A
FEW WORDS OF ADVICE: Please be careful where you buy your pet. If you
want your Pom to LOOK
like a Pom when it is grown, buy from a breeder who SHOWS.
Please DON'T buy from a Pet Shop,
where you can't see the puppy's parents or meet and talk to the breeder. Are you aware that most Pet
Shop puppies come from large commercial puppy farms in the midwest? Many toy puppies are taken away from their
mothers too young before they are eating well, and die of hypoglycemia while they are being shipped to the pet shops or shortly
after. Don't be fooled by a high price. This is not always an indication of high quality. Do some research before you buy. Go to the American Pomeranian
Club
website and see
what a good quality Pom should look like. www.americanpomeranianclub.org Try to find a breeder referral in your area. Then you may be able to go see the puppies (and their parents)
in person before you buy.
To read
the Pomeranian Standard, click on this link..
Many
websites advertise registered puppies, but what kind of registry do they have? If the puppies are registered with anything other than AKC,
the chances of your pup being bred by an irresponsible breeder rises dramatically. The pet registries
they use do not have the same integrity as AKC, who requires DNA testing of sires, and requires good records to be kept.
MANY PET breeders use poor quality Poms that weigh 10 to 20 pounds or more. These Poms are often
the ones found discarded in the shelters.
Pet
breeders often use registries such as CKC, ACA, APRI, APR, AKA, NAPDR, UABR, WKC, or
another one of the MANY new registries created by the COMMERCIAL PUPPY
BREEDER INDUSTRY. Some of these registries have been in existence less than 10 years. Some brag
that they will register a dog without papers, all you have to do tell them it is purebred. Some give out "papers"
for any combination of mixed breeds. Can you trust a breeder using one of
these kinds of registries to have quality purebred puppies?
If you just want
a small or medium size pet to love, or don't mind if your Pom doesn't look like a show dog, please consider
adopting from a Pom Rescue or a shelter, and save the life of a discarded pet that did not meet someone's expectations.
One sure sign you are NOT dealing with a responsible breeder is if they
do not ask YOU any questions !
Buyers
beware.... it is next to impossible to get your money back from irresponsible, unethical breeders when you realize
you didn't get the pretty little Pom you were expecting.
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