Brushy Creek Kennel Beware of sick puppies!!! Do not buy from these people!!!!! Hockley Texas

I find the above complaints about Dave and Brushy Crek Kennel strange. I have dealt with them for several years and have nothing but priase for them. I have had cavaliers and english cockers from them and they have been remarkable and healthy and well-tempered. Every single one of them have integrated perfectly into my family and bonded within a few short hours as they adjusted to new surroundings.

I was allowed to see the whole operation and found the dogs well cared for and excellent facilities. The fact hat a dog developed parvo is irrelevant. This is a virus and there is no way to prevent it from happening. I care for my animals as well as anyone that I have ever met and over the past 15 years or so have had two incidences. I had a single labrador as a pet 15 years ago that got ti out of the blue which is usually the case. Then I had it strike a litter of puppies that were in the window period before they could have shot protection. These were with me in my travel trailer at the time and had no obvious exposire. This is a very good reason for not allowing people to treck back into the kennel. Many people often visit other kenels and can bring disease to the new kenel with them and totally wipe out the animals.


I even lost one mother during whelping from bleeding. This was her second litter while I owned her. David gave me a beautiful replacement and an English Cocker Spaniel who was a perfect specimen of the breed. He was not required to, he just felt sorry for me because he know that I loved the one that died so much.
I am also a breeder and have lots of knowledge with regard to the business of breeding animals. Some things that I have learned is that everyone has their own perfect opioion of how breeding should be conducted, when it should be conducted, who should be "allowed" to do it, who should decide who is allowed to do it, how facilities should be constructed, and what is and is not a puppy mill. If you have 1 acre of room for a puppy to run and play, then someone thinks you should have 5 acres; if you have 5 acres, someone will always think you should have 10. If you have more that one bred, then that is wrong somehow just because they say it is wrong. Well, I actually think that anyone that breeds puppies for sale is running a puppy mill. Some think that if you a a blue-blood and send your dogs off with a handler along with 20 other peoples dogs in a tiny kenel on the back of a truck, then you are a real animal lover and not a puppy mill. I think those folks are the worst.

I also understand the no refund policy. The contract with the kennel is a replacement warranty for a puppy of same breed/value.

People should also know that PETA does not think that anyone should be breeding dogs and have an intense effort ongoing filing frivilous complaints against anyone who does. The have made inroads by infiltrating the Humane society and have seriously damage the formerly good work of the humane society.

To the person who is too cheap to drive 2 hours to get a puppy: You are too cheap to own a puppy and would probably just buy cheap worthless food at Wal-mark. Maybe you should try something like a hamster.

Rick Nelson, MD