[Maureen]

Originally Posted by sheamusmom

The only ones who should be breeding are professionals who are motivated to better the health of the breed, and take genetics and parental health, as well as temperament into consideration. It's not just about having a "good looking dog"......and then, it's about making a lifetime commitment to that animal as part of your family.

Sheamusmom, I and all the other participating breeders here completely agree wtih your statment above!
HOWEVER, I do place puppies via long distance and personal delivery and when I say the puppies are born in my bedroom they ARE born in my bedroom! I have LOCAL clients, who have become friends, who can verify that, if a long-distance person wants to know more about me from local eyes. And there are happy Doodle owners here on this forum who have our puppies, yet had not met me nor their puppies before our planes landed. I expect a breeder to work hard to give an interstate client as much info as possible to make sure the puppy's new family "knows" who they are going to meet at the airport.

I have also purchased breeding dogs from other breeders and it has gone very well, without knowing the breeders in person. BUT I have heard stories of people, as I said in the beginning of this thread, getting a puppy who didn't look ANYTHING like they expected when they picked up their pup in the cargo dept.

SO: there's no easy answer with internet sales, except TRUST AND VERIFY. Because not all "home raised" puppies are truly home raised....and not all "rescues" are true rescues.