Originally posted by sweetpea@Apr 19 2004, 04:16 PM
i have a male and female my female was 700.00 i kept dealing with ben i got my male for 500.00 www.koedamkennels.com ben is great will ship cod 136.00 to california great guy to deal with i sent money orders as i could you can find his puppys on www.puppyfind.com also.he seems to always have puppys start at 950.00 but he will deal with you if he feels its going to a good home,just tell him becky sent you,greay guy sweetpeas mom
Something you said about your breeder, "Ben", shocked me. If he will "work with you" if he "thinks the puppy is going to a good home" then it seems to follow that if he doesn't think the puppy is going to a good home he will charge more.............???????????? Thus, Ben's first concern is money, not the puppies and he will sell a puppy even if it is not going to a good home.
Also, shipping a puppy is very risky business. These are still babies, subject to hypoglycemia and the risk of flight delays, errors by the airline, etc. Not to mention purchasing a puppy sight, parents and breeding facility unseen. Ben sounds very much like a puppy mill. At least there are huge red flags here.
To understand why I am posting this, visit
www.hollybellesmaltese.com and check out what a puppymill is and how the parents and offspring are treated. Or should I say, mistreated. It's pretty horrible and purchasing a puppy from a puppymill, whether directly or from a petstore or an online broker does not "save" an animal from a bad fate. Just the opposite, it supports the puppymill financially and encourages more breeding. For every puppy it sells, more are mistreated to produce more for sale. Demand creates supply. Only widespread education of the pet loving public about puppymills will help shut this horrible practice down.
Imagine the mother of your beloved Maltese, being given hormones to make her go into heat quickly after a litter so she can be bred again, and again, and again. Until she's had so many caesareans that her uterus is scarred too badly to be able to produce another litter. Then what? Or her breast are full of tumors, she is toothless and her feet have never touched grass and her head never lain comfortably on the lap of a human who loves her? This is no exageration of the life of a puppymill bitch and the stud doesn't fare any better. Imagine giving a dog Viagra to keep him at stud longer than is natural. Until he starts bleeding.
Please do not feel bad if you think you may have purchased from a puppymill. Get mad and find out the truth. Then spread the word. Since our darling Maltese get so much attention out in public, many people you come in contact with will want one. Educate them! Give them the hollybelles website and malteseonly.com website to read up on how to choose a breeder and recognize a puppymill.
This is the absolutely best thing you could do for your own furbaby.
Thank you for reading.