I purchased a "Mini-bulldog" from DawnMarie who was selling hte dog on behalf of Evan Quintavella from the bulldog exchange. I received the puppy at 8 weeks of age 10 HOURS after the expected flight time. Evan or someone from his kennel made the puppy miss his flight and the poor puppy was re-routed from FL to TX to NJ a total of 10 hours flight time. The poor puppy wsa in his crate without the appropriate amount of food and water for 10 hours straight. When he did arrive we immediaetly took him to the vet the next morning (we did have an appt for that night at 7pm but the pup didn't arrive until midnight). The vet dianosed him with coccidia, ear mites, ear infection and worms. Now I ask you, they claim on their contract that the dogs are examined THE DAY BEFORE they are shipped, how is it humanly possible that the vet missed coccidia, worms, ear mites AND an ear infection??? How is it possible he didn't see these things prior to shipping the puppy? Something is seriously fishy with this issue and again remains un-addressed. I immediately informed Dawn who submitted the vet billls to Evan and to date I have not recieved reimbursement for hte treatment.
Furthermore, he was diagnosed with entropian (the inverting of the eyelids) and he has had two sets of staples put in as well as surgery scheduled within the next few months to repair this HEREDITARY problem. The cost is a whopping $1500 per eye.
Additionally, this bully is certainly no where near miniature, according to all their sites a standard male weighs between 20-40lbs, WELL my bulldog at 9 months of age weighs 65 lbs!!! This is NOT miniature, not even the small end of a regular bulldog. Had I wanted a regular bulldog I would have bought one, instead I have an enormous dog who at 9 months is obviously still growing. Who knows how much larger he'll be!!!
I have emailed and called Evan several times to no avail. I just want responses as to why my bulldog is so large and where my reimbursment is. ALso I wanted to discuss the entropian with him.
I have emailed the following:
4/4/07- per contract email DawnMarie to inform her of the vets finding of ear mites, ear infection and worms.
4/23/07- asking DawnMarie status of reimbursement
4/26/07- asking DM status of reimb, email her informing her of coccidia as well and reimbursement for meds
5/16/07- email to MBCOA re: all these issues and lack of reimbursement (recieve a note back with "we'll take care of it" no reply since)
9/4/07- another email to MBCOA
9/7/07- Letter sent directly to MBCOA listing these complaints
9/10/07-10/23- various calls w/DM and vms w/EQ. DM said she told EQ to call me, to date no call, EQ hasn't returned VM either.
I'm not looking for anything other than explanations.
BUYER BEWARE, you are NOT getting mini-bulldogs off this guy, nor are you getting the picture of health w/these dogs as he claims. It is PURE false advertising to say these dogs grow no more than 40lbs, meanwhile my puppy is 65 lbs and not even fully matured yet.
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