What do you know about the breeder?
1. Is she/he experienced? Do they have litters on a regular basis, but not so many that you would worry about the possiblity of she/he being a puppy mill.
2. Is she/he a backyard breeder? I purchased a puppy from a backyard breeder and she died an awful death before her second birthday.
3. Did the breeder do all the necessary genetic testing?
4. Is the breeder well known in the area for good healty puppies?
5. What type of pedigree do the puppies have? Do they have a solid linage, with AKC Champions in their past. I don't know if you want a puppy for showing or not, but my experience is that if you go to a show breeder that the quality of the puppy and it's health is increased.
6. It looks like you live in the mid-west, but out here in the Pacific NW and surounding areas, there is a line of puppies that I would stay away from. My first spoo was from this line and she died an awfull sudden death. I was talking to a breeder out of Montana and she also had a spoo die a sudden death from this same line. Breeders in the area have told me that they shy away from the line. You might talk with local breeders and ask them to look at the pedigree to see if there is any "red flags" in the breeding.
7. How much are these puppies? Is the price to good to be true? I purchased my first puppy because the price was "right". This decision cost me in the long run. I paid over $9k trying to save her life.
8. Have you done your research? I thought I had done my research when I bought my first spoo and realized later that I didn't do enough.
Good luck... Just because I have had one bad experience, I, myself, would probably not get a puppy from this litter, just because of the fact that 2/3's of the puppies were still born and something could be wrong. But I am probably a little more cautious than the average person.
Take care and do your research. I