Thoroughly disgusted

Basically ..what the others have said..I think I read originally you were looking in the Philadelphia/NJ area. If you are I will ask a friend for a recommendation. Her mom has a poodle and knows her breeder and they had told me to let them know if I ever wanted a pup, but it is too far for me. There really are a number of puppies out there. When I was looking I found one, she actually had 2 puppies however after re evaluating them she felt they were a bit high strung for what I wanted (I wanted a pup that I could take to nursing homes for therapy) She had a friend who had a litter and recommended them as in fact while she was 4 hours away her friend was delivering a pup to her best friend who lives in the same town as me. Thats how I ended up with my guy, she just brought two extra pups with her for me to choose if I decided I wanted one. (that of course was smart business as who can turn away from a puppy). One of them usually has a puppy or a recommendation. What exactly are you looking for and where and I'm confident we can help find you a puppy.

Mufar I believe you are correct that Mish is in the Northeast since I think I referred her/him to Javelin's breeders. Contact was made and nothing came of it seemingly because there wasn't immediate availability of a puppy. I don't get it about why Mish is having such problems. There are quite a few good standard breeders in the Northeast. As Eclipse pointed out unless someone is actually looking for a unicorn finding a standard just shouldn't be hard.


Tangentially I was talking with a few students at the end of class last night. One of them while a very sweet polite young man is a bit of a spoiled person. He lives not far from me on the "rich side" of town. He is 19 years old and has very nice clothes and two Porsches given to him by his parents. He has no well developed sense of having to earn and wait for things he wants. He wishes for something and it appears. Having patience to wait for things one really wants is an important part of life and for this young man at some point he will learn that lesson (without much pain I hope). I waited over 25 years for my Lily (initially because I had a weird work schedule and no yard and no money, later more because of no yard). But I waited with no regrets because I wanted to have a good set of circumstances to do right by both of us.

Well, I could have had a nice puppy last year but the breeder freaked out because I could not personally go to pick it up. I had been waiting for that puppy all summer.
Then, I found this last breeder and was supposed to get a puppy from a litter last year but there weren’t enough. Ao, I was to be first on this list.
The fact that I could not go in person to visit or pick up the puppy was seemingly not an issue. I had told her what I wanted and kept in contact via email from the day the puppies were born. I thought it was a little strange that I was never told which puppy I was getting. I had specifically told the breeder that I did not want to be in a situation again, where I did not get the best temperament match because others wanted a specific color puppy and that’s exactly what happened. All along, I was under the impression that we were on the same page and a week before pickup, I found out that was not the case. I also believe that people who were able to visit, basically picked their puppies while they were there, even though I was trusting the breeder to pick the best puppy for me, as we discussed my needs and I was supposed to have first pick.
I also live in an area where my former vet, who treated my last 3 dogs and, who told me that nobody cared for their dogs better, also treats the dogs of a few Spoo breeders. I know my vet would give me good references. However, this little clique of breeders will not sell me a dog. I even attended an agility show to meet two of them. I don’t know what the issue is there. They use my former vet and they’re relatively local. I’d been in contact with one earlier this year and was supposedly first on her list too. Then, when i started asking a lot of questions about health in the pedigree, that was the end of it.

I am going to ask a lot of questions. I ask a lot of questions when i buy a car. I’m going to ask even more when I’m looking for a living thing, that is going to be part of my family for a long time. I think a lot of breeders are offended by it. However, in the case of this last one, who never told me she let owners choose by color alone, that was not the issue.