SW, GBBA and Members of GBBA are glorified puppymillers looking for BIG BUCKS from buyers who believe the BS and slander posted on their sites about American Breeders. Every affiliate of SW and GBBA has the same wording on all their websites and are CONTROLLED by Rick and the free bulldogs to celebrities is nothing more than an advertising hype to build his reputation (all companies do it or doesn't anybody pay attention to commercials with celebrities, see a celebrity using and selling the product, you run to buy it because if they have one, it must be okay). Believe what you will, but anyone charging $5000 and over for puppies and/or adult do - better be selling you a puppy and/or adult dog that will beat every bulldog in the AKC show rings, and produce a slew of champion get. You better be getting a complete puppy and/or dog care kit with all the supplies you'd need for that dog for that price. You should also be getting a written guarantee, money back if what he sells you does not pan out to be what HE PROMISED it would be.
As for genetics -- he better be producing bulldogs whose life spans surpass those being produced by knowledgeable breeders, and they better live to over 15 years of age or longer and have absolutely no health problems. He best have the documentation to prove it too. Also, IS HE A GENETICIST because I always thought you needed a degree to make that proclamation. Well does he have one?
His site states in big bold letters "Breeders of Champions" to make this statement one would have to picture those champions for all to see (or produced written proof of same), I see none on his site or those of his affiliate members of the GBBA. None of the bulldogs pictured on any of those sites have their pedigrees posted and quite a few have small heads and fly away ears. Also if the BCA and AKC illustrated standards are so bad, then why is he using them, if he's the genetics expert as he claims to be, shouldn't he have illustrations drawn up of his genetically engineered bulldogs? Come on - if someone states this crap wouldn't you want to see their degree of expertise and training, where's the picture of his degrees? Rick is not who he makes himself out to be, a puppymiller is a puppymiller and its a business no matter how fancy the wording is or the so called facts HE states are and in great length (he provides nothing written, no scientific evidence from scientists or well known experts, no pedigrees, NOTHING). EXACTLY what Rick has established for himself and his followers, is a profitable business and many are buying his sales pitches and BS he feeds to them - he's the cult leader of puppymillers. Everything is written to convince people he's the man to see to get a PERFECT bulldog. First off, there is NO PERFECT BULLDOG, never will be, however, there are bulldogs who are very close. Anybody pitching they have the perfect bulldog to you is full of it.
Using photographs that are copyrighted is a crime - there are COPYRIGHT LAWS which makes him using a photograph taken by a professional photographer NOT employed by him to take the picture for HIS PERSONAL USE illegal. He is using it for the purposes of selling HIS puppies by advertising pups that were NOT produced by him as his pups from his breeding program is ILLEGAL, ITS FALSE ADVERTISING AND AN ACT OF FRAUD. It doesn't take much to right click on a photo and copy it if its posted by the owner of the photograph on a discussion forum which is where I'm sure he got it or an affiliate member of his.
As for giving to St. Jude's, that's a charitable contribution made by a LLC and filed on their tax returns, so he got that back. Again, all corporate entities do this, its a tax write off as well as the free bulldogs he gives to celebrities. In essence he gets it back - he's a business. NO AMERICAN BREEDER OPERATES AS AN INC., LLC, L.P., OR ANY OTHER CORPORATE ENTITY. My free bulldogs go to children with disabilities, two are with children who have autism (I've gotten nothing back and cannot claim them as a write off because I'm not a business and not in it to make the money Rick and his affiliates make). If Rick is so wonderful, then why not help kids who want a dog why does he have to give to celebrities. BECAUSE ITS FREE ADVERTISING AND BRAGGING FOR HIM, how commendable is that.
Just beware, be careful, and always read between the lines. The world is full of people who can sell ice cubes to Eskimos. Sign nothing and never give someone all your money without first getting the paperwork necessary for that puppy and/or dog, never buy without seeing what you are getting, AND NEVER LET SOMEONE TELL YOU ANY DIFFERENT. Any respectable breeder has no problem providing you everything you need to know what you're buying and has no problems showing the parents and they have no problems replacing and/or reimbursing you for health problems. Any respectable breeder would make time for you, as new owners you are important to our dog's lives. |
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