Scammers are getting harder for the average person to spot. First I want to say that no one is perfect. Certainty not me. Breeding even if done perfectly by all the “ever changing rules” experts spew is still flawed. How can it not be? We are dealing with living breathing beings. But honesty and integrity, learning from mistakes, gaining more knowledge in addition to experience are all important. This is where many mislead and lie.

Once again another breeder has been called out for abandoning her Siberian Huskies, moving out of Texas and starting over in Colorado with Poodles. This “breeder” bragged about “changing the game in Siberian Huskies” being the best “woolly coat breeder”, doing all the health testing, and charging over 3000 for her puppies. She was listed on the “Good Breeder” website, boosted about using Puppy Culture, and hiring a trainer to train all her puppies before going home. She posted YouTube and TikTok videos giving advice on breeding, training and food. None of which she is qualified to do. She came up on my radar several years ago when I saw her on my Supernova Siberians facebook page. When I started to investigate her I saw she stole a lot of my verbiage and wording. She was trying hard to sound intelligent and knowledgeable without any true knowledge or experience as she just started in breeding and huskies. The next thing I noticed was her constantly acquiring and rehoming puppies. Always blaming the rehoming of the puppy she acquired as being faulty, bad breeding, bad temperament, etc. She first wanted to breed show quality but then got into woolly coats (because some breeders choose to charge double or triple for long hair). She often insulted other breeders on social media for poor breeding accusing them of being “back yard breeders” and “puppy mills”. The truth was she was the fraud. She quickly acquired woolly coat Siberians focusing on blue eyes and the popular coat colors, mostly black, mostly coopers, agouti etc. The “money makers”. One can assume she gathered too many, too quickly some have claimed the dogs were under weight, and had scars from fighting. In the end she abandoned these dogs and they ended up in a shelter. Thankfully many on social media called her out, and I believe all her dogs were adopted. But she moved out of state and is trying again with a different breed.

The lesson is that there is no registry (akc, ukc, ckc, etc) that makes a breeder reputable. There is no health testing or training that makes a breeder reputable, no dog sports and no puppy program that makes a breeder reputable. Because they are only reputable as the breeder claiming to use them are. In the time of social media where everyone wants to be an influencer, I also want to point out that going viral and having the most followers also does not make you trust worthy. Putting your ego above your dogs welfare is not responsible.

Breeding is wonderful, fun, but it is also a lot of work, and can be very heartbreaking. There is a difference between a breeder, a shitty person breeding hoping to get rich quick and an irresponsible pet owner who breeds. I know accidents happen, I’ve had some myself, but how those accidents are handled is everything. Breeders do not dump puppies, breeders do not dump dogs. Breeders know this is a life long commitment.

The ugliness in the dog world really turns me off. Because the scams also leak over to the “adopt don’t shop” rescue folks as well. It is getting harder for the average person to choose a puppy. No matter where you buy a puppy…. from a breeder, or shelter, please research first.