Jan 9, 2010
need everyone's help!!!!
Any information you have, I need! My personal email is listed below, please contact me ASAP with any info. This guy is a PUPPY MILL and we need to get his address!!!
PLEASE READ: Email address at the bottom!!!!
I purchased a dog from Puppyofmydreams.com about 3 years ago, I was living in Ottawa, he was located in Quebec City and as a naive 19 year old who wanted a Maltese, purchased after receiving a few testimonial responses and without further question. I received my pup and she was healthy, happy and I fell in love. Just over the Christmas holiday, my boyfriend and I decided to get our little one a little sister..Of course due to the fact that we're so happy with our little girl now, we went right back to the breeder we got her from. I found it funny that he was now living in Winchester...just 30 minutes from Ottawa...I figured this was great. We set up a time to meet (Again, it didn’t cross my mind that he wouldn't allow us to go to the facilities - he gives a fake story that all his puppies are "fostered" out to families so that they are trained and raised in a family environment) and I provided him with a deposit. We picked up our pup December 26th. She was very timid, but obviously on a first day in a new home, I thought it may just be considering the situation. She ate a bit that night, slept on the floor and was, what we originally thought, a very well trained pup! We named her and made her feel like our home was her home. We put her to bed and she slept the whole night. I was so pleased with her when I woke up, I took her downstairs and she did her business on the puppy pads, so well trained. We played for a bit, cuddled and since we are crate training, we put her back in her bed for an hour or so. When we went to get her to take her out again, my boyfriend noticed that she had some stuff coming out of her nose. I panicked! I opened the front of her cage, she didn't wage her tail or playfully put her paws out to come play...she just laid there. We took her out of her cage and she was limp - completely flat...almost like there was no life to her. I grabbed a blanket and without thought ran out to the car to rush her to emerg. We called the vet on the way and before I had even walked through the doors they had grabbed her from me and brought her to the back (A huge thank you to Alta Vista Emerg Centre and Dr. Erica Tyre...They were amazing). They sat us down in a room and walked us through the entire process. They tested her for Parvo and reluctantly had to tell us that it came back positive. Dr. Tyre indicated that she was having a hard time hearing her lungs...we gave them a go ahead to do an xray...We found out that she had partially collapsed lungs. She had also suffered a seizure on the way to the emerg which my boyfriend and I tried our best to comfort her through to the best of our ability. It was bad news after bad news. Even with the 6-7K treatment, little baby Bronx had a very small chance of surviving...almost impossible. They advised us, and we had to make the awful decision to put the little girl down. We held her and covered her in her blanket to comfort her. Throughout the entire process I had tried to contact the breeder (GILLES LEGOS) with no success. We got home and rushed to review her medical history. It indicated that she HAD been vaccinated for Parvo...however absolutely NO certificate of vaccination was provided to us...there was simply a date and her age and a measly sticker stuck to her records. It caught our attention. We then looked at the front of her health record pamphlet and peeled off his company sticker from the front....just as I suspected the Health Records were from Quebec City...yet this dog was apparently born in Winchester...Of course to anyone who knows anything about puppy mills, this became obvious to us. We FINALLY got a hold of him via email and after asking him to contact us via telephone and getting responses indicating that he couldn't because he was out of town, we told him about the circumstance. He replied with the follows;
"before we bring her to you she was in good shape and running around when we picked her up, what test of parvos did they do ?
it's impossible that she had parvos, yesterday she was ok and today you tell us that she passed away?
we will phone tomorrow"
[I never received a phone call.]
He then responded with...
"we need to know wha type of test of parvos did she used?
it''s important , and we are sure at 100% that is not a parvos those test are not accurant , and lot of puppies are tested positive and they dont have a parvos"
"sorry but lots of vets are dishonest and is not him that he can answer those questions.
what type of stool that she had?
did she eat?
did she play with your dog?
we breed dogs for over 25 years and we know all deases, medication etc....
and we know when a vet is wrong or not and can prouf it also.
we will talk to you only when we will received all responce to all our question.
we need that and we will not take only the words of your vet."
It is now January 9th and I am still fighting with him. I told him that I will provide him the records when he meets with me in person, or provides me with an address that I can mail him a copy. PLEASE if you know any information about this breeder, if he has EVER shipped you a puppy...PLEASE review your weigh bill...it will have his address. PLEASE contact me with ANY info you have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meg.MacAndrew@gmail.com
THANK YOU!!