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Anonymous
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If it comes from Pet Land, it comes from a puppy mill. No responsible breeder would sell through a third party.
Your paperwork doesn't mean anything. Kennel club paperwork just says who the parents were, not their temperament, health, or overall quality. A "genetic screening" might mean he doesn't carry hip dysplasia, but can't screen for quality or behavior problems that inherited or acquired along the way. Paperwork is no substitute for meeting the owner/breeder face to face and seeing the parent or parents (the majority of responsible breeders will look for a stud that compliments their bitch, so they my only have the mother but can often show you photos and explain why they chose a certain stud) for yourself.
Even if your dog manages to be relatively healthy, which isn't unheard of, you just paid $1600 to further the pain of its parents. Even supposedly clean "commercial kennels" that meet USDA standards, by their very nature, neglect the animals long term health and mental well being. To ensure the most profit, a female will be bred every hit until she can no longer physically produce puppies or she otherwise becomes a health liability (mammary tumors, prolapses, hernias, etc.). At that point she is typically either sold through auction, abandoned, or euthanized. Most males experience similar fates, though their window of viability is slightly larger. They pace or spin, wearing their pads to blood on wire cage floors, or "finger paint" by smearing their own feces around their cages. Most simply seem to give up, and their are few things more painful then the look of an animal who has no interest in living or even getting up.
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