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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know people have really negative opinions on getting puppies from the PA Amish community. We’ve gotten three. All have been AKC registered and had medical records to prove their care and shots. All had been dewormed. None had health problems. All lived in barns and were well socialized. Our most recent was also housebroken at a really young age.

And we got cats from a rescue. The rescue was dishonest and didn’t tell us they needed to be rehomed because they didn’t use a litter box. We spent years and tons of money trying to fix this to no avail.

Despite my experience to the contrary, I’m sure there are bad Amish dog breeders and I’m sure there good and honest rescues. But you shouldn’t pay any attention to those who try to tell you one is all bad or you should try the other.

Good luck in finding your puppy.  [/quote]
You got a full picture of where/how the puppies (and maybe their mom) lived from the time they were whelped until they were weaned and sold, but where is the mom the rest of the time? How frequently and how many times total will they breed her? How many breeding females do they own? Do they own the sire of this litter? If so, where is he? Do they have a copy of his papers?  How closely related are the dam and the sire?

We used to visit an Amish farm that’s open for tours once each summer and were totally naive about all of this. No one actually lives in the house you can tour, but it is a working farm. We were delighted the first year we went because they had a litter of adorable puppies you could cuddle, out in a barn. The second year we went, hey, what a coincidence, they had a new litter of puppies that year too! The third year, they had two different breeds of puppies. Guess what? They have at least one litter of puppies at all times. The mothers of the litters are never on display, but the puppies seem like absolute perfection and they’re well socialized from being cuddled by strangers all day. Visitors don’t see anything alarming.[/quote]

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