That is one thing I am frustrated about forums. People come to forums only if they want informations or if they need help. When there is no problems, you don't hear from them. What they don't understand is that if nobody posts, the forum is going to be inactive and after a while close down and not be there the day they need it. So in order for a forum to survive, it needs thousand of people, but the majority of the people posting are having problems and this gives the impression that something is wrong with the breed. It does not help with the bashing of BYB, even with the good intention of educating people, all it does is scaring people. All they get out of this is that there is no such thing as a healthy Maltese, especially not if they cannot fork out between a 1,000 and 3,000 $. I can see it again and again, you start all out with good intentions and then get carried away. And you forget that even dogs coming from show breeders have LUXATING PATELLAS, one of the common things mentioned for not going with a BYB. Some illnesses come up only later in the life of the dog. Have you forgotten that a 7 years old dog is an old dog ? He is a senior like you will be after your sixties ! And that's when the **** will hit the fan ! people or dogs ! It's not nice getting older. It's certainly not getting better. Sorry but I had to vent.