Since good dog changed their rules to mark breeders who sell through their platform as most preferred breeders instead of ranking people by breed standard and health testing, it’s all backyard breeders all the way down the list. Actual “good breeders” are not ranking since they are not pumping out puppies for sale like a puppy mill.
These are people who are breeding off-standard not health tested dogs. What an absolute shame, how can they say the value responsible breeders and then rank up people based on how many puppies they produce and sell instead of what actually matters? All a breeder has to do is just check a box saying they are doing health testing and good dog will say “Breeder reports doing testing” – YOU need to be the one to verify that though.
Anyone on that website can say they health test, good dog doesn’t actually check, So you are still going to have to validate that information yourself if the breeder did not provide it on their breeding stocks profiles. So unless they provided documentation on their breeding stocks profile then those claims mean absolutely nothing.
Although i do list myself on good dog for exposure, it makes me extremely upset that respected breeders are being pushed to the end of the list because they are not hitting good dog’s quota of selling multiple puppies every 6 months on the platform – and instead i am seeing some of the most ill intentions, money hungry, lying and shady backyard breeders topping lists.
That doesn’t mean that there are not ANY good breeders on there, this website would still be a lot more reliable than a pet broker website which is purely irresponsibly bred dogs, but please always DO YOUR RESEARCH as many breeders listed on there are just pretending.
