My room mate & i purchased an 800.00 miniature pincher puppy. We purchased from a puppy store against our better judgement because they claimed to be a christian store & said their breeders are local and owners who have a stake in the business.
We later found out in paperwork that our puppy was from OKLAHOMA. Hardly TAMPA, FLA. OR even Florida for that matter. Both statements turned out to be lies.
The puppy we bought had flaky skin so we inquired before purchase as to what was wrong with her skin. We were assured the puppy had been seen by a doctor & it was nothing. Also they said they had 1000.00 dollars insurance on their puppies just in case.
Their ads also guarantee akc registration, which is certainly a selling point as far as i'm concerned. We purcased the puppy on their (so-called) christian word. "Big mistake".
The puppies you purchase have to be seen by your vet within 72 hrs, so we took her in and per skin scraping were notified that she has a genetic form of mange that carries through the bloodline. So breeding her is out of the question "that is if you're a reputable breeder or store-which obviously they are not!
We had her treated every 2 wks for approx. 2 mnths, which was pointless because with this type of mange the problem comes right back every time the puppy gets stressed. Some of the bills were paid, some were not covered.
As an added bonus the breeder "the puppy shoppe" dealt with refused to pay akc fees evidently, so guess what? Our 800.00 puppy/mutt is not registerable with akc. We might as well have bought a puppy from somebodys back yard for 400.00 less. We made over 30.00 worth of long distance calls to their akc person who was to straighten out the problem.
They tried to stick us with some stupid registration grp i've never even heard of. Why would we pay for that?
They claim that in small print at the bottom of our contract there was a claus that if akc won't accept their dogs, they'll find some other registry. Not what they advertise in the newspaper! And i have yet to find that little treasure of a comment/claus. I spoke with the local manager & was treated with complete contemp. She said i did'nt have to buy the dog it was choice!
I spoke with another manager Lee/long distance of course! She promised a 50.00 gift certificate for all our trouble (to put it lightly). Of course the gift certificate never transpired (shock of all shocks). I called lee again on 2 more occasions to tell her the gift certificate never arrived. THEY JUST KEPT LYING & SAYING IT WAS MAILED.
I also wrote to her because i got tired of the long distance expense. "no response of course. If these are so-called christians-MAY GOD PROTECT THE REST OF US FROM PEOPLE LIKE THEM! Please please learn from our mistakes! -THIS COMPANY HAS 3 LOCAL LOCATIONS.
Tamarra
tampa florida
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