Buying Puppies On PuppySpot.com

Buying a puppy online from a puppy broker website like PuppySpot.com does not sound good, and it isn’t. We do not endorse websites like Puppy Spot that list thousands of puppies for sale online each year. In addition to the outrageous prices, they charge for puppies born in USDA commercial dog farms, we do not recommend buying puppies from USDA breeders ever.

There are too many risks to buying puppies online. Dogs live for 15 plus years and it is important to see firsthand where it was born. Meet the mother dog and the puppy in person before you buy. Make sure the breeder is not a puppy mill.

Never buy a puppy from a picture. Pick your puppy up in person, meet the mother dog, see her mental and physical condition. She should be clean, happy and well adjusted. If they want to ship the puppy to you, meet you halfway in a parking lot and won’t let you see where all of their dogs live, those are red flags.

If they won’t give you breeder information before you buy the puppy, that is a red flag.

It is not safe to buy any dog online, nor do we suggest having the puppy shipped to you by air nanny or even meeting the breeder halfway or in a parking lot. PuppySpot.com has many options to direct ship the puppy to you. This is a huge red flag to us. There is no excuse as to why you should be able to see where your puppy was born and see the condition of the mother dog and where all of the dogs live.

In fact, we have communications from PuppySpot.com that explains that they do not normally give you breeder information until your puppy has been delivered to you. Another huge red flag. If you are not able to pick up the puppy in person, meet the mother dog and where she and all of the breeder’s dogs live, you might be supporting a puppy mill.

Responsible breeders are proud of how they raise their dogs. Don’t except any excuses why you can’t meet the mother dog or see where and how she lives.

Puppy Spot states on their website that they use USDA licensed dog breeders which is a red flag to start. USDA dog breeders are high volume commercial puppy farmers. They can legally keep their breeding dogs stacked in wire cages in dark barns. The standards of care for breeding dogs in USDA kennels are very low.

Lastly, we have communication from PuppySpot.com that says they will not let you know your puppy’s breeder information until your puppy has been delivered.

Puppy mills are any dog breeder that puts profit over the health and well-being of the breeding dogs and puppies they produced and own. These kind of breeders vary in size from small breeders — ten to twenty dogs — to very large breeders that have hundreds of breeding dogs packed in pole barns. Puppy mills are legal.

Puppy mills keep the mother and father dogs pregnant and sell the puppies. The breeding dogs are forced to breed twice a year or at every heat cycle and they are usually kept in wire cages, many times stacked.

The breeding dogs are not groomed, they are not given opportunity to exercise nor do they know the touch of a loving hand. The biggest tragedy is the dogs are denied veterinary care and most are living and breeding with painful conditions such as urinary tract infections, ear infections, rotten teeth, infected eyes, tumors, infected mammary glands and sore feet from standing on wire cage floors — that never get addressed.

It is important to know that any breeder can be a puppy mill. It’s hard to imagine the breeder you are talking or texting with could be a puppy mill. If the breeder has excuses why they won’t let you see where they keep the breeding dogs or you are not able to meet the mother dog in person, we suggest you find another breeder.