Arlees French Bulldogs
reviews and complaints

Lily is wonderful. She is kind and thoughtful. She helped me grieve and process the loss of my frenchie who passed at almost 12 years old. That was a year and a half ago. We stayed in touch, and when my other frenchie passed away, she was there for me again. She cares and is not a mill. I would be absolutely frightened to have placed a frenchie with such an angry and bitter person. She made the right decision not to place one of her puppies with the professor. I hope if he ever got one that he treats it with love, care and respect.

I adopted a Frenchie puppy from Lily in April 2018. Our interactions were just what I expected from a reputable breeder. I am involved in two breed rescues so I expected a breeder to qualify me as a potential home for a puppy. Lily was extremely professional and took the time to make sure that we were the right fit for a dog and answered all my questions about the history of her breeding line. After we took our puppy home, Lily stayed connected on a regular basis to make sure everyone was settling in. I have zero hesitation working with Lily again or recommending her to any interested Frenchie parents who might not want to explore Frenchie rescue.

I am happy to verify my education credentials. Unfortunately, this is an attack from a college professor. Sad...
This is the proof that I place my puppies very carefully. I don't sell just to anybody. What kind of home that will be, if I sold a puppy to that person? The college professor who is engaged in this personal attack.

The person's real name who posted the complaint is Tony Clerc, who is a college professor of the College of the Desert. I have responded to his questions with the prompt answers. The conversation did not even go to the point of the deposit and etc. I was told that we will come and pick up the puppy. However, the process does not work that way, because I first get to know the potential puppy parent. Have conversations with them. Furthermore, I was accused of not having the puppy and being the scam artist. Unfortunately, those accusations came from that person who never saw me, never spoke to me. I never took any deposits from that person. I never promised to sell a puppy. That was just a mere inquiry. However, the puppy got reserved by the people whom I had a previous contact with. As soon as I received a deposit, I informed Mr. Clerc that the puppy has been reserved. I have offered a different puppy, as a courtesy to him. He originally was looking for a lower priced puppy and a different color puppy. Unfortunately, certain people do not take "no" for an answer. I have a process which people go thru in order to adopt the puppy from me. I will be happy to forward the emails to whom ever is interested in the communication between me and Mr. Clerc regarding this matter. I took my time and answered every email he sent to me in the appropriate fashion. Those emails are available upon request. They consist of threats, accusations from the person whom I never met or spoke with. Thankfully, this web site allows posting the responses. Therefore, I took the opportunity to do that.
Sincerely,
Lily

This lady “Lily” likes to play games, I’m very close from calling her a scam artist. When she responded to my inquiry with what exactly I was looking for I told her my expected price, gender, color etc. She responded that she had one exactly fitting my criteria but had others (different color etc) at 4000. For the next 7 hours I emailed her questions about the puppy himself, whether it liked dogs cats, kids etc, housebroken to which she replied extremely vaguely, to which I found odd. I was always very polite and cordial with her. Her replies were always one worded and vague. She said she didn’t have a current picture of the puppy (which is odd for a breeder selling puppies) but sent me a video of very poor quality of a 2 black Frenchies playing. When I told her I was serious about it and would like to see him and potentially pick him up this weekend, she replied back (within 30 minutes) by telling me that someone has just made a deposit on the dog therefore he was no longer available - HOWEVER, in the same email told me she had other puppies for sale for $4000. She totally gave me the run around, this is typical of scam artists. They lure you in with an enticing offer then at the last minute when the transaction is about to get serious they pull out and tell you they have others that are better at a greater price. We were extremely disappointed with the entire dialogue with her, she knew exactly what she was doing and from some of the other reviews online, it seems I am not the only “victim” of her shady methods. If she employs shady selling techniques who knows how good her puppy raising technique is….Trust me on this, having a fancy website doesn’t mean you have a quality product and know what you’re doing. From me to you: STAY FAR AWAY!

I've been an avid frenchie owner for six years and we wanted to add another one to our family. Frenchies are special creatures and they need a caring, loving, attentive, and loving home. We researched breeders for months and found that Arlees is an exceptional breeder who truly loves each of her dogs and treats all of them like her fur babies. I think what I loved the most about her is she interviews each of her potential buyers to make sure her frenchies will be going to an exceptional home. My feeling is that you most likely weren't a good fit and Arlees is ethnic, so I doubt that she was discriminating against you.