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WARNING WARNING WARNING

PUPPYFIND.COM AND THEIR AFFILIATES ARE AWARE THAT THE MAJORITY OF THERE PUPPY SELLERS ARE OVERSEAS PUPPY MILLS.

THEIR CLIENT AT LAZY A FARMS IS SENDING OUT PICTURES OF MY DOGS AS BEING THE PARENTS OF THE POODLE PUPPIES THEY SELL.

THE LATEST FRAUD SCAM ON THEIR SITE IS BEING DONE BY Nikki Brattin CALLING HER BUSINESS AS LAZY A FARMS. HER PHONE NUMBER IS 417-342-3388 HER IP ADDRESS IS 72.14.70.32 One of her email addresses lazyafarms@leru.net

PUPPYFIND.COM DOES NOT ASK FOR ANY OTHER INFORMATION FROM THEIR SELLERS OTHER THAN A EMAIL ADDRESS AND SOME MONEY.
THEY ALSO OWN THE ISP THAT THEY ARE DOING BUSINESS ON WITH THE FRAUDULENT SELLERS.

PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU INTEND TO BUY A DOG FROM A BREEDER THAT IS LISTED ON PUPPYFIND.COM
ALSO IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT LISTING WITH THEM YOU MAY WANT TO CONSIDER YOUR REPUTATION.

IF YOU HAVE BEEN SCAMMED AT THIS SITE OR KNOW OF SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN SCAMMED PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT THE PAWS ORGANIZATION OR MYSELF.

Puppyfind.com is an online service which takes a financial cut for connecting puppy sellers with people that want to buy dogs. Their homepage says “1,000s of Puppies for Sale… Shipped nationwide!” If that doesn’t make you wonder about their service, then you will when you learn that they don’t even pre-qualify the people or dogs who post to their site. They only review a poster or dog if there have been complaints. Technically this isn’t against that law, but if you ask us, we think it’s awfully disrespectful to the dogs to treat them as cargo and the buyers to not pre-qualify the sellers before letting them use their service. It is well documented there is a GIANT problem of unethical breeding of dogs and this service, by not pre-qualifiying the people they work with, is, we think, a big mistake.

We spoke with Puppyfind.com in the past and they justified their practice by claiming “well, so may people post dogs a day we couldn’t possibly pre-review them.” I don’t think I need to say what we think is wrong with that. Especially now that they’ve been in business for a couple years they should be improving their quality control, not standing by old excuses.

Recently there has been a rash of tiny breeds posted to puppyfind by a scammer pretending they are for sale. Thanks for everyone to writing in to them. We have let them know how we feel about this too. My gut feeling is that this was all the work of one desperate, nefarious person who thinks that some how people will fall for their pathetic scam. When anything happens out of the blue to this degree it’s almost always just one person or people working together. Puppyfind will eventually ban this user (or users) and they will slink away. So I do not expect some continuing photo theft as this one person will realize how stupid they were and it will stop.

As far as I know, when this happens, Puppyfind, chooses not to press criminal charges, which I also think I don’t need to state how we feel, even though they have clear proof of attempted scams.

I do know Thumbelins's is for the love of dog. I can only imagine what Puppyfind is for the love of.

In the future if you see or hear of misappropriated photos being used to sell dogs on PuppyFind please contact them immediately with as much proof and evidence as you have. In the end they are motivated to remove false entries and the more people they hear from the more likely they are to do it sooner than later. It is our wish they will reconsider their policies of letting people post puppies until they hear of a problem and take a more proactive stance in ensuring the validity of the poster and ethical quality of the breeders they work with. (I am recieving comments from my visitors and they are posted below)

Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by richard (postmaster@teacuppoodles.us) on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 12:49:57 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- country: USA comments:

hi,to who it may concern i recently purchased a rott pup from puppy find.com and the pup i purchused was taken off then in about a month she was put back on it with a another birthdate email address,to prove this it is the same picture of a little girl holding the same puppy she is in same clothes and a picture that is suppost to be her mom and dad which are in the same position wearing the same collars is listed on a another puppy find.com breeder selling another puppy younger then the one i bought. I just do not no how one female dog can have more then one litter in 4months time --------------------------------------------------------------------------- REMOTE_ADDR: 68.76.167.39 HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Hi I know you don't know me but I been watching your website for about a year, I been on it enough to recognize you poodles, anyway I was on puppyfind.com looking for a new female poodle, and I came across and add for a female teacup poodle for sale that i was interested in well , I contacted them to find out more about her and they sent me pictures of what they said was her parents well right away I recognized them from your web site, so I thought I better let you know about this,
I apologize if this was an add you approved of or new about but it seemed like a scam to me because of the location difference so I thought you should know about it.
anyway her is a link to the add on puppyfind and here are the pictures they sent me,

Taunya

http://www.puppyfind.com/view_listing/?sid=d761253bb4d85b9763205c1cd143e564&list_id=w74ac5jed8&back=%2Ffor_sale%2F%3Fbreed_id%3D174%26country%3D%26state%3D%26page%3D19%26order_by%3Dlist_date%26back%3D%252Fbrowse%252F%253Fstr%253Dt%2526page%253D1

p.s. the pictures is as the told me mom dad and daughter. This is the Puppy they said was the puppy of these

BEWARE OF Nikki Brattin CALLING HER BUSINESS AS LAZY A FARMS. HER PHONE NUMBER IS 417-342-3388 HER IP ADDRESS IS 72.14.70.32 One of her email addresses lazyafarms@leru.net

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