i live in northolt middlsex london is there any breeders who live in this area please would like one of these dogs but cant find any local  thank you for your time

hi i was looking at getting one of these dogs and live in the same area as you there is no breeders in our area i do no a pet shop what sells these pups

Never, never, NEVER buy a puppy from a pet shop.

have much would u pay my shih tzu was £600 with all the tese i wont buy from one

Contact any of the breed clubs listed at the bottom of the Breed Standard and ask for details of reputable breeders with puppies available or expected.

I can confirm that Jeangenie has given you valuable advice.  NEVER buy a puppy from a pet shop.  Only buy from a knowledgable, specialist breeder.  Breed Club secretaries will point you in the right direction.  You may well have to go on a waiting list, but that will be better than buying an ill bred puppy with problems.

i brought a yorkie two weeks ago from pet shopas i just couldnt get a breeder had her checked by vet she is very well no promblems with her

Early days yet tisha.  I hope that you are lucky and I hope that you've got her insured!

yes i do have her insured

Hopefully your puppy will remain healthy, tisha, but you need to be aware that the suppliers to the pet shop will, in the highest probability, be breeding their bitches again and again at every season until they cannot produce anymore at which stage their lives will be ended by a vet if they are lucky.  There will be no thought to the matching of suitable mates, no health checks for the parents and the pups will be rearing in the most miserable of conditions and removed from their mothers way too young so that they can begin their, often week long journeys, to the pet shop in the back of a van picking up other litters on the way, mingling together along with any paperwork that may be have cobbled together, in time to arrive still at the cutest possible stage.  So it is not just an issue about you getting a healthy pup for yourself but the support offered to this horrible trade.

i no the people who own the pet shop it is someone in the family who breed these dogs they have not come from a puupy farm

sorry spelt some words wrong own--owner
                                         puupy--puppy

I repeat: never, never, never buy a puppy from a pet shop. Puppy farmers are all someone's family member.

>i no the people who own the pet shop it is someone in the family who breed these dogs they have not come from >a puupy farm

Yes they WOULD say that...............

Family or not, if they are the sort of people who care so little about where the puppies end up that they see them sold over a counter rather than carefully vetting the purchasers and offering them continuing contact then I would doubt very much that they care a great deal about their breeding stock either.

She may be one of the incredibly lucky few, (althogh it is unlikely!!) but think of her PARENTS -pups in pet shops almost almost come from puppy farms, and because people buy the pups, the poor parents are bred again and again and again and they are kept in horrible conditions.

http://www.dogstrust.org.uk/press_office/pressreleases/2005/exposedpuppyfarminginsouthwales.htm

and also read this, which is about  a puppy farm stud dog (albeit in the US, he belongs to a lady on a mailing list I am on) which highlights that the stud dogs also are kept in awful conditons:

http://www.maryshouse.us/I%20bought%20a%20cute%20puppy%20at%20the%20petstore.htm