tell the good guys from the bad.

[bettyeanne]

The only way to stop people like this is through laws and there just aren't enough people who care to lobby for them! Even where there are laws in place ... they aren't enforced. It's just a vicious cycle!!

[fasteddie]

The best way to warn people is to spread the word as much as you can. Alert any Yorkie websites and potential Yorkie owners, but the as bettyeanne says, the laws just aren't there so people constantly get away with puppy mills, etc.

[TinkerToy]

I don't understand why if you mistreat a child they take them away and you get punished, but if you mistreat a dog not many people know about. I don't think there is enough regulation on breeding. One of the worst things is that it gives other breeders a bad rap. I mean when I see a stray animal it takes everything in me to not open my car door and bring them home iwth me. I want to know how those people sleep at night.

[lilbumbleybees]

I can't believe people like this! You don't get out of prison to be bad again, you get out for a second chance! People AMAZE me sometimes with how cruel they can be! I hope they get shut down, as do all pet stores that sell pets b/c in the end, that's what it will take to hopefully shut down puppy mills. It's a LONG road, but not an impossible one!

[lilbumbleybees]

Originally Posted by TinkerToy

I mean when I see a stray animal it takes everything in me to not open my car door and bring them home iwth me. I want to know how those people sleep at night.

I completely agree with you TinkerToy. I have come home with so many animals, fostering them out to new GOOD homes. But I can't take every single one and it kills me inside everytime I see a stray. I don't understand people that can just breed and breed and not take care of their little ones. Dogs are just "dogs". They have feelings, emotions, and love. It just makes me SO angry!