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Havanese Breeders – What You Need To Know To Avoid Puppy Brokers
You wouldn’t be looking them up online if you didn’t think of them as adorable – the Havanese dog, among the toy dog breeds, is one of a kind. For a pet categorized as a toy dog breed, they’re not that small, and unlike the stereotyped bratty small dog, this one is affectionate without being a brat; throw in the fact that it hardly sheds, and you have a small dog winner. Because of a rise in the demand for this breed, it probably is not surprising why there’s an attendant rise in the number of dishonest Havanese Breeders lately.
If you’re buying from a breeder, meeting up with them is like showing up at a salesman’s pitch – you try to be skeptical, you hold on to your questions, and you don’t buy everything said and shown. A dishonest breeder will know what to show you to convince you to clinch the deal right there – a clean breeding area, cute liters, and maybe falsified documents pertaining to breeding registration and medical check ups/vaccinations. You expect to be interviewed about your capacity to take care of these pups, and the puppy broker pretends to be interested in you, and even asks to see your home.
What you can do, before you meet up, is to ask a breeder to specify the breeding clubs he is a member of, so you can check his background. You might be shown wall to wall plaques of participation in this event, or certification of having attended that conference or training – all of which can be false. So you really need to check his references before you meet up. The bad news? He could be working with others, and the references he provides you might be his confederates.
There’s actually more bad news. You might not be able to tell the forged documents from the real ones, especially when the faux Havanese Breeders show those pertaining to breeding history, registration, and medical records. The only way the faux breeder is going to let you have those documents, for checking, is after you buy the dogs – and by the time you track down and nail the untrue, you will have on your hands several unhealthy dogs with avoidable hereditary health conditions. The respected registration organizations have online databases against which you can check the papers you were given, but that may be too late, too.
If you could, on your meeting, bring a device connected to the web, so you can check the documents presented to you against the online database, that would be great – you can get answers there and then. If the breeder agrees, that’s good; that could mean he’s legit; if he refuses and pressures you to buy the dogs or go away, then you have your answer as far as legitimacy is concerned. You could also look up stories by people who bought from faux breeders – if you can look them up online and probably read up on their aliases (it’s unlikely the breeders will give up their real names).
