yorkie in pet store
 

I was on my home from work today and to stop at the pet store to pick up guinnee pig shavings and food as well as dog treat, and they had two yorkies in cages :mad: . I gotta tell you it broke my heart to see them in there and to force myself to go after holding them. I know I know no pet stores!!!! :( oh but they looked so sad in those cages. I wanted to buy them sooooo bad they were sooooo adorable but couldnt bring myself to support pet stores. Please someone tell me I did the right thing.

sue

I agree about the pet stores but I would have felt the same way as you. Probably only the price would have kept me from getting them out of the cage. I'm too weak!

No--you Did The Right Thing! Just Think About Their Momma In That Mill Pumping Out A Litter Every Heat. If You Buy--you Support This. I Know It's Hard But You Have To Be Strong. =) Good Job!

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Okay you for sure did the right thing, but you can do even more. STOP buying anything from them. It's supporting their business, and I know it may be a hassle to find a new supplier...but in the end...it might be saving puppies later down the road it they cannot stay in business! I know it's so sad in there and any little step we can take to not help them is good.

You did the right thing, I bet it was expensive. How much were they?

I totally agree! I really think you did do the right thing. And maybe, like some others have said, you should find other places such as PetsMart, PetCo, Target, Wal-Mart that don't buy things from puppy mills because you'll be giving them more revenue + profit to buy more puppies from puppy mills. :p

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I agree, but I do know how you felt. I too almost bought a yorkie from a pet store about 18 mnths ago. I am glad I did not. I shop at Petsmart because hey do not sell any animals, other than those of the rat variety, fish and adoption rescue animals. I have a Pet City here in town that is right down the street from where I live, it is very convenient for me on the way home to stop there to get food, etc. I do not go there, I go out of my way up to Petco or Petsmart becuase they do not have animals. The Pet City usually has betwen ten and twenty dogs and about 10 kittens, and then rabbits, etc. The place reeks of animal waste and urine. I feel extremely sorry for the animals, but buying one would aid in perpetuating the mill situation.

I usually go to petco or petsmart but I was in a hurry and happened to be right there by this pet store. I know i did the right thing but it was heartbreaking. :( . when I saw them I asked to hold the smallest one and the girl was like ohhh hold on i'll clean her for you. I guess it was good thing I asked to see her because as she was taking her out I could see the feces stuck to her fur on the back side :mad: . So they bathed her and dried her and put a bow on her. Otherwise this poor thing would have been sitting there with poop stuck on her. How does one see these puppies being born and then just give them to a petshop to stick in a cage. I would love to stick one of those breeders in a cage like these puppies. Allthough I did stop two people from buying a puppy while I was there :D . As I was waiting to see the puppy, (I had my shepherd training club jacket on) I was aked a few questions cause they thoyght I worked there,lol. I said to one couple "you see how these puppies are in a cage" he says yes, I go" you know they are unsocialized. are now accustomed to pooping in thier cage, and I can gaurantee you there will be health problems (cause the puppy was coughing).
I told him to look for a breeder in our area. I busted out laughing cause the one thing that really got him to change his mind was I told him it would probably also be a lot cheaper.

sorry for long post!!!!
sue

Good for you for educating someone else about the horrors of buying a petshop puppy (usually)

I would also suggest that you not shop there again as well. I buy from Petsmart and online excusively. But that's me. I know how you feel. There was a pet shop at Pismo Beach here in California and I couldn't help myself and ask to hold one of the puppies. They told me that unless I intended to buy it, that I couldn't hold it. Funny, huh? So being the meany that I am, I asked where the dog came from, if they support puppy mills, all kinds of things. I know I made the employee uncomfortable but I couldn't help myself. I too spoke to a few other customers and recommended they search for "puppy mill" on the internet before buying from a pet store. I'm not sure if I made a difference, but I tried :)

we have small pet store in our little tow, and i know some of puppies are from locals, but god knows where the other puppies came from though their puppy crates are about 5'X5' and ive seen pet stores store the same amount of puppies in lil crates.. sad.
i have noticed alot of crowding of their vermin types tho, but it looked like the vermin liked it this way, they ignore the bulk of their cage and just squeeze into little areas by the dozens. (mice are weird)

What was so wierd was when I was holding the puppy I noticed that where the poop was stuck she had shaved that area. well iI was looking and it looked like her rectum was sticking out, is that normal? I mean it was really noticable to the point where I thought the pup was pooping. When I asked the girl about she said the rectum was a bit swollen because she really scrubbed her clean cause the poop was sticking to all the fur by that area. How screwed up is that :( . That cant be normal can it cause I take my shepherd in once a month for a grooming and his is never like that. Thats when I really wanted to take the pup and run but i knew I couldnt. I guess I felt like this poor puppy was begging me to take her cause she kept giving me these lil puppy kisses :animal-sm . I will never step foot in a pet shop like that again because I get so depressed seeing all those puppies in those disgusting cages. sorry for the long post again it's just it really bothered me.

sue

:( i know the feeling of seeing these little things in cages and not being able to rescue them.... 2 years ago we were in Spain for a holiday and we walked past a pet store, there was this tiny little yorkiepup in the window, it was hard to walk past this and the only reason i didnt walk in to buy it is coz we still had our older yorkie, she was already deteriorating at that time so i didnt want to confront her with a pup of a few weeks old, if that wasnt the case i wouldnt have been able to refuse the puppy... its heartbreaking to see it :(

that swolen rectum thing would be normal if scrubed hard to clean, the scrubbing that hard to clean it is the abnormal part. she could have been more patient with the cleaning process, a lill warm water and 5 minutes would have done the trick.

Hey Sue - which pet store were you at? Did it happen to be a certain one in Scottsdale Center or a certain one on Archer? Just curious.

I went a Petland in one of the south 'burbs of Chicago and they had a female yorkie (they only carry females) for $1600. I had absolutely no intention of buying from them -- just wanted to see what a puppy mill puppy looked like. I was suprised, but she was gorgeous -- beautiful coat, but she looked very unhealthy. They kept telling me she came from a "private" breeder. It really *pissed* me off.

Also, my boyfriend's brotehr bought a maltese with papers from a pet store in the chicago burbs and she is DEFINITELY at LEAST half Bischon. So, that just goes to show what AKC papers mean.