ABOUT US
We're California natives who've lived in Los Angeles County since birth.
All counties in California require businesses to obtain a business operating license before doing business in the county. This requirement applies to all businesses, including one-person, home-based operations. Many cities require a business license in addition to the county license.
California businesses must have a seller's permit if they; Are engaged in the business of selling dogs, cats, or other animals which are considered nonfood animals in California.
Individuals selling domestic pets are required by code to first obtain a Breeder permit from Animal Services.
In California each household may only have four (4) dogs or cats over the age of four months. If you have five (5) or more you are required to obtain a special permit. The number of animals vary by jurisdiction.
All counties in California require businesses to obtain a business operating license before doing business in the county. This requirement applies to all businesses, including one-person, home-based operations. Many cities require a business license in addition to the county license.
- We have a county license issued from the state of California and the County of Los Angeles. We're not required to have a license from the city.
California businesses must have a seller's permit if they; Are engaged in the business of selling dogs, cats, or other animals which are considered nonfood animals in California.
- We have a California seller's permit.
Individuals selling domestic pets are required by code to first obtain a Breeder permit from Animal Services.
- We're licensed to breed and sell dogs by Animal Services. We're also inspected by Animal Services yearly and have the top tier inspection grade ("A").
In California each household may only have four (4) dogs or cats over the age of four months. If you have five (5) or more you are required to obtain a special permit. The number of animals vary by jurisdiction.
- We don't have 50 dogs, but we're licensed to have up to 50 dogs if we wanted to have that many.
LICENSING INFO
To make sure the person or place you're adopting a puppy from is legitimate, they must have a valid animal license issued by the county they're conducting business in. They must also have proof of passing inspection preferably with an "A" inspection grade. If they don't then it means you're getting SCAMMED, because it's against the law to breed and or sell animals or even to adopt out rescue animals without having a license and passing yearly inspections. When in doubt you can verify information with the county or the Department of Animal Services (aka "Animal Care & Control"). For example all of our information; our name, address, phone, license and our inspection grade can all be verified on the Los Angeles County Animal Care & Control website or by calling them directly.
PUPPY MILLS & PUPPY MILL BROKERS
Unfortunatley the internet is inundated with high volume commercial breeders aka puppy mills and their brokers aka puppy mill brokers. When you search for a "Goldendoodle" on Google the first page is flooded with paid advertisements promoting broker websites. Most of them sell THOUSANDS of puppies a year and can afford the best advertising, the best website designers, the best sales people to talk to customers, and the best marketing strategists who can burry bad reviews and replace them with good ones. Some websites even pay for fake reviews. There's brokers that sell so many puppies they can afford to own their own private planes to deliver puppies to customers. One broker website states they've placed over 220,000 puppies into over 220,000 homes.
Puppy mill puppies aren't just in other states like most people in California assume. There's plenty of puppy mill puppies being sold right here in California. In fact the majority of so called "breeders" in California are actually selling puppies they've obtained from out of state puppy mills. Some so called breeders do some breeding themselves and also supplement with puppies they purchase from puppy mills to meet supply and demand since they can't have more than 4 breeding dogs (max allowed without a kennel license). These type of breeders are known for lying to customers by not discolsing where the puppies came from. They pretend to have bred them themselves by showing customers their dogs and saying their dogs are the puppy's parents. There's also so called breeders who lie and say the puppy's parents live in guardian homes, but the "guardian homes" are actually out of state puppy mills. Then there's the sellers aka puppy mill brokers who admit they're not breeders, but they lie and tell customers they only deal with small breeders not high volume commercial breeders, local breeders, breeders they have close relations with, breeders they've personally vetted themselves and so on. They mislead customers on purpose (they lie), because they know if they tell customers the truth about what type of breeders they get puppies from the majority of people wouldn't buy the puppies. There's also puppy mills that are able to deceive customers with fake orcastrated back drops. It's the same concept as using a movie set. It's not reality. It's what they want you to believe by creating a fake enviornment to use for facetime, videos and photos. This is why choosing a puppy in person is very important. So is meeting the puppy's parents in person and seeing where the puppy was born and raised in person. These should all be mandatory when buying a puppy if you don't want to find yourself complicit in animal suffering by having purchased a puppy who came from a puppy mill.
It's extremely difficult to obtain a permit to own more than 4 adult dogs in the state of California, so when you see someone advertising more than one litter of puppies, having puppies often, or selling different breeds of puppies, you should ask them where are all of the puppies parents located? Are they claiming to use guardian homes? If so then are you able to go to the guardian homes and see for yourself the conditions where the pups were born and raised? Are you able to meet the pup's parents in person? Do they insist on meeting you some where or delivering the pup to you? Are you not allowed to meet the pup until it turns 8 weeks old? Are they using excuses like they need to protect the pups from catching parvovirus so you can't go around them until they're 8 weeks old? These are all RED FLAGS that you should watch out for!
The non profit organization StopOnlinePuppyMills.org is dedicated to ending online puppy mills through educating and advocacy. Other great resources of information are Humane Society's Horrible 100 List and BailingOutBenji.com
If theres a breeder who does own the puppy's parents, but they don't have all the proper licenses and permits to breed and sell puppies, then they're putting the dogs at risk. If they get caught they'll be shut down and fined. The dogs would get seized and taken to a local animal shelter where they could get euthanized. If they were in it for the LOVE of the animals they wouldn't put them in harms way. It doesn't matter how "nice" or how "honest" they might seem, their actions speak louder than words! Not to mention the fact that illegal breeders infrindge on legitimate breeders who are the ones paying taxes and fees which contribute to the community.
Puppy mill puppies aren't just in other states like most people in California assume. There's plenty of puppy mill puppies being sold right here in California. In fact the majority of so called "breeders" in California are actually selling puppies they've obtained from out of state puppy mills. Some so called breeders do some breeding themselves and also supplement with puppies they purchase from puppy mills to meet supply and demand since they can't have more than 4 breeding dogs (max allowed without a kennel license). These type of breeders are known for lying to customers by not discolsing where the puppies came from. They pretend to have bred them themselves by showing customers their dogs and saying their dogs are the puppy's parents. There's also so called breeders who lie and say the puppy's parents live in guardian homes, but the "guardian homes" are actually out of state puppy mills. Then there's the sellers aka puppy mill brokers who admit they're not breeders, but they lie and tell customers they only deal with small breeders not high volume commercial breeders, local breeders, breeders they have close relations with, breeders they've personally vetted themselves and so on. They mislead customers on purpose (they lie), because they know if they tell customers the truth about what type of breeders they get puppies from the majority of people wouldn't buy the puppies. There's also puppy mills that are able to deceive customers with fake orcastrated back drops. It's the same concept as using a movie set. It's not reality. It's what they want you to believe by creating a fake enviornment to use for facetime, videos and photos. This is why choosing a puppy in person is very important. So is meeting the puppy's parents in person and seeing where the puppy was born and raised in person. These should all be mandatory when buying a puppy if you don't want to find yourself complicit in animal suffering by having purchased a puppy who came from a puppy mill.
It's extremely difficult to obtain a permit to own more than 4 adult dogs in the state of California, so when you see someone advertising more than one litter of puppies, having puppies often, or selling different breeds of puppies, you should ask them where are all of the puppies parents located? Are they claiming to use guardian homes? If so then are you able to go to the guardian homes and see for yourself the conditions where the pups were born and raised? Are you able to meet the pup's parents in person? Do they insist on meeting you some where or delivering the pup to you? Are you not allowed to meet the pup until it turns 8 weeks old? Are they using excuses like they need to protect the pups from catching parvovirus so you can't go around them until they're 8 weeks old? These are all RED FLAGS that you should watch out for!
The non profit organization StopOnlinePuppyMills.org is dedicated to ending online puppy mills through educating and advocacy. Other great resources of information are Humane Society's Horrible 100 List and BailingOutBenji.com
If theres a breeder who does own the puppy's parents, but they don't have all the proper licenses and permits to breed and sell puppies, then they're putting the dogs at risk. If they get caught they'll be shut down and fined. The dogs would get seized and taken to a local animal shelter where they could get euthanized. If they were in it for the LOVE of the animals they wouldn't put them in harms way. It doesn't matter how "nice" or how "honest" they might seem, their actions speak louder than words! Not to mention the fact that illegal breeders infrindge on legitimate breeders who are the ones paying taxes and fees which contribute to the community.