Exotic Boerboels
Exotic Boerboels (also marketed as "Exotic Boerboel Breeder International") is operated by Jordan Pittman in Cleveland, OH. According to the kennel's website, Pittman has been breeding "since 2006" with "20+ years" of experience; D&B records the operating sole proprietorship Boerboel Breeders Ohio with a start date of 2009-09-02. Cuyahoga County court records dated April 25, 2026 listed four closed criminal cases under Jordan Pittman's name: the 2025 indictment was recorded as dismissed on July 28, 2025; the 2017 and 2021 cases were recorded as guilty pleas to amended lesser-included offenses, whose exact final offenses and sentences are not confirmed in the cited material; and the 2002 case was recorded as referred to pretrial diversion, with no final disposition confirmed beyond its closed status. The original charges are not stated here as offenses of conviction. The kennel maintains an AKC Marketplace listing and a Google Business profile rated 4.7 with 100 reviews, 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. 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; 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. The kennel operates as an unregistered Ohio sole proprietorship (no Secretary of State entity registration) and holds no USDA APHIS Animal Welfare Act license.
