The man lied to me. He provided me with a physical address, I checked it out and it was in an area with land, later I found out it was his uncles address. When I sold and shipped the dog to him it was to a CHICAGO address When it came time to mail his AKC papers to him I wanted to verify the address, then he slipped up and sent me an address in a high rise apartment in Philly. I questioned him and he said he had gotten transferred and now lived in Philly. What could I do at that point? His references he procvided checked out, so I went with it.
Once you sell a dog and they have it, there is not much you can do. I would email him almost monthly to get updates on the dog and he never answered me. I tired calling and calls were not returned.
Finally when he decided the dog was too much for him and once more he was moving this time to Michigan he wanted to give the dog back to me.
Let me add. Breeders do the best we can to place our dogs in good loving forever homes, but any breeder, whether the best on Earth or not, can't always tell what the buyer is really like. People lie, they fake records, give references of friends to lie for them and say they only have one or two dogs to find out they have a lot more. We do the best we can to provide our dogs with good homes. AND it is written in my contract that ALL dogs are to be returned to me, not to a kennel or shelter or sold. THAT IS WHY when a puppy leaves here, they are MICROCHIPPED IN MY NAME, my name, my address and my phone number. So if anyone goes in with one of my dogs to a shelter, they will scan them and call me, same goes for a sale or a dog, if it is scanned I come back as the owner which will make any vet or individual question why this dog is registered to Bleu Moon Kennels in MS. I have had four calls where the dogs were lost and they called me, and I provided them with the new owners name and address and phone. The dogs were reunited with the proper owners.
In all my years of breeding I have had only two dogs returned to me. And to this day I know where all my dogs are, it is in the contract also to provide me with moving and forwarding addresses, not that all follow it, but 99 percent do, except for this person who got caught anyway.
Hope this answers your question.