Why so against about buying from pet store?

[julieandrea]

Originally Posted by OwnedByJezebel

All dogs, including your sweet pup, deserve a good life. Your pup's dam and sire deserve a good life, too, but their life in a puppy mill is horrible. They'll be bred over and over and when they can no longer produce, they'll be killed, tossed away like trash. When you buy from a puppy mill, then they have the money to keep going. See what the parents of your pup are going through:

Humane Society of Missouri Rescued More Than 90 Yorkies from Substandard Puppy Mill - YouTube

And another:

Rescued Yorkies from Substandard Puppy Mill-Specific Dog Case - YouTube

That was one of the saddest videos I've ever seen. It actually brought tears to my eyes. There should be severe punishments for running establishments like this so that people will be less likely to do it!

[Charlies Mamma]

Originally Posted by Ellenkg

MandiesMom- thank u so much for explaining me why my 10th post didnt go through, i thought maybe i was in trouble questioning about pet store lol.

On my 10th post i was explaining why i got my baby from a pet store, is just that as a new mommy i thought it was safer for me to get her from there as they told me that if i had any problem i could call them, they gave me numbers of emergency calls, she came with a microchip, with 3 free vet offices visit, and other really good things that made me think it would be good for me, i just didnt want to get my puppy and not know what to do with it, so i felt safe that way!!! But seeing your posts and picture of puppys mills owww horrible thing, i didnt know, i dont know if mine comes from there, but they gave me the name of her breeder!! But yeah after i learn more and read more i am pretty sure i will make better decisions in the future!!!! Thankx guys

Here is a picture of my baby

Hi Ellen and welcome to YT

First your baby is so cute!! second I hope that some of our posts havent scared you away. The fact is there are topics that can get a ball rolling and sometimes it gets hard to slow it down, Im not saying that the information is wrong just that our expressing of it can come off as harsh to the original poster (you)

There are no bad questions here please always know that if you need to know something, anything, we will be here to help and everyone including myself has asked a question that got some harsh replies, again not at me personally but the subject I brought up.

There is allot of good information here at YT allot of very smart members, use their information to help raise your furbaby you cant go wrong here

[julieandrea]

Originally Posted by Charlies Mamma

Hi Ellen and welcome to YT

First your baby is so cute!! second I hope that some of our posts havent scared you away. The fact is there are topics that can get a ball rolling and sometimes it gets hard to slow it down, Im not saying that the information is wrong just that our expressing of it can come off as harsh to the original poster (you)

There are no bad questions here please always know that if you need to know something, anything, we will be here to help and everyone including myself has asked a question that got some harsh replies, again not at me personally but the subject I brought up.

There is allot of good information here at YT allot of very smart members, use their information to help raise your furbaby you cant go wrong here

Very nicely said IMO. I found some of the replies to be a bit harsh for many of the questions people ask but when you dig deeper you see that the people who are making these suggestions have experience in what they are talking about. The people that are most against pet stores etc are the ones who have purchased from a pet store and have had a bad experience. I'm sure your little guy will be fine. Not all puppies that come from pet stores or back yard breeders will be sick. You were probably not aware of the whole pet store debate before u got him and now u have him so I will pray that your baby is healthy happy and strong! I'm new to the site also and have found many answers to my questions. I love seeing all the beautiful yorkies and I love how informed I am becoming on the breed!

[gracielove]

So You Want To Buy A Puppy At A Pet Store! Now, who would not love a little puppy sitting in the pet store looking so sweet? They are adorable! So what if they were bred in a puppy mill! You are rescuing the poor puppy, right? Who cares about the mother and father dogs still trapped in tiny filthy cages for life?! After all they do feed the dogs.......well...... they feed them as long as they keep producing and then they either kill them there at the facility or drop them along a lonely road. But don't let that bother anyone! A dog should feel privileged to live in a tiny filthy cage pumping out puppies every couple of months so that the lovely people who own the facility can take them away from the mom before they are properly weaned and truck them across the country to some nice well lit store. Only a few babies will die along the way. But don't worry there are plenty where they came from. The ones that live will get cleaned up once they get to the pet store and the owner of the store will start pumping them full of antibiotics and worm medication. They will even give them their puppy shots!

Yeah, many of the pet stores will offer you a convenient payment plan. Just hope your puppy lives longer than the payments do or that you don't need another loan to help with the long term vet bills. Don't forget! If your puppy does get sick you can always take it back for a replacement puppy if you do it within the amount of time stated in your contract. It's just a puppy! You won't mind giving it back to the puppy mill or having it resold in another store!

You know you just may be one the people who gets a puppy that is not sick and does not have kennel cough or parasites. It may not have personality issues or a deformed liver. Maybe it won't have bad knees or hip dysplasia. Maybe you will be the one in a hundred that gets a fairly healthy puppy but you will have just helped the disgustingly foul animal abusers that run the puppy mill. You know, the same people that sit drinking beer while there are hundreds of filthy half starved dogs in the barn hoping that someone will help them. No, you just helped to keep those poor dogs in the most miserable of prisons.

Those puppies in those nice looking pet shops don't need you rescue them. There are many rescues just waiting for the chance to step in to save those puppies. What the puppy's parents need is someone to put the breeders out of business so that humane groups can go in and take those poor animals out of the torture they live in.

Maybe you don't care and just would rather have the convenience of walking in a nicely lit pet store and plopping down the money for a cute looking puppy anyway, BUT, you are part of the problem if you know that those puppies came from such shameful filthy puppy mills and decided to support that kind of industry anyway.

The Puppy Mill Project | Learn the Truth

[Kristy01]

I have heard of people getting puppies from stores and the puppies having serious health issues. I have also heard the same about dogs coming from rescues, a lot of times because you don't have a way of finding out about their background. Some of the puppies from either a store or even at times rescues can have behavioral issues.

[Ellenkg]

GracieLove
I am sorry but i kind of find your post a little bit harsh, you dont know me, and i am not saying i support it, and i am sooorryyyyyy, you say that we dont have to rescue the puppies from the pet store, and you say that i am lucky to have one with a good health, sooooooo you know that maybe they are there sick, but still looking cute and just leave it there just because they come from a pet store, whooooo cares righttt??, " they come from a pet store let them die there and go rescue some other dogs who deserves better" what i am trying to say here, its that they are innocent puppies just like the others, they are just not there " looking good" as you say, lol i just love my baby and i dont regret getting her, i would do it overrr again if i could just to be with her, but maybe as i was saying in my other posts i will be more experienced mommy, learn more and adopt one!!! And its NOT that i dont care about the parents, i even would love to have a phone number to call someone and say the puppie is doing fine, and ask about the mommy, but as i cant i will try to be the best mommy for her and i pray that her parents are doing fine!!!!! Anyway thank you for your opinion, and trust me I am new and i am learning more and more and i understand what u are trying to say just slow down!!!!

[Ellenkg]

By the way,
" just hope that your puppy lives longer than the payments"

Dont worry i will do my best to take care of her even i have to go to China to get a good vet and save her

[octobersongs]

I wish it would be made illegal to have pet stores. I tear up when I see those poor little babies in a cage. Yesterday I was at a pet store and there were yorkies, chihuahuas, and many other breeds, most of them only 6 weeks old..far too young to be away from their mother. Breaks my heart. By buying from a petstore yes, you are supporting the puppy mills, but also...these animals are innocent. They have no control over being born to a breeder or being born to a puppy mill or pet store. I feel that they need a loving home just as much as the others do. If petstores were made illegal, that would end the never ending battle I have within myself. I do feel that pet stores support puppy mills and that is very wrong, however, I also feel that the animal needs love and warmth no matter how they were brought into the world.

[octobersongs]

to add-it is very probable that the pet store/puppy mill dogs have been cross breaded. That means the possibility of health problems increases. It is so sad that there are people in this world who treat these incredible dogs so harshly. Breeding them often and keeping them in harsh conditions is so horrible. I hope they all suffer in the end. I look forward to the day of meeting such a person. What's with the government, anyway? Puppy mills are ALL OVER THE WORLD. Why hasn't the government made pet stores illegal? What benefit does it have for the economy? The only benefit I see is for the puppymills behalf..this is such a tough subject to talk about.

[Micah my love]

You will find lots of good info here on YT...I hope that you will stay, there are many nice members here always ready to help with whatever your need may be

Lully is a cutie

[Verbena]

Hello and welcome to YT. First of all your pup is cute.

We have a passionate bunch here. The one thing you need to understand is that we are all here for one reason. . . .The Yorkie! . . . We want what is best for the breed. Some of our memebers are reputable breeders, some work with rescues, some foster, vet techs or lovers of the breed. But we have all witnessed the horrors that people have and are going though with sick pups. We are hear for them with support or just a shoulder to cry on. So please understand this is why people are fired up about this subject. It is not because they are being mean. It is because they have seen it. Now everyone go hug your pup

[julieandrea]

Originally Posted by MI Yorkielover

You've touched on a hot topic on YT for all the reasons posted so I'm not going to be repetitive but I do want to say that your little Lully looks adorable in your avatar and this is a great site to learn all about yorkies and their special care moving forward. Welcome to YT

I don't mean to go off topic here but MI yorkielover, I've seen some CUTE yorkies but holy cow is your girl ever pretty! Just noticed when I was looking at all the avatars and I had a little creep through your album! What an adorable girl you have

[KazzyK810]

Your money is your voice & your power.

If you don't support puppy mills, you don't give a single dollar of your money to stores that make their living off them. You don't buy animals from them, food from them, clothing from them...anything from them. If they don't sell, they don't make money. If they don't make money, they go out of business.

[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by Ellenkg

GracieLove
I am sorry but i kind of find your post a little bit harsh, you dont know me, and i am not saying i support it, and i am sooorryyyyyy, you say that we dont have to rescue the puppies from the pet store, and you say that i am lucky to have one with a good health, sooooooo you know that maybe they are there sick, but still looking cute and just leave it there just because they come from a pet store, whooooo cares righttt??, " they come from a pet store let them die there and go rescue some other dogs who deserves better" what i am trying to say here, its that they are innocent puppies just like the others, they are just not there " looking good" as you say, lol i just love my baby and i dont regret getting her, i would do it overrr again if i could just to be with her, but maybe as i was saying in my other posts i will be more experienced mommy, learn more and adopt one!!! And its NOT that i dont care about the parents, i even would love to have a phone number to call someone and say the puppie is doing fine, and ask about the mommy, but as i cant i will try to be the best mommy for her and i pray that her parents are doing fine!!!!! Anyway thank you for your opinion, and trust me I am new and i am learning more and more and i understand what u are trying to say just slow down!!!!

Your going to have to take the blinders off and realize her parents aren't doing fine they are breeders in a puppy mill and its like a living hell for them. You have your puppy now so that is what it is you didn't know but now you do so we would hope that you would chose to not do it again. I also hope you pup doesn't have health issues like a lot of us have had with our dogs who came from puppy mills.

[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by octobersongs

I wish it would be made illegal to have pet stores. I tear up when I see those poor little babies in a cage. Yesterday I was at a pet store and there were yorkies, chihuahuas, and many other breeds, most of them only 6 weeks old..far too young to be away from their mother. Breaks my heart. By buying from a petstore yes, you are supporting the puppy mills, but also...these animals are innocent. They have no control over being born to a breeder or being born to a puppy mill or pet store. I feel that they need a loving home just as much as the others do. If petstores were made illegal, that would end the never ending battle I have within myself. I do feel that pet stores support puppy mills and that is very wrong, however, I also feel that the animal needs love and warmth no matter how they were brought into the world.

If the puppy's don't sell they will go to rescues more then likely or the price will have to be dropped so low that the pet store loses money. If the pet store loses enough money they stop doing it or shut down. The puppy's always get a home.