2nd Complaint Against:
Breeder: Linda Pisani
Cattery: TopCattery
Address: 2830 Highridge Road
City: La Crecenta, Ca. 91214
Phone: 818-541-9100
Complaintant: Name has been withheld
Date: Sat Jun 16 8:11 am (PST)
I am new to the list and I find a need to make breeders aware of a situation I am involved in... I purchased a kitten from Linda of Topcattery of California, where she guarranted me in writing that the male pursian that I was interested in buying was PKD negative...
After sending all monies to Linda she informed me that she would not send my paperwork on my purchased kitten until additional monies be sent her to cover misfigured airline expense (on Lindas part)... I had already paid her the asking price plus all air fare expenses she had requested, but she held my paperwork on my kitten until I paid her an additional charge.
I intern received this kitten, who is a beautiful blue tabby male, sent in to Gribbles, as I always do, to have his PKD testing done, only to be shocked to find out that he is positive.
I contacted Topcattery, requesting again, a copy of this boys parents PKD papers of which to this day I have yet to receive. She advised me to sell him, and not make the buyer aware of his PKD positive results, I could not do this with a clear concience as I strongly do not agree with that type of breeders tactics.
Linda found a buyer for this kitten, but she deliberatly misled the buyer about the PKD results, as she did me... Now she is advertising him on her site, as available for sale, under the Available Adults link on her homepage... She is advertising this cat as his parents being negative.
I went so far as to have him retested a second time thru UC Davis Laboratory, and the results were the same...
At first she appeared to be surprised as to this turn of events, and offered to work with me to resolve the problem, I do not want another kitten from her cattery as I feel she is deceitful to her clients... I still have this cat in my cattery and he is registered to me, and the only solution is to get my money back, but according to Linda, money is not available for refund... Even though she put in writing that I could have my money back, as she knew I did not want any positive kittens.
I am willing to work with her on this, but when she posted this boy on her site again that his parents are PKD negative, and is asking more that I paid for him, this just goes against my principles. If she has done this to me, how many others has this been done too.
Linda told the interested buyer from New York that I had to part with him for personal reasons, that was completely a lie, as I have a cattery that I am building new... And will only breed PKD negative kittens. She sold this cat to me, and if I would have bred him without testing him first, and taken her at only her word... I would have had positive kittens with my first litter on the ground and my reputation would have been ruined before I even got started.
She was aware up front of my opinions on this issue and sold him to me deliberatly as a neg cat when indeed she new he was not... His father is positive.
Thank you for your time in reading this... I hope I have helped someone else from making the same mistake that I did by dealing with Topcattery.
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