Well everyone, its not over. I wish I would have found this forum before I purchased my little scruffy. About 3 weeks ago I purchased a Shih Tzu for my children for Christmas, brought the little puppy home and the kids instantly fell in love with him. After 3 or 4 days went by we noticed he was sick, originally the doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia but a couple days later after many, many test and xrays I was told that my little puppy had died... I had to return home and tell my kids the horrible news. He had died from a problem with his esophagus, something the vet told me he was born with.
I called Brushy Creek and of course the person I had to talk to (David) was out of the country.... well after about a week of trying to get a response I drove out to the Kennel and simply walked in... David had apparently arrived back in the country that very day (haha) I was nice, I figured it would be best to be nice about it, and he did in fact tell me that the agreement was for a new dog and they would not refund money, I said fine. I was told he was getting some more dogs in from .. a relative ... I think he told me, or someone in the Dallas area.... something like that and I could return the following Monday to pick a dog. (this was on a friday) He was gracious enough to offer me a girl instead of a boy (my wife wanted a girl) and he said normally it would have cost another $100 but he would give it to me for the same price because of the problems. ( I have also noticed she has gone up to $550 on their site, got mine for $350)
I returned to pick my new puppy up late Monday night. He had two girls for me to pick from... something didnt seem right... but I was excited about getting a new puppy for my kids. I returned home with the puppy, my kids again fell in love with this new Shih Tzu (so the papers called it) ... well... you guest it, about 2 days later the puppy (Izzy) started having blood in its stool and I noticed it really wasnt eating anything... This was saturday night, the 23rd of Dec, so I had to rush it to a local emergency vet in the area, after waiting for 3 hours to get my dog checked the doc comes in and tells me, "you know this isnt a Shih Tzu" I was floored and couldnt remember much after that... except for the fact that the dog looks like a Yorkie Shih Tzu mix.... so they game me a mixed breed dog and she is sick as well. The doc didnt hold out much hope for the dog, said it probably didnt get to eat much food and could possible have a brain problem.
Let me quote the doc "Izzy is demonstrating abnormal eating behavior. This can be due to brain problems, genetic problems, age, etc.. Izzy may have a foreign body causing the gi symtoms. There is also the possibility of parasites, viral, bacrerial, etc. Additional diagnostics may be necessary. Izzy has no passed the purchase examine due to her illness and abnormal behavior. Izzy does not have the correct conformation for a Shih Tzu. Please notify the breeder that Izzy has not passed her ezamine.
That visit was about $200 and we still dont really know what is wrong, will hope she makes it to see our regular vet on Tuesday. I havent bothered calling the breeders, because they will just tell me that they will exchange the dog... well my kids are attached to it now... Im not about to trade it in for another sick dog.
The point is,
DONT PURCHASE A DOG FROM THESE PEOPLE!!!! and
anyone of you out there that own web sites should setup a link that says Brushy Creek Kennel and point it to this forum. This will move the forum up above any of Brushy Creeks listings on Google. I was going to put together a web site (thats what I do for a living) and tell my story but I found this. I am willing to get involved in any way to help shut this company down.
Sorry so long... it helped to get this off of my chest. As you can imagine, there has been a lot of tears in my house over these puppies.