Goodbye (not so) Good Dog

A couple of weeks ago I decided to quit with Good Dog. What is Good Dog you may ask? Well, Good Dog is a platform for breeders and potential puppy buyers.
They provide tons of information like courses how to become a breeder, but also they help with setting up standard contracts, communication with puppy buyers, etc, etc.


A good thing you might think. But I don't think so because they need to have some kind of business model, which I completely understand, they have some 'money driven' services that I just can't live with. The most annoying imo is the one where you can become a so called 'preferred' breeder when one of your puppy buyers pays through their paying system. So not because you are a good breeder, but bc they've earned some money bc you asked your puppy buyer to use their payment system.


Another reason I stopped was, and this I find even worse, is that when looking for a Berger Blanc Suisse aka White Swiss Shepherd breeder there are also White German Shepherd breeders listed. Breeders that pretend to breed WSS are allowed by Good Dog to sell puppies as if they are WSS aka Berger Blanc Suisse. Even though according to GD they ' screen every member of our community for qualityand make their practices transparent'. Again it's all about the money and again puppy buyers are victim of platforms like this.


I can't express too often that you really have to do your homework and make sure that the breeder is legit. Only listed on a platform like Good Dog (or FB for that matter) doesn't do it for me.