One was searching for a puppy online from a breeder in the UK. She kept getting replies to her inquiries that were generic replies, personalized regarding the breed or puppies she was looking at. After several emails where no specific information on the dogs was returned, just generic emails encouraging her to make a deposit to “hold the perfect puppy”  she googled some key phrases from their info and found out the “breeder” was mentioned in several different documents as a scammer. She emailed the info regarding the scam notices to the “breeder” and the next day the email was no longer in service.
 
A particular breeder here in Kenya had pedigree puppies for sale with Blue or Class One pedigrees, but the actual kennel that the bitch and puppies were being kept in was sadly lacking. Actually the kennels were fairly decent; they had made an attempt to make them nice, they just lacked the expertise. The dogs were also not being fed properly; again they were trying but lacking knowledge. They were interested in what we were trying to tell them. Although the staff can only feed what is being provided by the kennel owner. Two bitches with puppies were being kenneled next door to each other with only wire fencing dividing them. One bitch wanted to kill the others puppies and the other bitch was just stressed to her eyeballs. She was very thin, possibly from the combination of 7 week old nursing puppies and the stress from feeling under threat by the mother next door. Please don’t feel sorry for a puppy that comes from a place like this. Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. If you buy a pup ‘to save it’ you just perpetuate the cruelty (Like in Westlands, if no one bought those puppies, kittens and rabbits, then they would not keep breeding them).  Just leave without a puppy. A good puppy is worth the wait.  Most breeds live from 10 to 15 years, so do your homework, choose carefully and get a healthy  pup of the breeding you want if you decide to buy a puppy instead of adopting or rehoming.    

By Amy L. Rapp