We got a puppy from Jindo Ranch last year and he showed signs of aggression just one week after we…read moregot him at 10 weeks old. I was viciously bitten and notified Mr. Chong of the Jindo Ranch about it. He told me it was my fault and that I wasn't handling him right. I believed him at the time because I believe most incidents with dogs are due to human handling error. Also, because the dog was only 10 weeks old, my wife and I decided to put all our efforts into training him and raising him right. We enrolled him in puppy classes and later on with professional trainers to train him to be obedient. We succeeded at raising an extremely obedient dog, but the aggression and extreme fearfulness never went away and has only gotten worse. Our adult dog has bitten my wife viciously two times and sent her to the hospital. He has bitten me one additional time. There was a level of mental instability that we noticed in our Jindo early on but figured it must have just been a puppy thing and that he will grow out of it. Again, it has only gotten worse. For example, we would cough and that would put him into his fearful state and he would run to the corner and start urinating. This is a weekly occurrence, he's now one and a half years old.
We have been very loving and in tune to our dog's needs. He goes on 4 walks a day, and we make sure to let roam freely off-leash at least once a week at dog parks, the beach, or on hiking trails. We feed him only premium dog food since puppyhood. He's fully up to date on all vaccinations. We take him on family trips, brush him twice a week, and bath him once a month. Yet none of this has helped to curb the aggression and fearfulness. Every time we had an incident, we blamed ourselves. It's gotten to the point where we've had to put him on anti-anxiety medication prescribed by our vet, who told us point blank that we should put him down. That was heartbreaking to hear and I did not want to do that, so we are trying the anxiety medicine.
Both our vet and our trainers have told us that dogs that come from poor breeding will have aggression and fearful characteristics. Good breeders will cull out the aggressive or extremely fearful puppies. Jindo Ranch does NOT do this at all, instead choosing to sell any and all puppies they have. This isn't to say that all his dogs are aggressive or fearful. I'm sure he has nice dogs too, which was what initially attracted us. However, a breeder who continues to non-selectively breed aggressive and fearful dogs are a recipe for disaster for the ultimate dog owners while Mr. Chong walks away with the cash and plausible deniability that the dogs grew to be aggressive due to owner mistreatment. This is what he's doing to us, gaslighting and blaming us. I should have been more skeptical when he only accepted cash and advertised a website that had nothing to do with dogs at all. The way someone does anything is often the way they do everything, and the shady way he handles business is also the shady way he breeds his dogs.
I reached out to Mr. Chong from the Jindo Ranch and sent him the photos of all the bites from our dog. I have also told him several times that our dog seems mentally unstable. I finally told him that we believe our dog was poorly bred, and that we would like a refund because we will have to give him up. He gave me all sorts of excuses, including that his wife had recently died. It's sad if it's true, but why bring that into the discussion at all? Then he said he could not return my money right away, but will do so in 1 week. I took his word for it, but it has now been 2 weeks and he has not returned any of my calls or text messages. I went on the Jindo Ranch facebook page to leave a review of my experience with him along with several photos of the dog bites, and instead of returning my calls when he saw that, he instead chose to "Like" my bloody photos. This is the type of person you're dealing with. One that will say anything to make a sale and then blame you and ignore you when things go awry. It has been an incredibly distressing year where we tried everything to raise our dog right and blamed ourselves for our own suffering. People have gotten nice dogs from Jindo Ranch, and I truly envy those people. But others have also gotten human- and animal-aggressive dogs from Jindo Ranch. It's a gamble when getting a dog from Jindo Ranch, and when you lose, it is painful and heartbreaking. I wish I had known this before, but I hope my experience will help future buyers become more aware.
