how do you actually vet a dog breeder beyond the nice website, we lost a 500 dollar deposit to a scam in march, the standard poodle breeders weve found since range from 1200 to 4500 dollars and all use words like champion bloodlines and vet checked that apparently mean nothing, so what paperwork do i demand, how do i verify it instead of taking their word, and is a two year waitlist a quality signal or just gatekeeping
after a year of research we landed on a standard poodle, my daughter has mild allergies and after three visits with a friends standard who is basically a philosophy professor in a dog suit, the whole...