I breed AKC Labrador Retrievers and sell my puppies in my local area.in I had a gorgeous black female and decided to place her for sale through their site. When purchasing one of my pups, you're getting way more than most breeders are willing to do with their pups/dogs. My pups are raised in their very own puppy nursery inside my beautiful brick home, all adults (4 total) sleep with us, have. 5 acre fenced, well-socialized, mannered, and beautiful. I start paper-training techniques when they are born and they are paper-trained by 3 weeks of age and I work extensively on housebreaking. I would never sell an unhealthy puppy to anyone. All of my dogs, bitches, and pups are vet checked (dewormer is purchased from vet so their is proof, shots are done through the vet, as well as dewclaw removal). Now, if I advertise like this, it almost sounds fraudulent, but I can assure you its not. I love the breed and I stay home to take care of the pups and raise well-tempered, healthy lab puppies (mainly because I've enjoyed them for 25 years and want others too!). I think that their are probably bad breeders and possible bad customers (meaning that sometimes customers could try to defraud too). Say, I ship a perfectly healthy puppy. The buyer has a sick puppy or dog at home that looks similar. They get my healthy and try to say that their sick puppy is ours or another seller's? Also, I'm sure that persons lose pups to parvo. What if they just had a puppy die of parvo, acquire one of my pups or another breeders that look similar, and claim that our pup has parvo. Parvo lives on surfaces for two years and if you just bought a new house (within two years) and plan to purchase a puppy, you need to spray a mild bleach solution over your entire yard surfaces, sidewalks, etc. As well as thoroughly clean the inside of your home. Also, PARVO is transmitted on shoes, cuffs, etc as well as some other dehabilitating viruses. If someone calls me to come out to see my pups (even locally) I tell them that they shouldn't until the pups have had their 1st set of shots. If someone goes "looking" for other puppies, let's say stops at some backyard breeder or professional breeder that has parvo or someone with parvo, or goes to their vet's office, or to the pet store and picks up parvo, they can wipe out an entire litter of pups and all future pups. So, I prefer to sell online. I was probably as scared as the customers buying my pups. The customer was late picking up my darling at the airport and I went frantic. I thought Purebred was a fraud, called for numbers, finally googled the customer's name and found her in California (and worried that I had made a terrible mistake for sending the adorable pup). I was relieved to learn that the puppy was picked up (albeit late) and tremendously loved and doted on my the customer and the customer's kids. So, just for everyone out there, sometimes the worry swings both ways because a customer can lie and tell you all what they have or are going to do for your puppy, but that may or may not be true.
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