Re: [pyrnet] pet store pups

["Robyn Allwright" <ziffanyrobyn@earthlink.net>]

> I had a special needs 4 year old male that needed to be placed last week -
> and I had a family in mind that had sent in an application for a rescued
> male.  I called them to tell them about JT, the rescue, and they informed
me
> that for Christmas they had gone out and gotten a puppy instead.  They
could
> not tell me a thing about the people that bred the dog - except that it
was
> a family who owned a farm and a couple of Pyrs - they had some of them
caged
> in the barn.  That was also where the puppies were.  The puppies went for
> $200 a piece.
> 
Jen, I don't know where your located, but here in the South Carolina
region, this is VERY common -- and very disheartening.  We get the South
Carolina Market Bulletin, and many of the farm breeders advertise there. 
I'm starting a list of all the people who advertise there, when they run
their ads, and some of the specifics (cost, number of pups, etc).  I should
have started this some time ago, just never got around to it.  Will be
interesting to see the pattern.  Around here, it's these people who are
doing the Pyrs the worse injustice, and are the hardest (if not
impossible!) to educate.

--- Robyn Allwright
--- ziffanyrobyn@earthlink.net
--- Ziffany Great Pyrenees