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netchick · 10-24-2009, 12:38 AM

Good Morning all. I come to you today to ask your opinion about something regarding my yorkie. Please forgive me if it seems long, I'll try to shorten it up.

We purchased a 2nd yorkie from some wonderful breeders last year at Xmas for 1500.00. when we got the dog home, come to find he had worms. Ok, it was a pain, but no harm done. They did refund our vet bill as it was clearly with the first 2 days.

Few months later, our vet gave our puppy the parvo when he shouldn't have and he had anaphalatic reaction with seizures. He was on valium and the like, and didn't seem like himself for a bit. Our vet seemed clueless at that point, so our wonderful breeders took our puppy for a few days, ran some tests to make sure he was ok, it just took him little while to come out of it. He had some kind of infection and was on antibiotics for couple weeks, but we were sure grateful for our breeders. Our vet was like, oh, he'll be fine, but we were like, no, he's not fine.

Ok, so after about a month or so, we realize the dog is limping on one leg and basically walking on 3 legs. We take him to our wonderful vet and told he has Legge Perthes Disease. So, after having this dog for only 5 months with all this, and him having health guarantee for a year, we decided to return the dog. It broke our heart. They graciously took him back, and she works at a vet office herself, the breeder does. So, after 2 or more months, they give him the surgery, and come to find out, it wasn't legge perthes, he had a hip fracture. Now why no one on breeder end didn't see that on xray, as we gave the films to them. They even stopped their breeding as they thought something was wrong with their line. This dog had champion father and he pranced like a champion himself. Anyway, after 5 months, we were inquiring about the dog and came around to ask for our money back. They kept telling us it was coming, after this or that, and we weren't pushing for it. At one point they did refund 500.00. So, now the other day, we come to find out that we won't get the rest of the money b ack as it wasn't a genetic disease and they paid all this money for his hip fracture surgery. I guess she called our "vet" office and gave them hell as they lead us to believe we had a dog with this problem. It caused us to break the heart of our 8 year old daughter to give dog back. My question is, what would you do? We are out the money and a dog. The vet lead us along this path, then we give dog up, they wait all this time to take care of it, to find it is a fracture. if we knew it was a fracture, we would have taken care of that ourselves and never gave the dog away. They are really nice people and I hate to be a pain. But I would love your input.

I appreciate your time.

10-24-2009, 12:38 AM	#1
netchick Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: downingtown, pa Posts: 12	Would love your input if you have a minute Good Morning all. I come to you today to ask your opinion about something regarding my yorkie. Please forgive me if it seems long, I'll try to shorten it up. We purchased a 2nd yorkie from some wonderful breeders last year at Xmas for 1500.00. when we got the dog home, come to find he had worms. Ok, it was a pain, but no harm done. They did refund our vet bill as it was clearly with the first 2 days. Few months later, our vet gave our puppy the parvo when he shouldn't have and he had anaphalatic reaction with seizures. He was on valium and the like, and didn't seem like himself for a bit. Our vet seemed clueless at that point, so our wonderful breeders took our puppy for a few days, ran some tests to make sure he was ok, it just took him little while to come out of it. He had some kind of infection and was on antibiotics for couple weeks, but we were sure grateful for our breeders. Our vet was like, oh, he'll be fine, but we were like, no, he's not fine. Ok, so after about a month or so, we realize the dog is limping on one leg and basically walking on 3 legs. We take him to our wonderful vet and told he has Legge Perthes Disease. So, after having this dog for only 5 months with all this, and him having health guarantee for a year, we decided to return the dog. It broke our heart. They graciously took him back, and she works at a vet office herself, the breeder does. So, after 2 or more months, they give him the surgery, and come to find out, it wasn't legge perthes, he had a hip fracture. Now why no one on breeder end didn't see that on xray, as we gave the films to them. They even stopped their breeding as they thought something was wrong with their line. This dog had champion father and he pranced like a champion himself. Anyway, after 5 months, we were inquiring about the dog and came around to ask for our money back. They kept telling us it was coming, after this or that, and we weren't pushing for it. At one point they did refund 500.00. So, now the other day, we come to find out that we won't get the rest of the money b ack as it wasn't a genetic disease and they paid all this money for his hip fracture surgery. I guess she called our "vet" office and gave them hell as they lead us to believe we had a dog with this problem. It caused us to break the heart of our 8 year old daughter to give dog back. My question is, what would you do? We are out the money and a dog. The vet lead us along this path, then we give dog up, they wait all this time to take care of it, to find it is a fracture. if we knew it was a fracture, we would have taken care of that ourselves and never gave the dog away. They are really nice people and I hate to be a pain. But I would love your input. I appreciate your time.