In a message dated 3/23/2006 12:00:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, PAGAIRS@xxxxxxx writes: the puppies when they are not the soft little fuzzy babies anymore and they havent been sold??? They end up in shelter's or in rescue and maybe they get a new start and a home. That depends on how much damage has been done by these "commercial breeders" and the "professional, caring stores" they sell to. We have a Cocker who started his life at some place like Hunte's. A woman who went to the pet store often as she has fancy fish watched the puppy go from well over a thousand dollars to $150 over a 5 month period of time, all the while growing but being housed in the same small cage. When she saw the pup could not even turn around she bought the pup knowing she could not keep him (severe allergies) and started calling rescue's. She felt if no rescue could be found a shelter and euthanasia would be kinder than the life she had watched in that pet store. Of course we are struggling with teaching him not to poop and lay in it, eat it, roll in it. And that the world is not so scary since he never saw anything but the inside of a cage his entire life. At 7 months it is unknown if he will ever be adoptable. I am sure he wanted to be born in a Commercial Breeding Facility ~ a fancy word that might be better defined under Puppy Mill. (yeah right; but then he has no voice to complain and too many people find this way of breeding and selling appropriate and acceptable) I think Marley would argue that point if he had a voice. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues ============================================================================