13/05/2020
In case it needs to be said specifically. I am one person with a full time business/job requiring around 12 hours a day 5 days a week. I work tirelessly with my husband in order to care for our 4 small children. We maintain a loving but realistic home life with 6 human individuals under the same roof along with 2 fur babies. Zoey we’ve had since she was a tiny puppy and Cooper was adopted for a large sum bc I felt he didn’t have a suitable environment for him to be a happy, healthy puppy. I have been inundated with many many many messages and request. we have grown in popularity simply thru a belief that everyone needs to be treated with respect and understanding. I haven’t been really getting 100% of that attitude back. I try very hard to answer any queries in a timely fashion. If I don’t get back to you, I apologize. I am NOT a puppy mill. I am a loving owner with a life and my own responsibilities beyond our puppies. Let it be known here and now I can’t possibly talk to everyone within minutes of messages. We will be lucky to even talk to everyone at all. We tend to have 8-10 puppies a year. I can only continue to field inquiries that start with good southern manners and continue with such. The stimulus has over doubled the interest in our puppies. It seems like the percent of people interested that will get a puppy is in the single digits. Like around 5-8%. I don’t want to discourage pet lovers. I want to encourage real shih tzu lovers to step up and be the people I believe can be honest, kind, decent, and above all else....polite. I’ve had multiple people make me cry(I’m very serious) bc they were confused or assumed they were the only person to think about getting one of our new additions to the family only to find there are thousands of shih tzu lovers in just Jonesboro alone. If you can’t have patience, I won’t be able to even consider helping you. I am one person. I have mere minutes a day I should be putting into the allocation of puppies to homes, but I still spend hours. I am established and well reviewed, even from the truly difficult people I’ve dealt with in the past. I have let previous litters go for an extremely fair price. The cost will finally be fair to all, not just the adopters. Zoey can’t have puppies forever and I need her to be healthy as long as possible. When she passes I’m afraid my heart won’t be able to bear replacing her. I will not suffer indignities and stark rudeness. I realize it is inevitable but I dint get a lot and I don’t get even close to the compensation it would take to cover the aggravation some people push on me. I have major health issues. Stress exacerbates my condition. My quality of life suffers as I suffer and my family suffers along with me bc I can’t filter. My heart is on my sleeve and our puppies are part of my heart. They aren’t my life but I do care about everyone of them and am in contact with previous adopters who send updates, pictures, stories, etc etc. They pretty much all feel lucky to have received their little precious puppy babies. I believe happiness comes my forms. We are lucky to be able to help add some happiness to this world. Hard rule is puppy/price is locked only after deposit is made. We will not hold any puppy bc someone promises to take care of it pretty soon. It’s first come, first serve and I tend to gravitate towards people I like. We can start taking $100 non refundable deposits at any point. If a puppy ends up not being available on my end, you may very well get a refund though. Even Walmart changes prices daily. I’ve only started to change over the last couple of litters. From this day forward, I will do my best to be forthcoming with info but again, I’m one person trying to answer dozens, hundreds. I am bad at math but it’s really difficult to keep up with and I’m not great with grammar so my point can be lost on occasion. It’s bad enough, my loving, perfect, gorgeous, talented and massively intelligent husband had to interpret my anxiety and write this whole thing for me;)
I apologize if this seems a tad negative but I’ve been holding this for awhile and had to over share. These are incredibly rare Zoey-Cooper shih tzus. We may call them Zooper shih tzus! Lol. They really are beautiful, strong, and loyal companions. I love them terribly. You will too.