why shouldnt you buy a dog online?

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Mystery

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its a scam my friend bought a puppy turns out it was sooo sick and she lost $500
 
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When you buy a dog you need to see at least one of the parents, preferably both. You need to see where the dogs have been reared, is it clean, in the house or kennels. You need to meet the people who have bred the dog and find out as much as you can about them and their dogs. You can't do any of these things online and you could be getting royaly ripped off.
 
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Freedom

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You need to investigate the breeder. Many who have websites and show dogs are on the up and up but there are far more who are puppy mills and back yard breeders with out a clue. You need to talk with breeders extensivley and make sure you are getting a healthy puppy with breeder support. There are litterally thousands of puppy ads online daily and the majority of these are scumbags who do not know much about breeding or their breed. If you don't know where your puppy is raised and by whom, you may end up with a dog that cost you thousands in medical bills.
Puppy mills have a nice way of making their pups look like they are in clean environments and on blankets surrounded by people, love and toys when in reality, they are born and living here:
http://www.atourhands.com/pupmills.html
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/kgaeding/puppy/picsmills.html
http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Fair/1901/puppymills.html
 
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magy

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You can't meet the parents, so you have no idea if they're healthy or what their temperments are like. You can't see the puppy before you buy it, so really, you are spending a LOT of $ for a pup based on a strangers word it's 'good'. Could be sickly, could be genetically inferior, could be from a puppy mill.
 
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Lock 'n Load

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Because dog's aren't shoes or chairs that you can order and expect within 3-5 working days. You could pay £1000 and be sent a sickly ill puppy, or non at all. Always see the puppy and mother in person before you agree to anything.
If I were to breed dogs (which I don't) I must certainly wouldn't pack them up and ship them off to a stranger.

However, there ARE good kennels that ship (I think leerburg do?) you just need to be VERY carefull. It's realy risky and theres no getting your money back.
 
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Patti

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Hi. Professional Breeders sell their puppies online and you must go through a backround check in order to be able to purchase a puppy from a responsible breeder. Breeders do NOT sell to anyone with money. Mine does backround checks and our puppies have ALL been healthy, beautiful and perfect in every way. They have all had DNA testing on the Sires and Dames for eye disorders, hip disorders and any blood disorders. Papers come WITH the pup...not an afterthought.
Petfinders.com is also a great web site trying to place the puppy with the perfect family. Again....the customer is checked out!
I'm not sure what sites you refer to...or if you mean in the newspapers or in puppy stores. However NO GREAT BREEDER will place their puppies for sale in a newspaper or ever in a store.
Hope this helps. Blessings, Patti
PS: As owners, it is our responsiblity to check the web sites out with the Better Business Burea as well and any state agencies.
 
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Nandina

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You should see the dog before you bring it home. You're not buying a pair of shoes, you're adopting a living animal with its own personality - you need to know if you LIKE that personality before you adopt.

You should be able to meet the parents (or at least the mother) and see the environment in which the pups were raised - you can't do that on the internet.

Also, it's not unknown for website sellers to send pictures of "other" dogs and then not send the one that you thought you were buying.

Plus, shipping young puppies like so much warehoused cargo is stressful to them and unnecessary when you can find dogs anywhere in the nation.
 
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Frankie

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Oh bad idea. A good breeder will not sell their dog to a person they have not met. It proves that their motivation for breeding is to make money. Take a doberman for example. They put pictures they got from books or the internet onto their website. They say the dogs are from all European bloodlines, etc. But they send you a pup thats a low quality puppy mill dog. Or no pup at all! You havn't met the dogs parents or seen their papers or assesed the pup for injury or health problems. There may be genuine breeders with relativly good dogs, but you must ask, why are they selling online? Probably to make money. They are also probably getting rid of the low quality pups.

Use your common sense on this one. There are many many great dogs waiting for you in shelters.

Good luck
 
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torbaynewfs

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Sometimes it is. Sometimes they post a photo of a dog, you think you are buying that dog, and get something totally different.

It is just common sense....if you are buying a living creature, you SEE where it came from and who bred it. If the place is a hell hole that smell like death and poop, why would you get a puppy from there????? Websites are great at covering up the things they do not want you to see.

And many of them give you a 48 hour health guarantee......most viruses can incubate for 10-14 days...so what good is it to have a 48 hour guarantee??? And I have seen some say thatthey do not vaccinate the puppies because they are too small, the vet said they were too young, it is too stressfull...whatever. It is all so they don't have to spend any more money than they have to on the pup before it goes!!!!!
 
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tom l

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All depends;
Quality kennels also have web sites.
It is "buyer beware" tho', so you would want to evaluate what is on their web site very carefully. I do know of one web site in England that "borrowed" every single picture on their site.
 
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yellow_duckie_dude

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Well, people could just be trying to steal your money, but also, you dont know how healthy that dog is, or what it acts like. You need to meet the dog before you buy it.
 
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dragonfly_3

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It's relatively easy to design a good looking website and create an image of a place where animals are well cared for and great animals, but the reality might be a horrible puppy mill where the dogs are mistreated and undernourished and have all kinds of parasites, etc. You don't want to support that kind of treatment of animals, do you?
 
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