This page is to explain why I will not be selling any more puppies through gooddog.com.
Gooddog.com started out being an extremely good resource for puppy buyers. They didn’t care about the quality of puppies but required proof of health testing in order to list our puppies on their website.
Now Gooddog.com has gone drastically down hill. They no longer verify health testing, they just offer a gold star of sorts, if a breeder tells them they do health testing (whether they actually do or not). Most of the breeders they promote are backyard breeders and give no recognition to breeders of quality at all. Now, they also include listings for puppy mills and backyard breeders of mixed breed dogs (mutts).
More recently, Gooddog.com has implemented a new policy and decided they are entitled to profit from the hard work of breeders and now require all payments go through their own payment portal, essentially raising the price of our puppies by the percentage they feel entitled to, costing buyers hundreds of extra dollars. This does a huge disservice to breeders who only accept cash and only after the buyers have met their new puppy and are ready to take them home.
It is against the law through the Animal Welfare Act, for breeders sell puppies “sight unseen” without a commercial breeders license from the USDA, and it is also against the law for someone to sell puppies on our behalf without a USDA Broker’s License. Yet Gooddog.com has hired attorneys to help them skirt this law, which makes me uncomfortable with them handling my money and I refuse to agree to their policy.
Though I am listed on Gooddog.com so buyers have the option to pick a better breeder, I have been told by people who have used Gooddog.com to find a breeder, that they were scammed by the breeder Gooddog.com sent them.
I have used Gooddog.com myself, on my own search for a puppy and they continually harrassed me for not picking one of their recommended backyard breeders to buy my puppy from. Almost every day, they sent me recommendations for crap-quality breeders they felt I should buy my puppy from.