Let me try to be half civilized here...
I can't help but to reply to this post, and I apologize ahead of time
because I didn't see the original post for this. But I would have to
disagree strongly about any references endorsing this breeder.
I'll just share my little story: Our first berner that we bought, we bought
blindly and yes, it was one of Bloemert's berners. We didn't know much
about what we were doing and like many folks who are new to the breed and
who are not as well educated, we bought the first puppy we saw. To top it
off, a friend of my in-laws also bought a puppy from them. Both our puppies
from day one have had health problems. We probably spent a large amount of
money, including $1,200 for surgery when the berners were about 1 years old
or younger. We were lucky, our berner only need surgery on one shoulder,
but the other berner needed it in both shoulders. I don't agree with you
that the temperments are good. If anything I would say it's more on the
sharp side.
In any litter, there can always be one or two really nice looking dogs. But
nice looking doesn't say anything about their health. I would never
encourage anyone to use this breeder and when I hear of people looking for
breeders I try to warn them away from breeders like this one. When Max had
his surgery, I sent e-mails, and none of them were returned nor responded
to. The other owner also tried getting in contact with them with no luck.
I went to two vets, one specialist, both of whom indicated that our dogs
were pre-disposed to have this condition because of the age that they were
first diagnosed. Then to top it off, the surgeon indicated to me that our
dog may have vWd. So we pay to get all the blood work done and they said it
came back inconclusive. However they can't explain why my dog bleeds so
much and why he does not clot as well as other dogs.
Now after all this, we thought long and hard on whether or not we wanted
another berner. We were very skeptical and after the amount of money that
we had put into vet bills for Max, were really didn't want to repeat that
with another berner. So, we took a chance with another breeder. Here is a
big difference between, in my own opinion, a good breeder and one who really
doesn't care as long as the money is there. When we bought Patch, we
thought we would never get him. The first puppy we had pick, there were
some problems with and one of his testicles didn't drop. Liliane
immediately contacted me and told me since I was looking for a show puppy
she would not sell me this one unless his other one dropped. Then she
contacted me and offered me another puppy who she thought was show quality,
which I accepted because by this time I felt like I trusted her. Well, we
finally got Patch here and from the day we got him, it was amazing to us the
difference in quality between him as a puppy and Max as a puppy. Both VERY
cute, but very different. Patch spends very little time at the vets and has
a beautiful coat in comparison. Of course Patch is not without fault, he
has those, but in terms of quality, I think he comes from a better breeder.
I still am in contact with the breeder and she always wants to know how
Patch is doing. I hardly think Max's breeder would care except that she got
over $1,000 from us.
Again, this is my story and my experience with the subject matter and I
think it was long overdue. If anyone has any specific questions for me,
please feel free to e-mail me privately.
Karyn Waugh
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