[LJack]

Good evening, folks! Thought I’d chime in here. We purchased a golden retriever puppy from True2Gold a few years ago, and full transparency love our dog to death and he is truly such a prince.

BUT do I have some things to share… admittedly I was over eager to find a pup as my previous breeder fell through and I certainly didn’t do the proper research which is why I so appreciate this forum calling for some accountability here as the website is meant to dupe people just like me. Dan repeatedly told all buyers that T2G has a cancer free guarantee which is nothing but empty promises turns out.

We picked out pup at 4 weeks and our dog had become severely overweight by the time we brought him home at 8 weeks. We were concerned and at his first vet check up brought up his stride as he had always run kind of funny and wobbled and sure enough he had major hip issues, and when I reached out to Dan he declined anything more than 5% of the financial coverage of these procedures (JPS), obviously insurance wouldn’t cover it as they deemed it a preexisting condition which you would think falls on the breeder. Anyway, we never ended up getting that procedure. This added severe stress to our lives as we were navigating life with our first dog, and the breeder did nothing but try to convince us that the veterinarians were being way too cautious and we’re just trying to make money off us.

Two years later, we noticed a lump on our dogs hind leg magically while petting him and took him in to be seen by the vet. our vet agreed that the lump was concerning took a few cell samples and let us know that he had a pretty significant mass cell tumor at the age of two. In the end, we decided to get the tumor removed, which was obviously covered by insurance, but reached out to Dan to let him know that our puppy had a tumor at the age of two as we thought he might wanna know before he started breeding more dogs from the dam and sire we used, but instead, he never responded to our text and went on to ghost us for the next several months.

To this day, we still have received no acknowledgment of our dogs diagnosis of having a mass cell tumor and no retraction of the cancer free promise on the website. Kinda shady.

Sorry to jump in late here, but thought that was context that we needed to add about the credibility of this breeder.

Our dog has been lucky enough to live a very healthy life since that cancer diagnosis and is truly the light of our life I wouldn’t trade him for the world, but he has lived a very difficult life for a young dog all of which could’ve been avoided had the breeder taken the appropriate medical and safety precautions that most other breeders take. I would never go back to this breeder to purchase another dog after the way we were led on, and then ghosted in our time of struggle.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

 

[SDGoldens]

Good evening, folks! Thought I’d chime in here. We purchased a golden retriever puppy from True2Gold a few years ago, and full transparency love our dog to death and he is truly such a prince.

BUT do I have some things to share… admittedly I was over eager to find a pup as my previous breeder fell through and I certainly didn’t do the proper research which is why I so appreciate this forum calling for some accountability here as the website is meant to dupe people just like me. Dan repeatedly told all buyers that T2G has a cancer free guarantee which is nothing but empty promises turns out.

We picked out pup at 4 weeks and our dog had become severely overweight by the time we brought him home at 8 weeks. We were concerned and at his first vet check up brought up his stride as he had always run kind of funny and wobbled and sure enough he had major hip issues, and when I reached out to Dan he declined anything more than 5% of the financial coverage of these procedures (JPS), obviously insurance wouldn’t cover it as they deemed it a preexisting condition which you would think falls on the breeder. Anyway, we never ended up getting that procedure. This added severe stress to our lives as we were navigating life with our first dog, and the breeder did nothing but try to convince us that the veterinarians were being way too cautious and we’re just trying to make money off us.

Two years later, we noticed a lump on our dogs hind leg magically while petting him and took him in to be seen by the vet. our vet agreed that the lump was concerning took a few cell samples and let us know that he had a pretty significant mass cell tumor at the age of two. In the end, we decided to get the tumor removed, which was obviously covered by insurance, but reached out to Dan to let him know that our puppy had a tumor at the age of two as we thought he might wanna know before he started breeding more dogs from the dam and sire we used, but instead, he never responded to our text and went on to ghost us for the next several months.

To this day, we still have received no acknowledgment of our dogs diagnosis of having a mass cell tumor and no retraction of the cancer free promise on the website. Kinda shady.

Sorry to jump in late here, but thought that was context that we needed to add about the credibility of this breeder.

Our dog has been lucky enough to live a very healthy life since that cancer diagnosis and is truly the light of our life I wouldn’t trade him for the world, but he has lived a very difficult life for a young dog all of which could’ve been avoided had the breeder taken the appropriate medical and safety precautions that most other breeders take. I would never go back to this breeder to purchase another dog after the way we were led on, and then ghosted in our time of struggle.

Thanks for sharing your experience. No breeder can guarantee a cancer free dog. This is a shady and unethical breeder who preys on uninformed buyers. I remember seeing True2Gold a while back when we were looking and their “cancer-free” claim was an immediate red flag.

 

[JoyFamily]

We (True2gold) are not claiming 100% cancer free lines. However our data is exactly what we have tracked over the last decade. That’s not anecdotal tales! The best data is post-application, not DNA tests before breeding. Predictability is valuable but NOT as valid as the results after the testing! And many if not most Golden Retriever breeders do not track cancer rates. Cancer rates are embarrassing to most breeders. So bad in fact, that’s why my wife and I started our breeding program back in 2011 after losing our 8 year old hero to cancer.

Fortunately, True to Gold goes all the way back a decade and we contact our puppy/dog owners on an annual basis. Statistics with real numbers are the best scientific proof of anti-cancer success. That’s the opposite of such cynical charges. Vet DNA tests for predictions don’t match reality or evidence of empirical scientific outcomes and so far, in eleven years of breeding, only 2 cancer deaths out of 300 dogs have been reported confirming a < .075 mortality rate. That’s not to mention that True2gold has a 100% success rate on all puppies - meaning ZERO cases of Parvo, Hepatitis or Distemper in all eleven years we have been breeding Goldens.

You can add at least one more cancer death to your "statistics", my girl who we purchased from True2Gold in 2014 died of cancer this week. She was 10 years old and she died from soft tissue sarcoma that spread to her lungs. She suffered for 4 months before she went to heaven, and our hearts are shattered.

True2Gold did contact us before, but definitely not annually, so I am very dubious about your "statistics".

How many of the 300 dogs that you contacted are at the cancer prone ages? Do you cast a wide age net and use that to your advantage? I can easily contact 300 young puppies and my cancer free rate will be 100%. And did you successfully contact everyone of these 300 dogs every year? Because it was 8 years ago when I last picked up your phone (FYI I stopped answering your call because you kept trying to sell me puppies), my girl was 3 years old then and cancer free, so I hope your success rate did not include my girl.

My girl also had persistent UTI due to recessed vulva as a puppy, she also had hip arthritis.

Would I buy another puppy from True2Gold? No way in hell. Because True2Gold is a puppy mill.

 

[njdglvr]

To JoyFamily. I’m so sorry for the loss of your well loved sweet girl!

 

[starr92]

Good evening, folks! Thought I’d chime in here. We purchased a golden retriever puppy from True2Gold a few years ago, and full transparency love our dog to death and he is truly such a prince.

BUT do I have some things to share… admittedly I was over eager to find a pup as my previous breeder fell through and I certainly didn’t do the proper research which is why I so appreciate this forum calling for some accountability here as the website is meant to dupe people just like me. Dan repeatedly told all buyers that T2G has a cancer free guarantee which is nothing but empty promises turns out.

We picked out pup at 4 weeks and our dog had become severely overweight by the time we brought him home at 8 weeks. We were concerned and at his first vet check up brought up his stride as he had always run kind of funny and wobbled and sure enough he had major hip issues, and when I reached out to Dan he declined anything more than 5% of the financial coverage of these procedures (JPS), obviously insurance wouldn’t cover it as they deemed it a preexisting condition which you would think falls on the breeder. Anyway, we never ended up getting that procedure. This added severe stress to our lives as we were navigating life with our first dog, and the breeder did nothing but try to convince us that the veterinarians were being way too cautious and we’re just trying to make money off us.

Two years later, we noticed a lump on our dogs hind leg magically while petting him and took him in to be seen by the vet. our vet agreed that the lump was concerning took a few cell samples and let us know that he had a pretty significant mass cell tumor at the age of two. In the end, we decided to get the tumor removed, which was obviously covered by insurance, but reached out to Dan to let him know that our puppy had a tumor at the age of two as we thought he might wanna know before he started breeding more dogs from the dam and sire we used, but instead, he never responded to our text and went on to ghost us for the next several months.

To this day, we still have received no acknowledgment of our dogs diagnosis of having a mass cell tumor and no retraction of the cancer free promise on the website. Kinda shady.

Sorry to jump in late here, but thought that was context that we needed to add about the credibility of this breeder.

Our dog has been lucky enough to live a very healthy life since that cancer diagnosis and is truly the light of our life I wouldn’t trade him for the world, but he has lived a very difficult life for a young dog all of which could’ve been avoided had the breeder taken the appropriate medical and safety precautions that most other breeders take. I would never go back to this breeder to purchase another dog after the way we were led on, and then ghosted in our time of struggle.

Hey! Can we get in contact somehow? I have some questions.