I have finally decided to come forward and tell the whole tale of my little Sadie's breeder and all the "red flags" I should have seen but didn't truely understand until it was too late.
The breeders name is Marvin Greer or Linda Greer, they operate
Greenwood Kennels in Joplin, MO.
They breed yorkies, maltese, morkie, bolognese, goldendoodles and more!
I never looked at their kennels, but some pictures make me believe they put the puppies in x-pens on dirty rugs in their garage floor. The breeder strips the pups from the mother at 5 weeks old and puts the mom back outside in the bitches kennel and seperates the pups for sale. He said he has 11 bitches and several males.
When I started to learn a little more about breeders and began to ask some of the questions that YTers were suggesting he go defensive and told me if I did not trust him then I did not have to get a pup from him. He was upset that I had so many questions and wanted to see more photos of the kennel area and their home. He brought the pup to me in Kearny, MO near where I lived in Liberty. His daughter worked as a vet tech in that area for awhile and I was supposed to trust him more because of that and I did meet him once before Sadie came to me and saw a Morkie puppy and another pet owner and her dog that she got from him. I still should have known better.
His wife brought the puppy to me at Mcdonalds on the first Friday in August. She was tiny, she was cute, and I already fell in love with her. I took her home after paying for her and took her to the vet later in the day. She got a clean bill of health and luckily no parasites. She was 7.5 weeks old. She was registered APRI if I wanted to do so. I never gave a dime to that registry. She had a few dewormers and no shots given at my request. My vet did all her shots and spay.
At ten months of age Sadie was running up a pup step to my bed and fell backwards and when she got up she was limping. She was diagnosed with grade 3 luxating patella. Remembering something on the Greenwood website about a one year health guarantee I emailed Linda. She told me that if surgery were needed they would have to have their vet look over the dog before they would do any reembursement. At that point I knew who I was really dealing with and let it go. About 4-5 $60 chiropractic treatments later Sadie was recovered from her limp and hasn't had any issues since. One day it will likely slip again and she will have to through a $1400 surgery to repair the lux. She is only one and half years old now. She has been sick several times with stomach problems, she is very very unstable, she cannot ride in the car without panicking, she has trouble around people, noise, laughter, new situations and more. She bites and plays with her mouth on our hands too much. She is going into puppy prep school for all her behavioral problems. I firmly believe many of these would have been avoided if she came from a more stable breeder and had been socialized with the breeder and her puppy siblings.
I DO NOT recommend this breeder, and will not buy another dog from him ever. Nice he may be, but he will turn his back on the health of his dogs and he breeds too many different breeds and mixes them for money. He doesn't truely care about the dogs even though he will act all sweet and try to convince you he loves the puppies and only does this to make people happy with the puppies he gives them.
He told me a story about giving a lady TWO puppies that was a truck driver and how she had lost and/or let two pups die and yet again he was going to replace the lost puppy to her. He likes to sell to truck drivers. How can a truck driver properly care for and potty train a baby dog????
So many red flags and I can't believe I didn't see. Maybe I did start to see the truth but by then I didn't want baby Sadie stripped from her mama and left to her own devices. I did buy into a BYB and I regret ever supporting his business.
Please please do your research and don't support these breeders. Pick a breeder that wants to always be there, backs their puppies up for life, and cares enough about their pups to make sure they are perfect examples of the breed in physical apperance and most importantly health. Don't make my mistake and don't support Greenwood Kennels.