Hi. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about a possible scam and definite bad breeder in Idaho. My girlfriend and I have been looking for a dane puppy for a while and have read up on all of what we should look for in a breeder. We really wanted to buy from a local breeder so that we could go a see their facility, meet the parents, and puppies before they were ready to go. We were really excited when we saw an ad for Blue Dawn Danes in Moscow, Idaho. We live in Lewiston, Idaho and decided to make the 40min drive up to Moscow yesterday to drive by the breeder's house and maybe knock on the door. We were appalled by what we saw when we got there. The first impression was not a good one. We had to drive down the alley due to road construction blocking the way our GPS said to go.in their backyard is an enormous mound of garbage. It looks to be several months worth. We were really disgusted. We drove around to the front of the house and the place is really dumpy looking. I don't mean to bash on anyone's way of living but, it made us sad to think that there were puppies living in there. I'm surprised that the place is not condemed. We had originally had some concerns about them as a breeder after looking at their website and seeing their house just confirmed all of them. Don't get me wrong, I am all for a spay/neuter contract. But this breeder says that if you don't send them the spay/neuter certificate within 6 days of the procedure, you have to pay them $1000! Same thing if you break any part of the contract. Needless to say, we are extremely disappointed and are pretty sure these people are running a scam... Hoping you don't read the contract you sign and then they can sue you for thousands. We were also very disappointed that they didn't even have their dog's hips certified. Everything we have read up on the breed says that this is a must have. Seems a bit rediculous to be selling dogs for this much money that live in a squalid environment and have not been health tested. We tried to contact animal control today but there isn't anything they can do unfortunately. I guess all we can do is be proactive and get the word out that these folks are up to no good. Please feel free to email me with any questions.
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