Good DogReviews of gooddog.com

I am a breeder and my recommendation is to choose another platform to market your puppies. The team lacks good customer service. I have my dogs listed on other platforms such as AKC and Puppy Spot. This platform has by far the worst communication. They make decisions without even talking to the breeders or clarifying. Their policies are obscure and will absolutely ban you arbitrarily without even checking the circumstances. Getting their compliance department on the phone is NOT possible. Please read their policies carefully they will take down a listing without any explanation or opportunity for you to explain. WORST WEBSITE I Have ever dealt with in terms of customer service from a breeders stand point.

I joined Good Dog because I believed the platform carefully screened its breeders and that this would provide a higher level of professionalism, transparency and accountability than searching for a dog through ordinary online listings. Unfortunately, my experience with breeders I have encountered through Good Dog has been extremely disappointing. I traveled from Colorado to South Carolina specifically to meet an adult Labrador after extensive conversations with the breeder about the temperament I was looking for. I was repeatedly told the dog was well socialized, loved people and was affectionate. When I arrived, the dog I met was extremely fearful, cowering, avoiding eye contact and uncomfortable interacting with unfamiliar people. This was temperament information I absolutely would have wanted before spending thousands of dollars and traveling across the country. I subsequently communicated with another Good Dog breeder about an adult Labrador. There were lengthy discussions about the dog’s price, including pressure around availability and a deposit before I had even met the dog. We ultimately scheduled an appointment to meet at the breeder’s home. We arrived at the confirmed time, knocked and waited approximately 15 minutes. No one answered the door or contacted us, so we left. The breeder finally appeared after we were already gone. These experiences have left me seriously questioning what Good Dog’s breeder screening and approval process actually guarantees a prospective buyer. A polished profile, health-testing information and positive reviews are useful, but they do not necessarily tell you how accurately a breeder represents a dog’s temperament or how professionally that breeder will conduct themselves. I strongly recommend that anyone using Good Dog do their own extensive due diligence, meet an adult dog in person before paying a deposit whenever possible, and not assume that being approved by Good Dog is, by itself, an assurance of the experience you will have with a breeder.

All the boxer breeders I have found on this group so far, use rubber bands to make the puppies tails fall off. This practice is widely considered by all experts, to be cruel and inhumane. In many places, these breeders could be prosecuted for animal cruelty. It is what dog breeders do to turn the biggest profit possible. Please do your research. These are 100% puppy mills.

I have been raising puppies for fifteen years.And I have never been scammed. But now good dog wants to charge more for advertising than any other platform in the industry.And claim they're protecting us from scammers. They demonetize small breeders. Basically, if you don't sell a large percentage of dogs on their platform, they put your listings lower in the ranking.So fewer people see them. They force you to make all of your dogs health.Testing public. In this day and age were the behavior of a real scammer is simply to steal your data. I have already seen people.Steal my dog's information and register a fake litter to my dog because of information that was only available on good dog. If you don't post your dog's health. Testing and private information publicly.You can't be competitive on this site. They should allow us to file it with them.So they know we have it, and they can confidently say the dog's testing is verified, but not force us to post it publicly in order to be competitive. Somehow, they are developing a monopoly over all other advertising sites. i'm sorry, but give me back good old fashioned puppyfind, . We the people can look out for ourselves. Nobody is incentivizing me.This is my personal opinion

There site clearly says there not liable! then breeder just wantsto text and when i did get a call good dog blocks breeders cell number. Your expected to leave money on a picture of a dog like your buying shoes. then towards the end the website is automated and keeps trying you to pay balance. you would have to be an idiot to pay the freight on something you havent seen and the breeder hides behind this site. No real animal lover would trust this site . So stay away go find a real breeder!

am a preservation breeder who uses gooddog. I hate it. But its the only site that people are using..they take a 6.5% cut from payment, so on a 2,000 pup, they take $130. EVERY SINGLE PUPPY. That's extremely high. Then they hit my CLIENTS for another 3% average. I breed fully OFA health tested champion parents and yes, I must post the test results for each parent. They have now gone to AI on their communications between clients and breeders. So when you or I click to call each other, the call is filtered through a call relay center. My call doesn't show my number on your caller ID. Your number shows an Indiana phone number on my caller ID. The call center is from Indiana. Why? Because if you communicate off their site, the clients will offer to pay cash. Not go through the payment system and they don't get to gouge the breeder. So if they make it to where you don't know each other's numbers, you're stuck. I wouldn't be surprised if the AI call center is programed to pick up buzz words, and gooddog notified on calls where cash is discussed and alternative phone numbers are given. Then they drop your exposure rate to 50%..I do know they monitor your messages.. When I first signed up, they heavily emphasized that BREEDERS NEVER PAY A FEE.. So now they got us, and 2 years ago, started the 6.5% fee..an ad on AKC Marketplace is $45 to advertise the entire litter. Legitimate breeders like myself are furious, the BYB and puppy mills don't care because they're selling puppies.they just mass produce more puppies to make up for it. AKC marketplace is full of foreign scammers so the buyers are scared to use it. Same with puppies.com . BYB paradise. . Luckily 2/3 of my puppies sell through private referals so I only have to sell a few on gooddog, I write the fees off my taxes.. I've been breeding my chosen breed since 2004. I'm probably going to stop breeding soon because of this nonsense..

An incredibly disappointing experience. Having connected with a recommended Breeder via the Good Dog website, we agreed a contract for delivery of a puppy to the UK. I duly paid a deposit of $1,500 directly to the Breeder. However, despite sending images and videos of the puppy for five months, she failed to deliver it and then refused to answer calls or emails. Having reported this to Good Dog, they acknowledged receipt, but have failed to communicate further with details of any action taken. Very poor customer care indeed.

I was in contact with Bonnie from Bejays's Corgis. After many months of waiting, by dog did not materialize. I have a feeling that Bonnie may have over-promised puppies. I had requested a male, fluffy with a tail and was assured this could be provided to me...ah, not so much... my $200 deposit is gone. I have moved on with another reputable breeder that I respect. Fluffy male with a tail was no problem!