Best golden doodle breeder
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| Peters Puppies in North Carolina! I have two goldendoodles from them - both healthy and with perfect temperaments. |
Anonymous
This place is a backyard breeder with a fancy website. They charge way too much for their dogs, and some of their policies scream sucker to me. A $500 non refundable deposit even if you don't get a dog?? Also, they do not offer in person visits prior to picking a dog...that's insane. Perfect temperaments or not this place does its dogs a serious disservice. |
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I just looked up Peters Puppies and they seem reasonable to me. Why should anyone get to go inspect a person's home? this is their rationale:
We used to have weekly visiting hours, but we made the decision to discontinue this practice for these reasons. 1)Three different times now, we have had puppies get broken legs from visitors stepping on or dropping puppies. 2) Allowing visitors greatly increases the risk of the puppies catching Parvo or other life-threatening diseases. Puppies have delicate immune systems and no vaccinations yet. 3) Our puppies are raised INSIDE our home, not in a kennel with a public meeting area. It's not safe to allow virtual strangers into our home. 4) We would set hours (12-1:30, for example) and inevitably someone would show up during the last few minutes, saying that they drove many hours and got stuck in traffic. Then, visiting hours ended up taking the entire day. This was stressful for us, the puppies, and the mom of the puppies. 5) We tried to limit the number of visitors to two adults per family, and people would still show up with carloads of people and children. At times, there were 30 or more people (strangers) in our home and yard!! 6) Visitors greatly stress out our new mommies, who are hormonal and protective of their puppies. 7) We video every single day! With today's technology, in-person visits are not needed to see exactly how our puppies are raised. 8)We also provide personal visits via Zoom or Skype. |
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Check out their facebook page to see daily (sometimes 3-4x per day) videos of the puppies.
The deposit is so they know their demand and can plan litters accordingly. |
Anonymous
| TLC by the Lake Poodles and Doodles, Maryland location. We got our goldendoodle girl from them and hands down would get another dog from Trudy! Best temperament ever, easy to train and healthy dog. Trudy and her family love their dogs. |
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You visit a breeder's house so you can meet the breeder's other dogs and the litter to decide if they are a good fit for your family and to verify the dogs' health and conditions they are raised in. It's also a good opportunity for the breeder to assess you and your needs. Believe it or not, the best breeders won't even let you pick your dog--they'll make sure you get the best pet for your family.
No breeder plans litters based on demand. That's what a puppy mill is. And most breeders do not take or require deposits--once you and the breeder decide the other one is a good fit, they will let you know when a litter is available or planned. That's why it can be months or years for some breeds to get a puppy--it's not an instantaneous result! A careful and considerate breeder wants to match you with the right puppy. Don't want to wait? I get that, adopt instead. These are both really basic tenets of good and ethical dog breeding. The fact that so many buyers are apparently unwilling to do any research to verify that the dogs they are purchasing are raised humanely and for the right reason is really baffling, especially when you are paying so much more than you would pay for a well bred pure bred dog! |
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I am still looking at the Peters Puppies website and see this: Available Puppies:
When you see websites with many puppies available immediately (especially sites with a "click-here, buy now" button), we URGE you to read the breeder's reviews!!! Like most reputable and ethical breeders, we have a waiting list BEFORE we have a litter of puppies. We also breed specifically for temperament, structure and health, not just color/markings; if your only focus is getting a puppy that has certain color/markings, our program will not be a good fit for you. Looks can and will change as the puppy ages!!! Our process is different than most others. If we have enough interest in a Potential litter (people will mark their interest in our private customer portal), only then do we proceed with having that litter. We have puppies available immediately only when we have larger than average litters, or when people back out last minute. |
Anonymous
Glad your dog worked out. Way too many different kinds of dogs and they are breeding Merle into their lines which is not naturally occurring. Charging different amounts for less desirable colors is also a huge red flag. |
Anonymous
Yes, it's great they are saying this to differentiate themselves from a true puppy mill, but it means...nothing. They are breeding off standard dogs, charging a fortune for them, and normalizing things like not seeing where your puppy is raised because apparently they couldn't figure out how to do safe meet and greets like literally every other breeder. They aren't the worst but why pay more for less? And where's the OFA testing? (Plus, uh, they make you promise to follow them on facebook when you submit your form, that's weird?) |
Anonymous
It's not that hard to say "no" to people at the door. My breeder said no children around puppies. They only let us play with the puppies that fit our criteria (like only female) on selection day. |
Anonymous
+1000. I'd love to see that citation as well. Maybe PP expects rescues to just give dogs away for free. Having done rescue work for 15+ years, I can assure you no one is making a profit. In fact, many of us pay out of our own pockets to subsidize the costs that go into making a rescue dog adoptable. |
Anonymous
Same -- we love our FCF girl. Their breeding dogs live with guardian families who only bring them back to FC to be bred 3-4 times max and then they are retired (for the females; males I'm not sure how it works.). FCF guardians don't pay for any expenses until the dog is done breeding. |
Anonymous
| Also, I looked for a doodle from a rescue for 3 months before resigning to a breeder -- I have allergies and asthma and have had doodles since I was a kid. (backyard romance produced the first one.). rest of my family wasn't interested in a straight poodle. |
Anonymous
There are things they can do to prevent dogs being stepped on. That’s ridiculous. They’re selling puppies for thousands of dollars but balk at having visiting hours? It’s a small inconvenience for the approx 30k they get for one litter. It’s lies. |
Anonymous
Guardian homes are not a good thing--they are a well known way to pump out more puppies for profit! Also, again, this place has way too many puppies available from multiple litters almost immediately and requires non-refundable fees for deposit and application. Not a place interested in producing the best possible dogs. Again, it is NORMAL to have to wait a few months or more for a well-bred dog (and it won't cost as much as these). There is so much info on choosing a good breeder available out there -it is sad that people are convinced that they deserve a specific dog without waiting and so are fine with supporting these places instead. It's just willful ignorance at this point. |