[Ayoka]

An interesting local story about a notweiller breeder who I would consider a COE breeder who does all health testing, shows/trains/trials many of her own dogs and is involved in the national breed club.

Said breeder walked into a local petstore which sells "purebred puppies" for ridiculous amounts and they were selling "her" breed so she asked the attendant "where did you get these puppies?"

The attendant went to get the Dogs in Canada Annual, goes to that breed scetion, pulls up HER kennnell name and says "oh they're really well bred by a local lady, here's her information." God love the this breeder, she pulls out her ID and says "that's me and I am here to take my puppies back"....the store called the RCMP to escort her out.

Needless to say, they WEREN'T her puppies BUT were being sold as such and I can only imagine that sometime in the future when these puppies develop health problems she's going to get some phone calls from a few people who were taken for a ride, so to speak.

Anyway, it's interesting that we think of petstores as being unethical because of how & when they get their puppies and how the pups are taken care of. There's more to it especially for local breeders who invest a lot of time and effort into producing quality, healthy dogs with good temperaments.