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Originally Posted by stitchsmom08  I purchased a puppy from carrie sawyer in September 2007. He is the best thing that could have ever happened to me! But he didn't come to me that way! When we picked Stitch up from the airport he had a terrible smell coming from his ears! We couldn't figure out where it was coming from at first. We took him to petsmart and the groomer immediately went to his ears and started pulling out overgrown hair and an extremely large amount of a black darkish red stuff that looked like dirty putty. She also showed us that his footpads were overgrown with hair. The very next day we took him to our vet and found out that both ears were irritated, he had kennel cough,and he also had giardia!! I called carrie and was told that he was the last of the litter and his ears were probably overlooked and that he was personally groomed by her 14 yr old daughter the day before he came. I did notify the BBB and even though my baby suffered so much I was only able to get back 101 dollars. That was the amount of the medication that I had to purchase! I do admit he is a wonderful little guy, a bit timid, but my little man! I would never recommend her to anyone. It's hard enough having a new puppy, but a sick one is very, very hard! |
I'm sorry that you had to go through this, and I'm certainly sorry that you weren't compensated (the phone calls to the Sawyers probably cost more than the money she gave you in return). As I said, I had to spend thousands in medical care for my puppy, and that was just in the first two weeks after her arrival! I've now had my dog for several months, and her health is still problematic. She still struggles to keep things down and so doesn't quite get the nutrition she needs to stay healthy. She's very skinny and has to be on medication. I adore her anyway--possibly even more because of her needs--but it's truly disheartening to spend so much on an animal and then have to deal with health problems simply because the breeder is so immoral. Carrie Sawyer is very obviously running a puppy mill, and I know that I wasn't the first to report her. This really ought to count as cruelty to animals.
Still...good for you for keeping the puppy and giving him the attention he deserves. Heaven knows he wasn't getting it from the breeder!