OMG!!! I can't believe I just found this thread!!!! I started to post about this back around the first of this year. I bought my Bucky from her!!!! I wrote a novel of a thread and lost it when I hit submit. I tried to rewrite but the train of thought was gone. So here I go again....
In Oct. 18, 2007 I asked about a male that she had listed on her website. I did not realize that she had a puppy mill. I am so gullible. Here is her response:
Hi, Gracy's male is available & sooo gorgeous with the baby face, shorter legs, larger eyes, stand up ears & he is looking for a good loving home. This little guy is a good baby with a very loving personality & I believe he would like to be a lap baby if someone had time with him. I hold my babies a lot & they love it but right now I have a few little ones so it is hard to give each one the attention they need. He still weighs 1 lb 4 ozs so he should be one tiny little guy, probably only reaching 2 1/2 to 3 lbs & yes, with the shipping of $275 it will come to a total of $1975. You will need to send a deposit to hold him because I have 2 other people e-mailing me about this little boy & will not be able to hold him for you if one of them sends first. God bless & keep you, Lorane
I also paid her another $200 on top of that for full breeding rights. I got SCREWED!! I paid way too much for him, a wooping $2175!! I know I am the stupid one who sent her the money, but I thought she was reputable.
I got him off of the plane and he seemed healthy enough, but I took him to the vet to get check out anyway. Thank goodness he was healthy! I absolutely could not believe that she did not call me to see if he got here okay. I had to call her. I just wanted to let her know that he arrived safe.
She said that she would be emailing me his shot records and sending his papers ASAP. Weeks went by and I heard nothing from her. I tried to call and she would not answer. I am starting to feel like I did a bad deal with this lady. I had not gotten a shot record or his papers!!!
Now it is mid-December and she has a little girl listed on her site for $5000. So I decided to leave her a message that my sister is interested in the little girl if our transaction goes smoothly. She must have seen the dollar signs cause she finally called me back.
She gave me excuses about email problems, phone problems and being out of town. She said that she email me the shot records a number of different times and that she had responded back to my numerous emails. Yeah right!!! So I finally get an email from her on the shots with 3 dates and 3 shots. NO HARD COPY OF A SHOT RECORD!!!
And she claims that the papers must have gotten lost in the mail, but “luckily I have an extra from a male puppy I lost in the litter”
OMG!!!! How is that LUCKY????? Who says stuff like that??? I am hoping she just didn’t send them in the first place and was lying about loosing a puppy to save face.
I am beginning to just pray that Bucky stays healthy and I get his papers from this lady!!! A week or so later the arrive in the mail, the AKC papers, marked LIMITED REGISTRATION!!!!
OMG AGAIN!!!
I gave this lady $200 for full registration.
I tried to call her, left messages and emailed about this and once again I could not reach her. I am so fed up with her by now I contacted AKC directly about this. Thank goodness I kept all of my email correspondences with her. (Something in my gut said that they might come in handy and they sure did.) I printed those off and proceeded to write the AKC to get the FULL Registration I paid for.
I did not buy Bucky with the intent to breed him, but I did want that option if I changed my mind. So after months of correspondence with the AKC, I finally got Bucky’s papers back March 08 (5 months later) with full registration.
So to sum it all up, she is not what she claims!!! Bucky is now 5 lbs., not the 2 ½ she said he would be. She tried to get to me with the AKC papers, I still am unsure about his shot record and I think she lied to me about his birthday. And I paid WAY TOO MUCH FOR HIM!!
But I did get very lucky that my spoiled one and only little boy is healthy, so far and I love him to pieces!!!
So beware to anyone considering to buy from her. I GOT VERY LUCKY!!