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DO NOT SUPPORT THIS PUPPY MILL!!.
On January 14th 2012 I went into The Puppy Spot on E. Colonial...the same owner who owns this store... with my husband with the sole intention to just look at the dogs for fun. I picked up a
Miniature Schnauzer with no real intention of buying but after 10 minutes of holding him I was starting to feel like I should buy him. I am not an impulse buyer by any means and so I checked the account to see how much we had...I went outside to think and when I saw another couple looking at this same puppy I realized that I had to take him home. We signed some papers, spent 527.18 and we're told we would receive his breeding papers in the mail in about 2 weeks. That should have been my first indication that something wasnt right but we took him home anyways. That night he developed a cough and in doing some research I found out he had kennel cough. Tuesday the 17th so my husband took him for the exam and the vet stated that he was fine, just had kennel cough, and gave us medication. I also had my husband ask about the Luxated Patella (Grade 1) that I noticed on the original paperwork. The doctor said that he would grow out of this and with the meds his cough cleared up fairly quickly. All seemed well for a while. I was so excited and loved Bowzer like a kid. What happened next was so heartbreaking.
Sunday morning at about 2am he started having seizures. My husband and I woke up to a very odd kind of strangled yelping noise; when we looked into Bowzers cage he was seizing.The first one was very short and fairly minimal so I figured this was some sort of fluke. No more than 2 hours later the same thing only worse. We took him to the Emergency Vet. They gave him an IV, charcoal, and other medications; told us when we left there that morning to take him to Boggy Creek Animal Clinic. We went straight there where they continued treatment. I was took him home around 9am. He seemed much more like his little puppy self so I thought this might just be ok. At about 10 am he started seizing again; this seizure was horrible. I rushed him back to Boggy Creek Animal Clinic. The vet told us that if it had been anything toxic he would have started to improve so it had to be a Liver shunt, which is a birth defect.
They kept him for the day. I picked him up at 5pm and all was fine till about 9pm when he had another seizure. His last seizure, we took him to the emergency vet again and decided to put him to sleep. Any other decision would have been too painful on our part and too cruel to my Bowzer.
When my husband and I went back for a refund the manager made copies of all our paperwork and said that she would have the owner call us back. We told her we would wait and did, for 2.5 hours. We also had to drive to get the paperwork of the 48 hour exam because their fax "wasn't working". When I returned I had lost a great deal of patience and told her that there was no reason I should have to wait and I would make a HUGE deal out of this if I didn't speak to the owner. She said that he would call the following morning. Which he didnt, he didnt get a hold of us untill Friday the 11th and only then said, very rudly, we needed to provide a State necropsy report for him to issue a refund. Did I mention that we never received our breeding paperwork? Have picked up the next best thing (after all this was a birth defect) left him yet another message which has not been returned. By this point my husband has contacted wftv channel 9, the BBB and we are preparing to take him to small claims court. Channel 9 is going to investigate because this whole thing never should have happened in the first place and we are not the first people who bought from this place that this has happened to. This puppy mill will be shut down as soon as we can manage it because this entire thing is unacceptable! We are still waiting on a phone call.
THE SAME OWNER OWNS THIS STORE TOO!!! DO NOT SUPPORT THIS BUSINESS!!!…
