I have been seeing nothing but chis here for sale lately. (sigh!) Since they were in demand for so many years, and you couldn't find any with the rescues the BYBs decided to get in on the action, and now I have 4 local breeders. And they are not all breeding to the standard. They are trying to sell the runts for almost $3000.00, just like the pet shops do. At the same time, a lot of local rescues are also loaded with them, because this past year they have been getting them in from the South and CA.
If anyone wants chis to buy/adopt on LI, they won't have a problem anymore. The rescues are begging for adoptions and fosters, so they can save more from CA and the South. This past winter at different times, there was 2 male adult chis in my local shelter, and the shelter thinks that someone had been letting them loose, probably one of the BYBs. Thank goodness one got adopted, the other was rescued. Finding a chi in a shelter here is very rare it's usually Pit Bulls and old Shih-Tzu's. Peggy -------Original Message------- From: Mommabear7772004 Date: 5/10/2013 6:28:11 PM To: Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Introducing . . . Someone should send some of the Fla Chis up north . They would get snapped right up . Alabama and South Carolina do it . Sheryl Sent from my iPhone On May 10, 2013, at 4:26 PM, GinbarMinPins <ginbarminp...@aol.com> wrote: Very pretty, unfortunatly Florida has hundreds of Chis in shelters and not enough homes or spots in rescues. Many shelters always have 6+ and most die before being rescued. Monte was a gonner, shelters that have 200-300 dogs just can't give proper vet care or attention. He would have died in a couple of days, poor guy. Robin, the Dobe Axel CGC, TT, the German Pin Ranger CGC, TT, the Chihuahuas Alice CGC and Monte, the MinPins HoneyB, Brutus, and IMPS foster Jordan www.minpinrescue.org -------- Original message -------- Subject: [Chihuahuas] Introducing . . . [1 Attachment] From: Mommabear7772004 <mommabear7772...@yahoo.com> To: all_chihuah...@yahoogroups.com,Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com CC: Introducing Miss Haley ! Our newest family member , she is between 7 - 9 Yrs old , snd missing half her teeth . : ). She came up yesterday from a southern rescue and settling in . Evidently the queen bee cuz she chose the most comfy spot in the house for HERS !! Lol