#134, are you serious? Tons of dogs are stolen every single day and sold by people who claim to be "moving" or using any other reason to get some money for them. This dog could've been from a breeder or a pet store, but obviously if the OP was willing to pay that much for it, so are other people. The dog very well could have been stolen, but hopefully it will end up with a family with some intelligence and compassion, which it obviously wasn't getting before.

Go with a mutt next time, they're great and you can get them for almost free.

maybe youll find it in the pound ^^ just being positive

guess somebody's gonna do the right thing and ADOPT...your bought dog. that really does suck though.

Why so expensive? I see purebred retrievers for like a third of that price, at most.

Your fault for paying for a stupidly expensive dog, when you could have gotten one from the pound. Puppy mills suck (& they overcharge)!

Aaaaand that's why you get dogs from the pound, rather than puppy mill.

I'm assuming the dog was stolen, since puppy's generally aren't strong enough to break fences.

Let me get this straight. You have wanted a dog your entire life and spent $1400 to get just the kind you wanted....and then you immediately left it in the back yard and went to flipping lunch?! You don't leave your pet in the back yard. Trained or untrained. New or old. It's not safe. It could be stolen, hurt, killed, ANYTHING. You supervise it the same way you'd supervise a child. I have always adopted my dogs, but get a purebred if you want. Just actually take care of it. Because, if you aren't even going to bother to spend one full day with it before you just leave it in the back yard, you shouldn't own a pet. End of story.

you think someone might have stole it?