Breeder’s home pages and advertisments in dog magazines are full of promises, most of it designed to trap you just as soon as you develop a bond with your new companion. Since these traps work on your own emotions, it is within your means to stay out of them, simply by reading and interpreting the ads logically.
Following are some of the real easy to recognize, most blatant indicators of someone using puppies or dogs as merchandise, to be handled, shipped, traded or exchanged for money like pieces of wood or metal, or life meat, fresh from your out of state puppy mill.
Important note: The following tips and guidelines are NOT specific to German Shepherds, but almost all can be applied to all breeds of dogs and to all puppy/dog advertising in any media, in any language.
The three main types of advertised “qualities”: show, working, pet.
Old Fashion Large German Shepherds
Intelligent, Noble, Dignified, Sensitive,
Loyal. Sound in mind and body.
