brotymo
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I never wrote about it here, but I tried to find a way to get Pixie's mom from the puppy miller who had her. (Pixie was my cavalier who died last June in a delayed drowining accident for those unfamiliar with the story)The man has something like 300 dogs. I got up the courage to call him in December when I saw cavaliers disappear from his website. He informed me that he had sold all his cavaliers to one lady down near Atlanta due to them not producing for him. He claimed that this lady was having success with them because she "coddled" them, and he felt like they just didn't do well down in the kennels. He did give me her number. I waited a couple of days and called her. I didn't want to sound like I was after her "breeding stock", and I think she had the impression that I wanted to buy a puppy from Pixie's mom, who at the time didn't have pups. I thought I'd just keep my true desire to myself and try to go down and visit her, see how the pups lived and then try to buy her face to face. While I didn't ever get down there and see in person, from what the woman told me on the phone and from looking at her website, the dogs were in a much better (though still not ideal) situation. They got to sleep inside, had a whole yard and were the only dogs she had. This lady had a website and I'd look at it from time to time trying to work out how to best approach what I was wanting to do. Imagine my surprise when I pulled up her website on Friday and I see that all her cavaliers are for sale...here was the ad:
I am sad, I guess I always had hoped to save Pixie's mom. I'll never forget her sad little face when we walked away from the kennel with Pixie, her only puppy. She tried to follow us out, but the kennel owner shoved her back with his foot and slammed the gate in her face.
I should have done something sooner. I was just afraid I'd have one shot and didn't want to blow it.
I am moving and must sell all of my cavaliers you must take all for one price.I have two blenheim females and one tri female and one black and tan male.This is the adults.now the tri female has four pups that come with her four weeks old. a blenheim female is in heat now and she had five pups last time the other blenheim female had four pups. I also have one blenheim female pup four months old. I also have one tri male four months old. They are all ckc.registered.
So I called her, but found out that she'd sold them all the day the ad came out. Now Pixie's mom is gone and all the dogs are in god-knows what type of situation. The lady said she felt good about who bought them, but from what she said, it obviously wasn't a rescue. She said that the woman had been trying to "get into cavaliers" for 2 years, but noone would sell her a puppy.
I am sad, I guess I always had hoped to save Pixie's mom. I'll never forget her sad little face when we walked away from the kennel with Pixie, her only puppy. She tried to follow us out, but the kennel owner shoved her back with his foot and slammed the gate in her face.
I should have done something sooner. I was just afraid I'd have one shot and didn't want to blow it.
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