but no we did everything properly . pestered everybody in the north west who might know anything about dogs ie the vets, breeders, the rspca woman, dog shelters, dog holiday kennels. you name it we asked them for their insight so it was more a dispute between me and the girlfriend . she was 100 % sure the dog in question was a wiemanarama and the dog called fudge was a choc lab ( wich after months of disagreeing and me finally gettting the proof that she s wrong she now denies ever saying
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so after visiting every breeder in the north west we have finallly got a lovely choc lab called popppy and the breeder was a lovely woman who checked out us before letting her dog go. we got to see the mum the dad copies of all certificates ect and i think we finally picked up poppy after about the 5 th visit !! ( bet she was sick of the sight of us !!
but you are right , on our travels we did see a few quite suspect dealers so it is best to do the background work.
on the same note we were quite shocked when we went to a place called dogs r us were they have about 40 litters of puppy s and basically people just walk in say yes plz one of those, there s the credit card and 30 miins latter own a dog
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no history parents seeing how theyve been raised.
just in case anyones interested the going rate for a pedigree chocolate lab from a good breeder is about £450 where as a vizla is in the region of £800 so when you add this cost to the inital cost of buying everything for the puppy ie toys, bedding, toys, bowls, toys, lead, training books, toys food, treats, toys, vets bills, child pen, training sheets the cost is a swaying factor.