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Written after reading twenty-three live breeder sites
The pages breeders keep not writing.
Price, the waitlist, health testing, the FAQ. The pages every buyer looks for and almost nobody has finished. We read twenty-three live breeder sites one page at a time to find out which ones go missing.
What we found on twenty-three breeder sites
Twenty-three independent cat and dog breeder sites, found the way a buyer finds them, read on 28 August 2026. Every one is named in the free download, so none of this has to be taken on trust.
| What a buyer is looking for | Sites that had it | |
|---|---|---|
| A contract you can read before you commit | 3 of 23 | |
| The breeder’s full name anywhere on the site | 2 of 23 | |
| Testimonials or references | 4 of 23 | |
| Health test results, not the claim | 5 of 23 | |
| A FAQ page or section | 7 of 23 | |
| An application form | 8 of 23 | |
| Availability updated within three months | 8 of 23 | |
| A price you can read | 11 of 23 | |
| The waitlist explained in writing | 14 of 23 |
Half of them publish a price and most explain the waitlist, so the market has moved on those. What almost nobody does is tell you who you're buying from, show you the contract before you commit, or put a test result on the page instead of the phrase health tested.
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The whole audit, free
Every one of the twenty-three sites named with its web address, what each one was missing, and the five things to fix this week in the order to fix them. No email, no sign-up, nothing to install.
Fifteen things buyers look for
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A PDF you can read on a phone or print. It's the same reading the table above came from, with the working shown.
Why we went and looked
We build websites for breeders, which means we have watched the same thing happen more than once. The design gets signed off quickly. Then the project sits, because writing the words is the part nobody wants to do.
So before writing a word of anybody's site, we went and read what breeders already have. The table above is what came back. It is also the reason we know which pages to build first.
Questions
How were the twenty-three sites chosen?
They were found the way a buyer finds them, by searching for the things buyers type, and every one was fetched and read on 28 August 2026. Marketplaces, directories and registry pages were left out, because they aren't a breeder's own site. Where something was unclear it was recorded as unclear and never counted as a yes.
Cats or dogs?
Both. Eleven cat breeders and twelve dog breeders.
Can I see which sites they were?
Yes. All twenty-three are named with their web addresses in the free download, so none of this has to be taken on trust.
Is there a score?
No, and there won't be. We ran our own tool against the same site more than once and didn't get the same answer twice, so a score would be a number we can't reproduce. So this site publishes findings and never a score.
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