Comments on: How to buy a European Havanese Dog? http://havanesepuppiesblog.com/blog/2009/12/21/how-to-buy-a-european-havanese-dog/ Havanese Blog Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:57:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: cheap dog houses http://havanesepuppiesblog.com/blog/2009/12/21/how-to-buy-a-european-havanese-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-2843 cheap dog houses Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:57:47 +0000 http://havanesepuppiesblog.com/?p=1038#comment-2843 Hi, I just thought I would post and inform you that your web site layout is really screwed up on the Firefox browser. Seems to work ok on IE however. Anyways keep up the great work. Hi, I just thought I would post and inform you that your web site layout is really screwed up on the Firefox browser. Seems to work ok on IE however. Anyways keep up the great work.

]]> By: Linda Luikens http://havanesepuppiesblog.com/blog/2009/12/21/how-to-buy-a-european-havanese-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-2640 Linda Luikens Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:21:03 +0000 http://havanesepuppiesblog.com/?p=1038#comment-2640 I own European dogs from a reputable breeder in the Netherlands. Not everyone is as lucky as I am. I have heard horror stories about dogs coming from behind the iron curtain countries of Europe. Mostly no health testing was done on the sires and dams and bad record keeping in their Stud Books. Some of these dogs are not even pure Havanese. People in the poorer countries of Europe are like our poor people in America. They raise and sell puppies for the money. It is a commodity to them and they are poor and hungry and their sires and dams are breeding machines making money for them. They often send whole litters to America and expect rich Americans to purchase them because we have a big heart and will help out regardless of quality of the dog. You can get a lot of puppies in one crate and ship them for 11 hours on the plane. If one dies no big deal, they have lots more where that came from. This is the same as purchasing a puppy from one of our Puppy Mills so beware. They can phoney up health certificates and pedigrees and other documents easy enough too because you don\'t know the difference. The Minimum health testing on the sires and dams for the Havanese breed in Europe is Eyes Cerf\'d for Cataracts & PRA and Patellas checked for knee cap slippage. In America we do more health tests. A good European Breeder will have the logo of their Country\'s Havanese Club on their website and will be a member in good standing following their Club\'s breeding rules and guidelines. Also you don\'t need an agent to purchase a European dog. Agents are puppy brokers and bad news. They perpetuate the puppy mills in Europe. It\'s TRUE so beware. You will get what you pay for and then keep paying your veterinarian later on. I own European dogs from a reputable breeder in the Netherlands. Not everyone is as lucky as I am. I have heard horror stories about dogs coming from behind the iron curtain countries of Europe. Mostly no health testing was done on the sires and dams and bad record keeping in their Stud Books. Some of these dogs are not even pure Havanese. People in the poorer countries of Europe are like our poor people in America. They raise and sell puppies for the money. It is a commodity to them and they are poor and hungry and their sires and dams are breeding machines making money for them. They often send whole litters to America and expect rich Americans to purchase them because we have a big heart and will help out regardless of quality of the dog. You can get a lot of puppies in one crate and ship them for 11 hours on the plane. If one dies no big deal, they have lots more where that came from. This is the same as purchasing a puppy from one of our Puppy Mills so beware. They can phoney up health certificates and pedigrees and other documents easy enough too because you don’t know the difference. The Minimum health testing on the sires and dams for the Havanese breed in Europe is Eyes Cerf’d for Cataracts & PRA and Patellas checked for knee cap slippage. In America we do more health tests. A good European Breeder will have the logo of their Country’s Havanese Club on their website and will be a member in good standing following their Club’s breeding rules and guidelines. Also you don’t need an agent to purchase a European dog. Agents are puppy brokers and bad news. They perpetuate the puppy mills in Europe. It’s TRUE so beware. You will get what you pay for and then keep paying your veterinarian later on.

]]> By: Heather Bain http://havanesepuppiesblog.com/blog/2009/12/21/how-to-buy-a-european-havanese-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-2637 Heather Bain Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:47:25 +0000 http://havanesepuppiesblog.com/?p=1038#comment-2637 Hi- Thanks for including all this information n the Havanese breed, and especially the information on what to look for to identify substandard breeders and those that breed true to the line, which gives good guidance when you're trying to locate a quality breeder for any type of dog. Thank you so much for sharing this valuable information, and I look forward to reading more of your posts in the future! Heather Bain Hi-
Thanks for including all this information n the Havanese breed, and especially the information on what to look for to identify substandard breeders and those that breed true to the line, which gives good guidance when you’re trying to locate a quality breeder for any type of dog. Thank you so much for sharing this valuable information, and I look forward to reading more of your posts in the future!

Heather Bain

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