Mr. Paul Savage:

In addition to the Veripet system, which we are all aware of now, we do not publish advertisements until the dogs are seven weeks old. Legally, as long as a dog is microchipped and registered, one can advertise it, but one cannot sell it until it is eight weeks old. We hold those advertisements back to decrease the likelihood that a person will sell a dog before eight weeks. We actively block bad actors on our system. In the last 12 months, we have probably blocked 700 bad credit cards from people who we do not want to use our website. The public never gets to see the advertisements that we block because of this safeguard that is in place. We have added a field to indicate whether a seller is a registered seller of pets, and we explain what that is.