We purchased a newfoundland puppy for 1600 dollars, he had a bad case of mange. For Those of you that dont know what that is it is a parasitic infestation in the skin. He was bleeding from his legs and he was crying all day. We immediately took him to the vet and he said this puppy has had mange. He also said this is something he had for a wile and not something new. At this point we only had him for two days. The vet gave him a shot and told us we had to come back 3 more times for him to fully cure our puppy. Along with the shots we were instructed to bath him regularly in a special shampoo for at least one month. Our new puppy was miserable itchy and bleeding for the first month we had him (poor dog).
The dog being sick was one problem the other problem was that the "Breeder" had now become unreachable. Several Emails were sent but no response. Whats weird is that the whole time we were in contact about purchasing the dog she was very easy to get in touch with.
Our vet instructed us to get checked for mange ourselves because humans can get it. So on top of the 300 dollar vet bill we now had to pay our doctor to check us out. So between doctors and medicine we had now spent over 400 dollars on this mange problem.
If when we contacted her she had said sorry and maybe had some explaination we would have felt alot better. My dog is ok now and we love him but I would not suggest buying anything from her she still has not got back to us even after we had our vet send her a letter explaining the problem and the cost.
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