[mastifflover]

I agree nothing better than a rescue dog. If you find one and there are a ton of Maltese available on petfinder if the dog is in the states a lot of rescues will help you to make arrangements to ship the dog to you. You would get the dog and probably not even spend the 800 with all of that and you would still have money left and you would be most importantly saving a life. Much better idea than giving money to a byb or a puppymill because that is where pet store dogs come from. Ontariogreys is right if you go this route you will need to have a nice savings account for vet bills because you will need it. I have a friend who would not listen and bought a pug at a pet store for way too much money and in the first weekend she had 1800 in emergency vet bills which the store would do nothing about she has since sued them and has also spent about 4000 in vet bills in 2 years. She has since changed her tune about byb and mills. Please be very careful