California family that sold sick Labradoodle puppies defrauded pet buyers

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Huntington Beach newlyweds Brittany and Brandon Swigart believed in 2019 that they had to that point completed their fledgling family when they spotted Winnie, a brown mini Labradoodle, in a Craigslist ad and took delivery of the tiny puppy after handing over more than $1,000 cash in a West Covina parking lot. “We knew we couldn’t afford to have a child, so this was the next best thing,” Brandon said in an interview. “This is what our life was going to look like,” Brittany added: “We were going to be dog people, we would go to dog parks, we were...