Exotic Boerboels
Exotic Boerboels (also marketed as "Exotic Boerboel Breeder International") is operated by Jordan Pittman in Cleveland, OH, with a business address at 12205 Superior Ave [9][10]. According to the kennel's website, Pittman has been breeding "since 2006" with "20+ years" of experience [5]; D&B records the operating sole proprietorship Boerboel Breeders Ohio with a start date of 2009-09-02 [3]. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas court records show Pittman as defendant in four closed criminal cases between 2002 and 2025: a 2002 indictment for criminal simulation and possessing criminal tools that was routed to a pretrial-diversion program when he was 20, a 2017 carrying-concealed-weapons indictment to which he pled guilty on an amended lesser-included offense, a 2021 drug-trafficking and drug-possession indictment to which he pled guilty on amended lesser-included offenses after sixteen pretrial settings, and a March 2025 indictment on two counts of strangulation, one count of domestic violence, and one count of endangering children that was dismissed at the final pretrial in July 2025 [11]. Cleveland Heights Municipal Court records also list five traffic cases under his name in 2002 and 2016 [14]. The kennel maintains an AKC Marketplace listing [8] and a Google Business profile rated 4.7 with 100 reviews [10], but a per-reviewer audit of all 100 reviews found that 31 of 85 five-star reviews are stars-only with no text and a single time bucket four years ago contains 26 unanimously five-star reviews of which 81 percent come from thin-profile reviewers; zero of the 100 reviews include attached photos [10]. The BBB profile is not accredited and carries a complaint alleging an undisclosed inheritable umbilical hernia in a sold puppy plus a subsequent dispute over agreed refunds and vet payments, with the buyer's vet stating the hernia was genetic and inheritable [1][2]; a substantive Google two-star review independently describes a $12,000 emergency vet visit for anaphylaxis, hip and knee swelling, and a throat lump in a two-year-old kennel-bred puppy [10]. The kennel operates as an unregistered Ohio sole proprietorship (no Secretary of State entity registration) [12] and holds no USDA APHIS Animal Welfare Act license [13]. Buyers should request, in writing and before any deposit: registry membership confirmation (NABBA or SABBS, with a member number a buyer can independently verify), OFA or PennHIP results for both parents, a written health guarantee covering inheritable conditions, and a current AKC Foundation Stock Service registration number for the dam and sire.