Here is the site, but be warned-if you have epilepsy or are prone to seizures this site is not for you. This site has so much blinking, flashing, dancing, sparkling nausating animations it would make the gaudiest Xmas tree blush. Maybe it is on purpose, your head will be aching and your visual cortex stunned so that you won't notice all the horrid things going on. (and is this dog living in a gerbil cage?)
This site was passed on by a reader. At first I started reading and was thinking-this isn't so bad. (other than the site's garishness)
"We work hard to improve QUALITY, and strive for the standard set forth by AKC. My poms are AKC registered, and micro chipped with AVID chips, the males are DNA certified by AKC as required. I carefully plan and select each breeding for improvement of quality, soundness of body with Health and Temperament being the top priority. I breed mostly for PET, while aiming for the "show" quality, with health and temperament and soundness of body being my top priority, as I want each baby to get a lifetime of love, but also strive to improve quality so those who are outstanding can also be in the show ring besides being a loving pet. I do my best to ensure all pups are healthy, sound in body, have a good temperament, are well socialized as well as having the best quality of conformation I can. I do not breed any dog with a known defect and have been blessed to avoid most of the common issues in poms like black skin disease,
collapsing trachea, etc....I am hoping to start showing some of our fur kids in the AKC ring soon as well as thru the IABCA shows. I evaluate every pup we keep or buy for improving my lines before breeding it. Not all pups hold their potential when grown. We strive to improve with each breeding. Each breeding is carefully planned out long before they come of age, and re-evaluated based on each dogs characteristics or flaws before breeding, pedigree's are studied continually to make the best matches possible always keeping an eye out for improving. I am always happy to talk and answer questions on my babies anytime and assist others any way I can. I pride myself on my integrity and honesty regarding my babies and breeding program."
Doesn't sound bad does it? Then I kept going. Her contract does not guarantee the pup for health or temperment as soon as the new owners take it off the property. No where in the contract does it say that the dog must go back to her if the owner can't keep it. But if you dig hard enough there is another 'contract'
LIFE THREATENING GENETIC DEFECT’S ARE GUARANTEED FOR 1 YR FROM DATE OF PURCHASE AND LIMITED TO A REPLACEMENT PUPPY OF EQUAL VALUE & SAME GENDER, AFTER DEFECTIVE PUP AND ALL OTHER PAPERS ARE RETURNED TO SELLER AND PROVIDED MY VET CONCURS IT IS A LIFE THREATENING GENETIC DEFECT. IF A PUP OF LESSER VALUE IS CHOSEN NO FURTHER COMPENSATION WILL BE OWED OR GIVEN. IF THE BUYER CHOOSES TO KEEP THE DEFECTIVE PUP, WRITTEN PROOF OF THE DEFECT MUST BE PROVIDED BY THE BUYERS VET, AND IF MY VET CONCURS IT IS A LIFE THREATENING GENETIC DEFECT, ONCE THE DEFECTIVE PUP IS SPAYED OR NEUTERED AND PROOF IS PROVIDED, A REPLACEMENT PUP CAN THEN BE CHOSEN AND ½ OF THE PURCHASE PRICE OF THE DEFECTIVE PUP WILL BE APPLIED TO THE REPLACEMENT PUP CHOSEN, AND NO FURTHER COMPENSATION WILL BE OWED OR GIVEN.
She breeds poms in funky colours (once again why is it that John Q Public wil pick their new family members based on a cool colour?) And in tiny size, in case you want to be Ms Hilton and carry your dog as a fashion accessory. I am not a pom person, but they don't look like most poms I meet. It gets better.. you guessed it, she breeds designer dogs. She takes dogs like Rowdy here, who is supposed to be a chi (who cares he looks nothing like a chi, he is a cool colour!) and cross them to something like Fantasy who looks like a bazillion other dogs sitting in a shelter hoping for a home but likely to get the needle. Ugg!
And of course she takes paypal, and many credit cards including VISA, Master Card, The Discover Card and American Express. She seems to be all about getting the money. PEOPLE there are dogs JUST like these ones in your local shelter, who need homes.
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The chihuahua can't be a purebred, he's a blue merle. The merle gene isn't part of the chihuahua standard and was probably introduced by cross breeding. (More info on that here and here.)
There are ALOT of debates as to the merle gene in chihuahuas...so lets not goes off on that tangent...
But that "chi" in particular looks like a cross...
Other that that all i can say is DISGUSTING....
S
Darn it, the first link in the above post is dead. To make up for that, here's another reference.
Apparently The Chihuahua Club of America has petitioned the AKC to make the merle markings a disqualification. It's currently pending approval.
Rowdy looks like a chi/mini dachshund cross, dachshunds come in that dapple/merle color, and his back is longer than most chis I know.
Kerri, check this Craigslist posting out...
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/pet/626496816.html
And the kennel name is Rockaway I believe... google the number, that's how I found it. Puppy mill if I ever saw one, and now she's trying to see these dogs on CL.
Kerri,
have you not seen the certain so-called rescue out in CA run by the Boy Wonder? There's you a good one to check out. After all, the world really needs some breed called a Sasquatch, or a Great Pyrzoi, or a Scottish GreyLukiZoi. Heck, you can ALWAYS choose one of their hundreds of puppies they always have too. Just be sure you have cash in hand, because if you don't feed the food they sell, your dog will be repo'd.
Google Gentle Giants and Gentle Giant News (GGN for the truth). That place highly supports one of the BIGGEST puppy millers in the Sighthound world.
Groaning.........
Thanks for taking the suggestion!!! this site has horrified me for YEARS. The dogs just look totally stricken in the photos, it's clear they are not used to being handled. And the quality is SO POOR. You may not be a pom person but I am, and they look just like, if not LESS like a pom, than many rescue dogs. And she keeps churning them out year after year, I have counted over 100 adults on her pages & probably 100+ puppies produced per year, and none even remotely resembling the breed they're supposed to be.
Yes the blurb you posted does "sound" good at first blush (other than the fact that I personally don't think anybody needs to be breeding FOR pets and "accidentally" getting something show quality - it should be the other way around imo) but she obviously doesn't walk the walk when you peruse the site.
The merle chi shocks ME even, it looks more like a merle "pom" LOL.
Designer dogs are a huge pet peeve of mine (excuse the pun ;) ) Not long ago my sister mentioned that she wanted a "puggle" and I just about threw up. Oh really? How about you go to the shelter where "puggles" and "pitperds" and "cocker...whatevers" are having to be destroyed everyday instead of funding the greed of careless breeders. *rants*
As for the site, that chi (or whatever it is) looks like its had the crap beaten out of it, he is absolutely cowering!! And whats up with his eyes in those shots? Is he already blind? So much for her claim to not breed defects, I guess she conveniently forgot about merle causing blindness/deafness in chis.
I found it hilariously sad that she has a "prisoners of greed, puppymills breed sorrow" or whatever it said, picture on her site, yet apparently she doesn't ever NOT have puppies available and her entire web site is clearly geared to SELL, SELL, SELL! Uhh - hello, just because you're not selling your dogs to a pet store doesn't exempt you from being a puppy mill, lady.
Okay, while this person is clearly a miller and does not really have a clue I will comment on the contract stipulations. Those are quite normal contract requirements from a breeder ... mine are very similar. But I guarantee for the LIFETIME of the dog but only hip and elbow dysplasia - the other problems my breed gets are negligible at best and unlikely (in my line - so are HD and ED but I digress). I don't think this is an unreasonable request by a breeder - we have to protect ourselves also. My dogs are healthy and well adjusted to the best of my ability - and any puppy of mine has a home here anytime in their life.
This woman is clearly an example of someone who has no idea what a puppy mill is and has every excuse in the book to justify what she does. A little knowledge is dangerous.
While I do not have a merle breed I do know that merle can be a dealy color - literally. Someone who clearly has no idea about should not be breeding that color.
Ugh.
I had a situation like that with my own SISTER, and I'm STILL pissed off.
So. I'm an extremely part-time backyard breeder. I bred my beagle bitch a couple of times - she was never shown (due to sustaining a nasty break in her left hind leg as a 12 week old that fully healed with physiotherapy but means she occasionally has a slight limp). She has a fantastic pedigree and decent conformation other than her gait, and was certainly breeding quality. We bred her to a champion stud with compatible blood lines (line bred, but appropriately in a line free of any genetic defects).
She had a litter of 4. My older sister said she wanted one. I knew that she'd had experience as a dog owner, considering that I grew up with her. She and her husband had a child. That's fine. Beagles are great children's pets if treated correctly, given that they tend not to be nippy or fear biters, and love company.
My sister lives on the other side of the country, but I knew her home was securely fenced, and large enough for a beagle since I had visited a number of times. They already had a JRT and wanted him to have a friend.
I gifted them with the one bitch pup in the litter. There was no contract or anything like that. This was my sister after all!
Fast forward a year. No health problems. Beagle pup had some behavioural issues - chewing, and leaping on the kids affectionately. Instead of working through them and training appropriately, my sister gave the pup away. I was PISSED. She spun a huge sob story, 'we just couldn't cope any more. She was jumping all over the baby, we couldn't have her inside, she wouldn't listen.'
For fucks sake, learn how to train.
Now, I'm well aware that Beagles aren't exactly the easiest breed to train, but no dog is impossible to train, and the behavioural issues were all quite simple. I don't think they even bothered taking her to puppy preschool.
Now, my beagle (the mother of the litter) didn't go to puppy preschool, but I socialized her and trained her on my own. She will sit, heel, drop, a command of 'down' will stop her from jumping, a command of 'off' will stop her touching food (if I'm watching, let's face it, she IS a beagle). She will come when called, although rather erratically, so she is always leashed when out and about. Training her was hardly impossible, and training her offspring wouldn't be either.
But no. They were awful. I don't know where the bitch pup is now. My sister swears black and blue that they conducted a site and character check to make sure the pup was going to a good home (apparently a semi-rural property). But it wouldn't surprise me one iota if she just dumped the pup in a shelter.
Sometimes the most reliable character witnesses and site checks just don't work. I'm STILL pissed off at the sister.
Another pup from the same litter (pick of the litter actually!), had to be returned to us because the owners business had expanded. I got a call from the owners in tears when the pup was about 4 months old. As the breeder, I did the ethical thing. We took him back - the owners didn't want a refund, so that was ok. And we decided to keep him. Jackson nominally belongs to my other sister, but in reality, he's a family pet who is taken care of by my parents at their house. He has a great life, plenty of company from his mother and our bullmastiff-mix. Jackson has really wonderful conformation. If he lived with me, I'd have showed him more heavily and gotten him his championship. On his first and only show, he got reserve challenge - and that was when in less-than-optimal condition (not long after we took him back, he was a bit overweight), with only a small amount of training in how to stack.
I'm glad that his owners who we sold him to did the right thing and gave us the opportunity to take him back when things didn't work out with them.
I live in fear that puppies that I have sold have not had the lives their owners promised, that the checks we conducted weren't enough.
Hmm. That's weird. The above comment shouldn't be on this entry! It should be on the one about the JRT...
Apologies.
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