Posted by Lynn on December 06, 2002 at 20:49:25:
In Reply to: Re: need adviceon outsidekennel pest control, mosquitoes mainly posted by Combssssreptiles on December 06, 2002 at 19:23:37:
Giving this guy your hard earned money is not going to make him change. You giving him "competition" in business will not make him change. If anything, if your dogs turn out well, he will use that as another selling point. This guy from all your accounts, his website and other digging about is nothing but a backwoods puppy mill. I see people like this on a daily basis and such "men" if so they can be called should not be allowed to own a houseplant let alone a live animal, but I don't make the laws, I just see to it that the few that are on the books in FL are followed. Basically all you have to do in FL is toss something resembling food, have a bucket that has some liquid in it and either a dog house or the dog being able to crawl under a mobile home also counts as shelter. The only way this guy will ever shape up is for his customers to insist that he adopt ethical standards BEFORE they buy his pups or to stop buying from him at all. Chances are one in a thousand that he will become "enlightened". You can talk all you want to people like this. I do it all day long, staying positive, informative, answering their questions without adding stuff that they weren't asking about, etc. etc. In the vast majority of people, once they realize that actual work is involved, it's in one ear and out the other. If the issue is shaping up the breeder, hate to break it to you, but he's already shown you his willingness to change when you offered to take the pup that he killed. That says more than enough right there. If he had one iota of a clue about what he was doing, then he would realize that size at birth has very little impact on the dog if handled properly. Though it's not a bully breed obviously, to take one of my greyhounds as an example, he was the smallest in his litter... as to whether he was the runt or not, that's not recorded in his information, and he was almost 7 when he came to me. Anyway, he was the only one of his litter to race in Grade A (top grade) and he did so at a major track.
If you want some Olde English Bulldogges, great. Enjoy them. If you truly want to make this guy shape up as you say you do, start examining him and get in touch with the USDA (his website says he's liscensed, judging by the chains the dogs are on, I doubt it, USDA regs prohibit chaining a dog), APHIS, a branch of the USDA that oversees kennels, the Missouri Dept of Ag, the IRS, and the Florida Dept of Ag. I would dearly love to see all people like this shut down tomorrow, but my hands are full. One can't walk 100 yards here without seeing some skinny half bald excuse for a dog crawl out from under a trailer. Good luck.
Lynn
