| normarae63 | 07-28-2013 06:19 AM |
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Originally Posted by normarae63
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Lynn, try going to the bottom of any page & where you see the Google Search, change it from Internet to Yorkietalk. Then use keywords and you'll find many of the old threads I'm sure, which may help you in your search.
Welcome to YT & thanks for researching before purchasing. As the saying goes "buy your breeder first".
Tuffy is a broker dog we got before I knew such a thing existed. Bella came from show people who'd held her but then discovered she was going to be over the breed standard of 7 pounds. I wouldn't recommend either of the people we got them from.
| Sorry, I forgot to mention that both of my pups are AKC registered. However, had I KNOWN how to properly research breeders when we got Tuffy, we would not have purchased him. He's a great dog, please don't get me wrong, it's just that by purchasing him, we allowed those brokers the space for yet another pup of unknown origins to be sold to an unsuspecting person. This is why I say BUY YOUR BREEDER 1st. Simply having an unaltered AKC dog & then mating that dog is not enough to base buying that puppy who looks so dang cute on a website or in person. It's also how so many pups end up in shelters, with rescues, on CL, puppyfind, and hundreds of other places an outcast pup winds up.
People, it's really up to all of us to stop the indiscriminate breeding of all these dogs. It's truly sickening the huge quantities of healthy dogs that are euthanized every single day in this country & around the world! | 