You wouldn’t be looking them up online if you didn’t think of them as adorable – the Havanese dog, among the toy dog breeds, is one of a kind. Their small but not too small to be an “accessory” dog, they’re very affectionate without trying your patience, their disposition is partly what dog show veterans want them, and that they hardly shed is why many pet owners praise them for. Because of a rise in the demand for this breed, it probably is not surprising why there’s an attendant rise in the number of dishonest Havanese Breeders lately.
If you’re buying from a breeder, meeting up with them is like showing up at a salesman’s pitch – you try to be skeptical, you hold on to your questions, and you don’t buy everything said and shown. It’s not going to be easy spotting the dishonest ones – even if you ask to be shown where the breeder keeps his breeding dogs and newly born pups, for all you know that might have been cleaned up just for show. The dishonest breeder might even put on the airs of an honest breeder you have to work hard to convince of your capacity to take care of Havanese puppies.
What you need to do is to find out which breeding clubs or circles he is a member of, because when that info is provided you can do the online and by phone research to check his background – having references is key. The reason for this pre-meeting investigation is that, upon meeting the breeder, presenting forged certifications and membership documents may not be a problem for him. So you really need to check his references before you meet up. The bad news? He could be working with others, and the references he provides you might be his confederates.
Don’t relax yet, the bad news doesn’t stop there. In perfect mime of standard practices of legitimate Havanese Breeders, corrupt ones will also provide you with documentation pertaining to the breeding history, registration, and medical records of the dog or dogs, but only after you buy them. By the time you figure out that the documents have been forged, you paid for the dog’s, which may not be bred to be healthy – meaning they may have hereditary conditions. You could of course ask the breeder, during the meeting, if you can run the documents against an online database, but it’s unlikely he’d agree to that – of course if he doesn’t, that’s a sign he’s a dishonest one.
If you could persuade the breeder to show you the papers so you can verify them via friends to call or via the Internet through a smartphone, that would be great. If the breeder refuses, and pressures you to bite on the price or haggles for a lower one, please walk away. There are probably hundreds of people already conned by faux breeders, and you can probably read about their stories online if you search for them, so you can be forewarned.
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