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This platform is a public record. Breeders list their litters here, with prices. Nothing on the platform is for sale: nobody can buy a rank, a score or a search position, remove reviews they dislike, or be listed as verified without a moderator having read their documents.

A buyer meets a breeder, is shown certificates, pays, and takes an animal home. If the paperwork was incomplete, out of date, or simply invented, nothing reveals that at the time. It surfaces at nine months, or at three years, in a veterinary consulting room — by which point the animal is family, the money is gone, and the breeder has moved on to the next litter.

The market has no shortage of places to find a breeder. It has almost nowhere to find out what happened to the last forty people who bought one.

Every breeder carries two scores. The pre-sale score covers conduct while you are still a prospect: enquiries, visits, health disclosure, contract negotiation. The post-sale score covers what happens after the money clears: support, accountability, whether guarantees were honoured, how the animal actually turned out.

The headline satisfaction score is the mean of those two, and deliberately not an average of all reviews. Pre-sale reviews vastly outnumber post-sale ones — everybody reviews a charming enquiry process; only the unlucky are still writing two years later. A flat average therefore lets a good sales process bury a poor aftercare record, which is the precise failure this platform was built to correct.

Rankings use a rolling twelve-month window, so nobody coasts on a reputation from five years ago, and exclude breeders with fewer than three reviews in that window — a single five-star review can never top a table.

Reviews are held for a human to read before publishing when they:

• state a serious allegation as fact — fraud, forgery, abuse, neglect;
• contain links, email addresses or phone numbers;
• carry an extreme rating with almost no explanation;
• attach evidence to a serious post-sale complaint;
• contain threats or violent language.

That triage is rule-based rather than model-based, on purpose. When a breeder asks why their review was held, “it matched these two rules” is an answer that can be argued with. “The model disliked it” is not. Any automated second opinion sits behind those rules and can only recommend holding something — never publishing something the rules held.

We remove content that is:

• not a first-hand account by the person posting it;
• identifying of a private individual, or containing personal data;
• demonstrably fabricated — for example, a transaction that never occurred;
• harassment rather than an account of an experience.

Anonymous means anonymous, not just “no name shown.” Posting anonymously also drops any city you gave for context — a breeder holds their own customer list, and a city alongside a breed and a rough date is usually enough to work out exactly who wrote it. A country can stay; it rarely narrows things to one buyer. This is enforced when the review is submitted, not left for a moderator to catch afterwards.

We do not remove a review because it is unfavourable, because a breeder disputes it, or because a breeder threatens us. Breeders get a public right of reply on every review, shown directly beneath it. That is the remedy: answer it, in the open, where the same readers will see it.

A trust platform is worth exactly as much as the things it still refuses to sell. These are structural, not preferences:

• Rankings, search result ordering and satisfaction scores cannot be bought at any price. They are computed from reviews, and no payment of any kind changes where a breeder appears.
• Front-page promotion is not sold. Breeders cannot pay to appear more prominently, in any section, at any price.
• Advertising is always labelled as advertising, never styled to resemble a breeder listing, and never placed inside a score block or a review list.
• Advertisers and subscribers have no influence over scores, rankings, reviews or moderation outcomes.
• Claiming a page never changes a number. It grants a right of reply, document submission, and factual corrections — nothing else.
• Private evidence stays private. Veterinary reports and contracts default to moderators-only, and the breeder being reviewed never gets direct access to them.

The reference photographs in the breed directory come from Wikimedia Commons. Most are licensed CC BY or CC BY-SA, which require the photographer to be credited as a condition of use — so they are credited here, in full, with a link to each file. We ask breeders to honour the terms they agree to; the same applies to us.

These photographs illustrate a breed. None of them is a photograph of any listed breeder’s animals, and none appears on a breeder’s record.

The dog directory lists FCI’s own nomenclature by default. The breeds FCI does not recognise — shown when you switch to all breeds — were taken from Wikipedia’s list of dog breeds, read on 29 August 2026 and used under CC BY-SA 4.0, which requires attribution as a condition of use. That list covers breeds, varieties and types, so some of those entries are landraces rather than standardised breeds; the platform says only that FCI does not recognise them, never that they are recognised elsewhere.

The Portuguese cat breeders on this platform were transcribed from the public breeder directory of Clube Português de Felinicultura, Portugal’s FIFe member club, read on 17 August 2026. CPF’s directory is a form breeders fill in themselves: being listed evidences club membership and nothing else. It carries no health testing, no litter records and no complaint history, so no record built from it has a satisfaction score, and none of them has been verified by us.

The Spanish cat breeders come from the public breeder directory of Asociación Felina Española, read on 18 August 2026. ASFE’s bar is a little higher than a fill-in form — a cattery is listed only with paid-up membership and its litters registered with ASFE — but that still evidences membership, not health testing, and ASFE publishes no complaint history, so as with CPF these records carry no satisfaction score and none has been verified by us.

The dog breeder records come from Portuguese breed clubs, read on 18–19 August 2026. Portugal has no national dog breeder directory — Clube Português de Canicultura publishes none — so these records come from 8 of its affiliated per-breed clubs, each of which lists its own members:

• Retriever Clube de Portugal — 34 records
• Liga dos Criadores e Amigos do Cão da Serra da Estrela (LICRASE) — 23 records
• Clube do Podengo Português — 18 records
• Clube Português do Cão de São Bernardo — 16 records
• Associação Portuguesa do Cão da Serra da Estrela (APCSE) — 15 records
• Clube Português do Dogue de Bordéus (CPDDB) — 14 records
• Associação Dobermann de Portugal — 9 records
• Boxer Club de Portugal — 6 records

As with the cat directory, being on one of these lists evidences club membership, not health testing, litter records or a complaint history — so these records carry no satisfaction score and none has been verified by us.

Some registries do not permit this, and where that is written down we do not do it. Spain’s Real Sociedad Canina de España and Portugal’s Clube Português Epagneul Breton both prohibit reproducing their directories, so the 63 records we had built from them were removed on 27 August 2026. The Kennel Club, Germany’s VDH and France’s Société Centrale Canine prohibit it too, and were never read. So there is no Spanish national dog directory here. The Spanish kennels you will still find under dogs are members a Portuguese club published, and they are credited to that club — they are not Spain’s register, and their absence from it means nothing.

If any of these records is yours and something in it is wrong or you want it removed, claim the page and tell us. We argue that breeders should be held to the terms they agree to; republishing somebody’s details without a way to correct them would be the same failure pointed the other way.

Breed reference data on the breed pages — life span, weight, breed group, origin, temperament and description — comes from The Cat API and The Dog API. Registry status, hereditary risk panels and every satisfaction score are this platform’s own.

Life expectancy for dog breeds is taken from McMillan, K.M., Bielby, J., Williams, C.L., Upjohn, M.M., Casey, R.A. & Christley, R.M. (2024) Longevity of companion dog breeds: those at risk from early death. Scientific Reports 14, 531. — licensed CC BY 4.0. Cat figures are computed by this platform from Dataset: O'Neill, D. & Teng, K.T. (2024), Figshare, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.25006802, CC BY 4.0. which accompanies Teng, K.T., Brodbelt, D.C., Church, D.B. & O'Neill, D.G. (2024) Life tables of annual life expectancy and risk factors for mortality in cats in the United Kingdom. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 26(5). Both are measured in the United Kingdom, and neither is a prediction about an individual animal.

Site photography

• Sign in — wirestock via Magnific.com (Freepik Company, S.L.U.), Free for commercial use with attribution

Association and registry marks

• Governing Council of the Cat Fancy — Governing Council of the Cat Fancy — No licence held
• Fédération Internationale Féline — Fédération Internationale Féline — No licence held
• PawPeds G1 — PawPeds — No licence held
• PawPeds G2 — PawPeds — No licence held
• PawPeds G3 — PawPeds — No licence held
• PawPeds — PawPeds — No licence held
• The International Cat Association — The International Cat Association via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

A mark shown beside a breeder’s membership identifies the body they claim to belong to. It is not that body’s endorsement of the breeder, or of Breed Radar.

The marks above shown as holding no licence are used without permission from their owner. They identify the body, and we are seeking permission for each. Tell us if you own one and would rather it were not here.

Generated images

Some illustrative images on this site were generated with AI by the platform rather than photographed. None of them shows a real animal, and none is evidence of anything: no picture on a breeder’s record or an animal’s page is generated, and where a real photograph does not exist the platform shows a placeholder instead of inventing one.

• For breeders — the closing panel, “Comece pelo que já existe”
• Homepage — the breeder banner in “Join this community”
• Homepage — the owner banner in “Join this community”
• Homepage — the hero scenes and the species tiles
• The page-not-found illustration
• Homepage — the “perfect match” section

Breed reference photographs

• abyssinian — Karin Langner-Bahmann, CC BY-SA 3.0
• american bobtail — torbakhopper from San Francisco, CC BY 2.0
• american curl — Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0
• american shorthair — odin_aka_zero-one, CC BY-SA 3.0
• american wirehair — Heikki Siltala, CC BY 3.0
• australian mist — Regis2007, CC BY-SA 3.0
• balinese — Mary Desmond, CC BY-SA 3.0
• bengal — Lightburst, CC BY-SA 4.0
• birman — Valerius Geng, CC BY 3.0
• bombay — Pititebilette, CC BY-SA 3.0
• boxer — Mostafameraji, CC0
• british longhair — BritishEmpire, CC BY-SA 3.0
• british shorthair — BritishEmpire, CC BY-SA 3.0
• burmese — Heikkisiltala, CC BY 3.0
• burmilla — David Johnson, CC BY-SA 3.0
• chartreux — Heikki Siltala - catza.net, CC BY 3.0
• chausie — PiBeseth, CC0
• cherubim — Iris Preyler-Hamertinger, CC BY-SA 3.0
• cornish rex — Tomi Tapio K from Helsinki, Finland, CC BY 2.0
• cymric — Desaix83, d'après le travail d'Heikki Siltala, CC BY 3.0
• devon rex — Anna Belial, CC BY 4.0
• dobermann — No machine-readable author provided. Pleple2000 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
• dogue de bordeaux — Ingo W. Dühring, CC BY-SA 4.0
• donskoy — Nickolas Titkov from Moscow, Russian Federation, CC BY-SA 2.0
• egyptian mau — Madame Diana, CC BY-SA 4.0
• estrela mountain dog — gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K, CC BY 2.0
• exotic shorthair — Tcm1707, CC BY-SA 4.0
• flat coated retriever — Mennovic, CC BY-SA 3.0
• golden retriever — Martin håstrup, CC BY-SA 4.0
• highlander — DigitalDirt, CC BY-SA 4.0
• himalayan — Cindy See, CC BY-SA 2.0
• japanese bobtail — ようてい, CC BY-SA 3.0
• korat — Abujoy, CC BY-SA 3.0
• kurilian bobtail — TRUE KURILIANS, CC BY-SA 4.0
• labrador retriever — www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos, CC0
• laperm — Bebopscrx, CC BY-SA 3.0
• lykoi — steptacular, CC BY-SA 4.0
• maine coon — Unknown, CC BY-SA 4.0
• manx — Karen Weaver, CC BY 2.5
• minuet — William Parker, CC BY-SA 4.0
• munchkin — Sg0668commons, CC BY 3.0
• nebelung — Nebelung, CC BY-SA 3.0
• norwegian forest — Gangburgondes, CC BY-SA 3.0
• nova scotia duck tolling retriever — Naellenathan, CC BY-SA 4.0
• ocicat — Heikki Siltala - catza.net, CC BY 3.0
• oriental longhair — Daly69, CC BY-SA 3.0
• oriental shorthair — Daly69, CC BY-SA 3.0
• persian — The original uploader was Lajoma at Finnish Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0
• peterbald — Peterbald, Public domain
• pixiebob — Nathalie Bent, CC BY 2.5
• portuguese warren hound portuguese podengo — Jmasian, CC BY-SA 4.0
• ragdoll — Simone Johnsson, CC BY-SA 2.0
• russian blue — Anna Utekhina http://kidsphoto.ru/, CC BY-SA 3.0
• savannah — Jason Douglas, Public domain
• scottish fold — Heikki Siltala, CC BY 3.0
• scottish straight — Heikki Siltala, CC BY 3.0
• selkirk rex — Leinwand, CC BY-SA 3.0
• serengeti — Shandris at English Wikipedia, Public domain
• siamese — Meekahoo, CC BY-SA 3.0
• siberian — Floofymarshmallow, CC BY-SA 4.0
• singapura — Straits Singapuras, CC BY-SA 4.0
• snowshoe — Heikki Siltala, CC BY 3.0
• somali — Матвеева Ирина Владимировна, Public domain
• sphynx — Dmitry Makeev, CC BY-SA 4.0
• st bernard — PaterMcFly, CC BY 4.0
• thai — Talar, CC BY-SA 3.0
• tonkinese — Luigi Leahy, CC BY-SA 4.0
• toybob — Nickolas Titkov from Moscow, Russian Federation, CC BY-SA 2.0
• toyger — Heikki Siltala, CC BY 3.0
• turkish angora — Ankarakediler, CC BY 3.0
• turkish van — Matsu1024, CC BY-SA 4.0

A verification badge means a moderator read documents. It does not guarantee the health of any individual animal, and it is not an endorsement. Breed health information here is general and educational — it is not veterinary advice about your animal.

Reviews are the opinions and recollections of the people who wrote them. We publish them because owners need them, and we hold the serious ones for review first, but a review is not a finding of fact and this site does not present it as one.

Absence of complaints is not evidence of good practice. A breeder with no reviews is an unknown, not a safe bet.