It is really weird to me how people can keep their dogs in cages their whole lives!!!!!! A few years ago we needed to board Marta for a few days and I was looking for a good kennel. Well, I looked at 2 places that boarded, and they also happened to breed dogs.

One woman breeds schnauzers and shows them, they do ok in the show ring, but most of them were locked up. Also, she advised me to use a mouse trap to help with Marta's house training!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Needless to say, we didn't take Marta there.

We looked at another place which looked ok until she said she bred Papillions, and she showed us them- there must have been 30 of them all stuck in kennels!!!!!!!!! We asked if she ever let them out, she said something like, "Are you kidding?? Do you know what 20 of them are like?" I couldn't believe it and of course we didn't take Marta there either! (In the end we got lucky as it was the opening weekend of a dog daycare, Marta was their 1st client and we got 1/2 off plus she had a ton of fun instead of being locked up).

Well, sorry to ramble, I'm just saying I agree and it is hard to tell. The woman who breeds schnauzers is well known around here but I think she is a horrible woman and I feel for her dogs.