I've spoken to you, communicated with you and pleaded with you to stop, but you are firmly entrenched in a highly profitable side hustle and have no intention of stopping.
Your puppies have serious issues, yet you just don't care.
The words that fall from your mouth and the emails to prospective buyers are perfectly written....full of heart tugging photos of adorable puppies just waiting for a new home.
For some people that is all they need to sign on the dotted line.....perfect for you as there won't be any "pesky questions" asked.
They trust you because you have been doing this for a while and just look at all of the other photos of happy puppies....adorable.
To be perfectly clear there are excellent breeders out there....brilliant, thoughtful and highly experienced that go above and beyond.
They care deeply about the breed, the lineage and the puppy that you are going home with.
They are everything you are not.
This is purely aimed at the others.
Before it is even confirmed by a client, I know where these dogs have been bred.
I can see by their gait they have the exact same issues that the previous 5 litters have...but wait, that can't be true because you keep saying it was an accidental litter,
a "one off" and you have told each and every person (from every litter) your dog will be spayed.
Your Dam is your money maker, the spay will never happen.
She is aging poorly and has the exact same gait issues that the puppies now have, she can barely walk because her knee caps painfully pop out of place with the steps she takes.
When people come to visit the new pups, they are so happy to see a mother that is calm and quiet....because she is lying down resting in her bed.
She is resting and lying down because she is in pain, moving hurts and she is exhausted.
Luckily for you it is almost impossible to see knee/hip issues in puppies....but those puppies grow up and develop behavioural issues, mainly because of the pain they are in but also because of the unstable temperament the sire has.....but he is well hidden when the puppies are picked up.
He has to be hidden because he has some very serious issues that we have discussed and some of the puppies have the exact same issues and behaviour....but that must be the new owners fault, right ?
You say I should be "happy" because they are contacting me and will be a new client.
I would be far happier if you stopped.
Different breeder, different issues.
Sending two puppies home together, something no respectable breeder would do without some very serious discussions and much thought.
"They just can't be separated, they have such a bond that can't be broken".....it will likely be broken and can result in two dogs never being allowed in the same room together... as one dog wants to tear the other apart and has done just that on several occasions.
Maybe it won't get as bad as that though....maybe one puppy will develop into a confident dog while the other pup struggles with anxiety and fear, especially around their sibling.
But hey....at least they are together.
Some of "those" breeders have caused far more issues than they realised but some KNOW what they have done and continue to do so.
The "breeder" that insisted on feeding in lines of food on the floor and did nothing to stop the resource guarding those very young puppies are now displaying.
Sending puppies home with food that they insist is a certain and very expensive brand. The new owners are given a small snap lock bag with a scoop or two of "the best". Yet, it looks nothing like the bag you told them to purchase and now the puppy has explosive diarrhea because they followed your instructions....I know the food you supplied was the very worst and cheapest available and you passed it off as something that puppy has never ever eaten.
Puppies rehomed at 8 weeks when they are barely 5 or 6 weeks (far more common than many realise).
Falsifying a puppy booklet with vaccinations and worming schedules.
Not vaccinating at all because they have been "holistically" vaccinated.
Insisting that the puppy will be small, KNOWING a woman has had a broken hip and they specifically asked for a small dog and that tiny pup grew to be as high as that shattered and rebuilt hip. Every other puppy, plus the Sire and Dam are hip height or above....HOW could you possibly promise a small puppy ?
The farm puppies from working lines that have insisted that their puppies have been "socialised" yet these pups are terrified on any other surface other than grass.
The "health testing" done which is just some convoluted words typed on an A4 sized piece of paper that you are passing off as a "hip score".
Shoving a puppies nose in urine and faeces because that will "teach" a 6 week old puppy (that you insist is 8) not to have accidents. They trust you know better so now they continue with what you insisted was the "correct" way to toilet train puppies. They now sneak off to urinate and defecate in the house....they are too scared to show signs they are about to go.
The animal "saviour and educator" whose puppies grow up to have some of the most serious hip dysplasia issues I have seen.
The Sire who is fathering scores of puppies that has serious behavioural issues and those puppies sired are now displaying exactly the same....because you don't seem to care (or know) that aggression and/or reactivity can be genetic. Then you keep a daughter because you read somewhere on Facebook that you can mate them now too. More money for you....but you insist that's not why you are doing this.
The sneaky "hidden" litters from registered breeders that profit from that very associations reputation. The association you belong to which aims to stop the very issues this post mentions...yet you have found a very profitable way around the system.
The scariest thing is, this is a small city.
If this is happening here time and time again....I can only imagine the scale of the issue out there.
Stop.
Please.
The rescues are overflowing with your "product"...that is how you view them. I am sure you loved them but greed or need started to creep in.
Maybe you dipped your toes into this because you made $ 8000 or more selling your mixed breed "oopsie litter" (nothing wrong with mixed breeds but the prices people are wanting for these can surpass health tested, registered breeders which in itself is so very, very wrong).
The problem now though, stopping WILL hurt you financially.
You are depending on that extra $ 30,000 a year (or much much more).
It is a very vicious cycle you now find yourself in.
So I ask you all again.... Please ....seriously reconsider what you are doing.
Let your Dam rest, spay her.....get your Sire the help he needs and stop the genetic "lucky dips" you are creating and selling for thousands.
It ends up costing everyone far, far more than you will ever make.
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