Taylor Made Working Dogs

Be forewarned. The following is a description of our experience with Taylor Made Working dogs. Individual experiences may vary, but this was ours. Please use this information to make your own decision on whether to engage in business with them. We initially reached out to Taylor Made to inquire about a female puppy. We asked a lot of questions about their dogs and their breeding/weening/socialization procedures. They asked no questions of us to verify that we were a good home for one of their dogs. They described their policy as: “We start by putting you on a waitlist for your litter of choice with updates along the way, when puppies are born and on the ground at 2 weeks of age we go down the waitlist and allow the people on the list 24 hours to place a $500 deposit to continue holding their puppy/spot. If they fail to do so we go to the next person on the list.” We were delighted to be told that we were being placed on the waitlist and that we were number one on the list for a female from their EE litter and would have the first pick of any females. We marked the calendar for the likely birthdate and anxiously awaited their birth. On April 5th the litter of 8 puppies was born. We were so excited and immediately marked our calendar for the 2 week deposit date. We followed and liked every picture that they posted on social media and commented when we felt it was appropriate. At 6 days of age Liz even texted us a few pictures of one of the females. We were EXCITED! However, we were confused as to why 3 of the puppies were no longer being mentioned (one female), we assumed the worst and did not want to question Liz as this might have been a sore subject. On April 19th, (the 2 week point) we sent an email asking if they were ready for our deposit. They finally responded on the 20th and accepted our deposit. We thought at this point, there would be some discussion about which of the 2 remaining girls we would like to select, knowing full well that temperament testing would occur at 6 weeks and that this particular puppy might not be a match to our home. Instead, we were given pictures of the smallest puppy in the litter. When we asked about the other female that was clearly thriving, we were told that someone else had already reserved her. We were very confused by this. Weren’t we first on the list? Didn’t we reach out to them to make the deposit? When we asked for clarification, we were informed that the pictures that she sent at 6 days old, was our opportunity to pick out a puppy and that they didn’t think we were interested. Please keep in mind that only pictures were sent, nothing in writing about, this being a solicitation to confirm interest in a puppy. Our response to such text (which was sent immediately) was simply “I LOVE THEM!!” and “Thanks for sharing, Liz!” and no further texts were received from Taylor Made asking us to confirm that we were still interested in a puppy or wanted to pick one. Why would we think that we needed to do more, when their policy said this occurs at 2 weeks? We were very upset, but tried to rally and rebuild the lost trust by asking Liz about the health and current development of the remaining female. Unfortunately, the response we received had nothing to do with the health of the puppy that we were being offered, but was more of a complaint that if we had to ask these questions, then we would never be happy with the pup. Now, let me once again clarify that we were never asked about our home or the life that we would provide for the puppy. And now, suddenly, we were being accused of being an unfit home for this puppy because of Taylor Made’s inability to abide by their own policy (or even acknowledge their error) and our desire to simply know the state of its health. To their credit, they did refund our deposit. This is clearly not a business that we want to work with. Again, this is just one person’s experience. Please exercise caution.

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