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I recommend not using Good Dog or purchasing a dog from Caitlin Fowler of Centurion Canines. Caitlin with Centurion Canines, at first provided great information and was responsive with her follow ups. Everything seemed to be normal until I gave her a $500 deposit to secure a male from their next litter from the female mom that we agreed on. After the deposit, there was missed timeline after missed timeline and I no longer received updates from Caitlin and responses from her were starting to be delayed. I was very patience and understanding as I know this can happen and there is little control over when the dog gets pregnant, however, I am very disappointed on how there is no protection for the consumer when the agreed upon timeline and parents of the expected litter is missed and changed. Caitlin then proceed to try and pass us off to another breeder they had used in the past. This was not an option for us, however as we had already given her $500. I was skeptical about purchasing through a breeder because of this reason. I felt better about the decision due to me finding Centurion Canines on Good Dog's website. For some reason, I thought the requirements were higher for a breeder to be listed on Good Dog's site, however, after review, it seems like any breeder can list on this website which is very disappointing. I write this review to make buyers aware as many of us are excited to add a new puppy to our families. Just please be cautious on who you work with. Keeping $500 from not meeting your end of the deal seems like robbery and is not the right thing to do.

We spent almost over $2,000 for what I believe is a mixed breed. My so called Chihuahua is already 7.5 pounds at 6 months and very tall. The breeder claimed he would be only about 5 pounds as an adult, He’s scared of everything and looks like a bulldog in the face. The breeder never mailed me the paperwork on my pup’s authenticity! I could’ve gone to the pound and adopted a dog like this. When I contacted the seller; it was crickets and the same is to be said about Good Dog. They Never responded when I wrote to them and have yet to do so; they lied. They do not have your Back and they did not protect me from being bamboozled. We feel cheated about our purchase and will never use this Trash service again. If I could give them 0 stars, I most certainly would Beware of some of these breeders, most are probably puppy mills; that’s why I got stuck with a $2,000.00 mutt! Do better Good Dog.com

A Provider on this platform sold my family a dog with parvo and an expired medical certificate. The service itself was helpful. However, the provider who literally broke the law is still on the platform and advertising animals for sale.

Gooddog used to be good, now they force breeders to use their payment platform or they will kick you out if not, they also made a new “preferred breeder program” where you get basically more views because your posts come up higher on the search tab if you accept payments through them, it’s one of the requirements. Absolutely wrong! A puppymill near me that does not even come close to breeding to the breed standard, mixing breeds and just breeding poor quality dogs is allowed to have their posts ahead of mine because they take payments with gooddog, meanwhile my posts hardly get seen and I can’t even accept a payment because nobody that contacts me is serious enough to follow through. Absolutely upset at all the new changes and it’s not fair to actual real good breeders. If I could get someone to commit so I can take a payment I would. I breed to the proper breed standard beautiful beautiful dogs, top winning show dogs fully health tested Yet This backyard breeder that only does the bare minimum health testing and doesn’t show their dogs at all or do anything to better the breed they just take 2 dogs together and breed them for profit and do the bare min health testing to “get by” gets all the recognition .. it’s disgusting. Way to promote low end breeders It’s not just about letting a breeder in because they will use your payment platform or because they do some health testing The quality of the dogs they produce says a lot and there are many on gooddog especially in my breed that absolutely do not belong on there , it gives the breed a bad reputation and reflects poorly on gooddog as well Really sad

Have sent multiple messages about a puppy and have gotten no response whatsoever. This is possibly a scam or they are not serious about their business or are very bad at business. Update: have now sent 5 messages, filled out an application and made a phone call as advised in the response to this review. Crickets. Have not had one response to messages/application and the phone call was not answered. I would give negative stars if I could

I trusted Good Dog with their screening process for responsible breeders. They even state on their website: "They also make sure their puppies are well raised and well fed, and the breeders take all basic steps necessary to care for their puppies, such as vaccinations and deworming." However, my puppy was sent to me with massive amounts of hookworms and because of the waiting period with starting pet health insurance, it cost me over 800 dollars. When paying the breeder, I chose to pay the extra fee to Good Dog so that I could have peace of mind if anything should go wrong. They told me it is standard that breeders don't do anything for worms even though they state otherwise. This is false advertising and I will never go through them again. I'd look around for other options before going through Good Dog because they're misleading with what they say on their website. They refuse to pay me anything back for this mess. Find another website to go through!

DO NOT PURCHASE FROM THIS PLATFORM. I put a deposit down on a puppy, a pretty large amount too because the breeder and I worked delivery out and we really wanted the puppy. The payment automatically adds puppy payment protection. A couple days later the breeder changed his mind on delivery and said he had a person for transportation, but it was additional. Never heard back from him so I reached out a two days later and he said that his transportation is no longer available and I would have to figure it out. I have two toddlers and a baby and have been saving for a puppy for their birthday. So the additional cost of transportation, I was going to try and make work. But traveling for it was not really an option I wanted to consider. I never received pictures when I asked for them and only got a couple videos of all the puppies so you couldn't tell which was ours. Long story short, I decided to cancel the reservation because the breeder changed the delivery that we agreed twice then denied that we arranged something. He also denied me a refund. Once I told him I wanted a refund, he became rude and I no longer wanted to deal with him. I reached out to Good Dog and I delt with three different people and a lot of back and forth. Now it's two weeks later and they told me that they support breeders and their deposit policies. Y'all I GOT NOT CONTRACT or was even told there was no refunds until after. It is not listed on their or the puppy's profile (I have screenshots to show for it). Not only that but they were pushing me to proceed with the puppy and GIVE THEM MORE MONEY. Although we really wanted the puppy, this was too much for me and my husband and I decided to get a local dog. So basically I am out of $815 because of money hungry, lazy people who just want money handed to them and not work for it. Wish I read the reviews before using them because I definitely would not have. THEY ARE A SCAM and so is their "puppy payment protection". I am now looking into taking legal action. BEWARE and look elsewhere for a new furry friend.

I loved this site when they first started; when they actually made breeders show proof of health testing and put you through a a vigorous interview before being accepted. Now they’ve gotten a taste of money and power and have gone right down the toilet, no longer verifying health tests, registration or even purebred status and instead promote backyard breeders and puppy mills and kick out any Breeder who refuses to play along with them controlling the the conversation and payments. When I was looking for a show quality show prospect then sent me direct links to the most garbage quality pups on the site, multiple times a day and there is no way to filter by quality. It is apparent they don’t want quality, reputable breeders on their site because they aren’t as easy to control and manipulate. I had to personally get two puppy mills removed, one was known for using rescues to produce puppies. Additionally, I have a client that goi d ke after she was scammed by a “Good dog Breeder” for thousands of dollars! This site now just makes me really sad because buyers dont realize there are much better options!