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. 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 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. Cleveland Heights Municipal Court records also list five traffic cases under his name in 2002 and 2016. 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.
