Blah my mom is irritating me lol. I thought I had gotten through to her about why good breeders are... well, good. And why we want to avoid bad breeders. Exhibit A: Lucy. So she let me look into breeders and pick some for her and I did, and she's on a waiting list and everything was all find and dandy and exciting. And now she's like, responding to ads in the newspaper about puppies! Because she doesn't want to spend "thousands of dollars" on a dog. I keep trying to explain to her that if she does it that way, she's throwing away hundreds of dollars on a complete crapshoot.
I don't know why it's so hard for people!