Stronghold K9, LLC Stronghold K-Nine Backyard breeder with unethical business practices Cincinnati, Ohio Internet

We purchased a Belgain Malinois puppy from this breeder for $1320.  The first week home w/ the puppy it was evident that his aggression was well beyond typical puppy play/biting.  He continually attacked our older dog making her bleed, our kittens, a friend and myself.  He was a beautiful puppy but we were clearly not the right family for him.  It broke my hear, but we contacted the breeder and explained our situation and asked if he would consider taking the puppy back and finding him a suitable home with one of the other customers they were working with.  He agreed and stated that he would refund our money, minus $100 for boarding the puppy until he could be shipped to the new owner in Georgia.  We returned the pup off on June 27th with food and some of his favorite toys and was told we would be contacted early the next week to arrange the refund and signing the AKC papers over to them.  Nearly a month later, we have still not received our money and the breeder is insisting that we hand over ownership papers before they will pay us.  We keep getting put off - twice they've responded via text saying they are out of town and will get with us at a later date and then we never hear from them.  Our calls go unreturned.  In written correspondence (email/text), we have offered to make the exchange in person - a money order/cashier's check in exchange for the signed papers - but they refuse and insist we mail the papers, signed over to them, before they will pay us.  They have since sold the dog to someone else and hence have received nearly $3000 for this one puppy.  I'm not sure how the new owner will receive the papers, we are happy to initiate the transfer, but cannot until we receive the money owed us.  When we received the AKC papers in the mail after the purchase, the papers state that we cannot register any of the offspring of this dog.  We didn't purchase him with the intent of breeding but had no idea that this restriction was part of the sale.  Completely secondary to the whole fiasco but I would think not every buyer of an expensive breed would assume this restriction would be placed on them as part of the sale/transfer.  When I asked the breeder about this, they indicated that this is the restriction they put on the sale (without discussing it with us) and that only they could approve breeding him and register any offspring.  Again, we were only interested in a family pet that would be loyal and protective, as this breed is known for, but it clearly seems like an additional misleading this breeder is simply ok with. Unethical business practices.