I purchased a female 4 month old boxer over the internet from a breeder in Texas.
I picked her up from the airport and found her to be thin and lethargic. Upon arrival home, she immediately had bouts of diarrhea.By the evening, she could barely stand and could only sleep. At about 4:30 am, she began vomiting, continuing this every 15-20 mins for the next several hours. At 8:00 am, she was diagnosed with parvo and I was advised to rush her to a specific 24 hour veterinary clinic as she was "crashing" and in need of immediate care. That particular clinic would only treat her if I paid $2500.in advance for any medical procedures to help her. Six days later, my vet bill was up to $3800. And climbing.
I removed her from the facility as I had reached my financial limit and contacted Ms. Bartlett for assistance with the costs incurred from her sending me a seriously ill puppy.
She claimed that it was perfectly fine when she sent the puppy and that she must have picked up the parvo her in California, as she stepped off of the plane. She continued to say that she was in serious financial straights and was unable to help me and that she would "do what she could". So far, she paid me less than half of what I had paid for the puppy only.
She admitted to sending me a sick puppy in a letter to an employee of the Better Business Bureau after writing in the majority of her letter that the puppy must have picked up parvo here in California.
Later, Ms. Bartlett writes to an employee for the California Attorney General's Office that she has never had parvo in her kennel and that she had nothing to do with the puppy ever having this disease.
After contacting the US Consumer Protection Agency, Ms. Bartlett continues to say that she is in desperate finacial need as, the same parvo that struck my puppy, has all but wiped out litters of puppies in her kennel. Because of this, she is unable to make her house payments and may possibly lose her house. All the while, her website shows puppy after puppy being sold for extremely high prices-prices that a show dog would sell for.
Beware of this person, as she will sell any kind of puppy in any condition and then refuse to take it back or reimburse for the funds due to the loss of the animal. This is someone who is not to be trusted!
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