Love our new baby and our fantastic breeder!!!

I really do not understand what you mean? "type of breeder that this forum recommends" ??? So someone / anyone who has had a good experience and has a beautiful pure maltese cannot recommend "their breeder" if you all do not agree with that? Hmm...I simply do not understand .... I have always had Maltese for my choice of pet and this particular Maltese is the most perfect one. I have read this board and have looked at lots of pics and I can see (dont mean this to be mean) but I can see in a LOT of pics that the maltese that some have, while they are all beautiful, they are not pure maltese I can see it in their body shapes and features. They are still beautiful though but they are not pure maltese. So the breeders of those I hope were not recommended too highly. Anyhow I just wanted to share my pleasure and joy at finding THE PERFECT maltese and a breeder who really knows what they are doing!!!

Well, you have just joined Spoiled Maltese, and your puppy's picture is cute. But most of the posts over the course of SM's history recommend that the best way to make sure you get a puppy who will be as beautiful, sound, healthy and have a good temperament as possible is to buy from a breeder who shows their dogs, has Champions as parents of their puppies, is a member of the American Maltese Association and abides by the AMA ethical standards.

Yes, people have joined SM after they have gotten a dog that may not be purebred. If they are rescued dogs, we likely will be more generous, and we don't want to beat up on someone who has fallen in love with their dog. We want them to take care of the dogs that they have. But sometimes we call out people for buying from a backyard breeder, puppymill, or pet shop, because we want to support the betterment of the Maltese breed.

It's ironic, but there are so many mixes out there that the people that found and advertised my latest rescue advertised her as a "multipoo" or mixed breed. I was afraid that may have prevented her owners from reclaiming her from the public shelter. She was a sweet and pretty little thing, but we soon found she was full of cancer. I have her ashes in a pretty box in case a loving owner figures out where she went and wants some assurance she was cared for.

I am dreaming of having a beautiful little Maltese again someday, but if I buy, rather than rescue, I'll go through the kind of breeder that meets the standards of the AMA and comes from a show breeder with Champion parentage.