Petland Has anyone heard of this store? This is where my bf is going to get my puppy. He was told that they get all of their dogs from breeders. So we go there yesterday and they had a ton of pups, including 3 yorkies, a couple jack russels, 3 s**tzu's, minipinchers, a boxer, a lot of poodle mixes, etc. The girl who worked there informed me that they do get there pups from breeders, they are a third party. Heres the reason I don't believe it: they get the smaller dogs in on a weekley basis, and the larger dogs like every 1.5 weeks. Doesnt that seem a little quick to be getting dogs in? I honestly dont think that there are that many breeders in the area to be supplying dogs every week, and if they are from breeders, they could be breeding the bitches nonstop. Next time I go there I'm going to ask for the breeders information and get in contact with them. An another note, I played with this s**tzu and fell in love with it!!! I was so close to buying it, but I would have to finance it and since Im closing on a house soon, I cant do anything to my credit :( I also played with a yorkie there, but if it was out of those 2 specific dogs I wouldve gotten the s**tzu. Now I'm torn between what kind of dog I wanna get. :confused: |
yes, I've heard of Petland. They do not get their dogs from respectable breeders. Don't get your puppy there. Not only are you going to overpay, but you are going to likely get a very sick dog and you will most definitely be supporting puppymills. If you live in Chicago, I can help you find a decent breeder to get your puppy from. |
Thanks! We want our puppy around beginning of August, a couple weeks sooner or after is fine too. Do you know of any yorkie or s**tzu breeders in this area? Im in the northern burbs, willing to drive but not drive too far. |
Yep we got our Cocker from one of their stores 8 years ago. So far she has been healthy but def got left out in the brains dept.:mad: Of course knowing what I know now I wouldn't do it again. The first 2 dogs we had came from the pound. They were older dogs so we didn't have them too long. Later we went to the petstore and my hubby just had to have the cocker. She came with papers but I can't remember which registry. She also came from Arizona. So that was a LONG trip from Arizona to Virginia.So I can bet they don't come from local breeders. You should ask to see the info about the breeder. Let me guess they want at LEAST 1400-1500 for a Yorkie and about 900 -1000 for a Shih tzu. You could find a local breeder and get a Shih tzu much cheaper and prob a lot healthier as well. Good Luck. Just be careful. Michelle |
PLEASE BOYCOTT ALL PETLANDS ! Please tell your friends and have THEM tell their friends - PETLAND ONLY BUYS PUPPIES from Puppy Mills and are one of the BIGGEST Buyers if not THE largest. They buy cheap and jack up the price up to 7 x or more of the original price they paid.....they probably make 1000% profit on some dogs they sell. :mad: :mad: :mad: IF no one bought ANY animals from that AWFUL STORE then that would severely put a hurt in the EVIL Millers pockets. That was nice of you Kristy - Man - Petland needs to be banned from selling puppies...I wish the laws would change |
OH no don't get one from there. Petland is the big pet store chain here. Most of the people I know who have gotten pets from them the pets died or had serious healthy issues. A lot of there puppies don't even make it to 1 year old. Here they dont' have much competion so they aren't shy about telling you they ship the puppies in form who knows where. They asked me once what kind of bird I wanted and said they had sooo many places to get them they could have me whatever I wanted on the truck the next week. it's a sad sad place. |
Here's a place to start... Yorkies: http://breeders.net/find.php?breed_i...0031&country=2 Shih Tzus: http://breeders.net/find.php?breed_i...0031&country=2 This woman is from the Shih Tzu Club of America. She gives referrals to breeders if you call her: Bonnie La Barbera (IL) Ph: 847-895-9398 Looks like she is in your area. Here is the site where I got her number: http://www.shihtzu.org/ASTC/referral.asp?menu=ASTC |
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The s**tzuh was $1100, the yorkie was on sale for $1300, marked down from $1900. The yorki has been there for 34 days she said, and I dont think they gave it a bath at all. It smelled, hair was greesy, just not clean. It was also nipping at my ankles. But the s**tzuh...I wanted it sooo bad! Everywhere I look in this area, yorkies are around 1500, so yeah petland was a little more but nothing too much more. |
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Petland has a very bad reputation. Please go t a breeder. I would be happy to go with you to look at puppies since we both live in Gurnee. |
I got my first dog from petland and it cost me lots of money. I loved that dog, but it was sick, it cost $1000 (If I had just looked in the newspaper first I would have discovered that I could have gotten a min pin for half the cost of what I paid for it a petland). The min pin was also 25 lbs when fulll grown and that breed should not get bigger than 6-10 lbs. I love that dog and if it wasnt for its personality I would still have it(he was a very dominating dog and fought hard with my other dogs so I had to find him a better home). But anyways you should really check out breeders before ever going to a petstore. I didnt know that when I got my first dog but now I would NEVER get a dog from a petstore. Pet stores will lie to you, over charge and they often do not take very good care of thier dogs or they do not get them from reputable breeders. |
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I'm not sure about the east coast, but here, the millers drive the puppies straight up from Missouri to the Chicago area in semi trucks and drop them off all over at pet stores. So there is not a broker/middle man. |
wow this really sucks since i got lola from Petland! but she seems healthy and i woulndt assume that ALL the pups from Petland are bad, but we did pay alot! |
Last year my sister bought a chihauhau from there. I told her not to do it but she did it anyway because it was cute and she was able to finance it through the store. The selling price was triple what they went for in the paper but she didn't have a lump sum to make the purchase from the paper.Needless to say it did not turn out well. She brought the pup over to my home and it was so small, probably less than 2lbs., and it just slept. We thought it was because it was a pup.She took it to a vet and it was placed on iv's and then died. The vet said it was advanced parvo. She only had the pup about two or three weeks. She went back to the store and told the manager what had happened and he pretty much said tuff and your still responsible for the bill and offered no compensation. She said I'll see you in court and she did, and she didn't have to say a word. The judge saw her paperwork and reamed the guy out and she didn't have to pay. That store is no longer in business. It's to bad that pup had to suffer like that. |
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