Well done MM, magnificent stickability!
We had a similar experience when I was searching for Crystal. Advertised in London, with the same pic and varying descriptions etc. I couldn't pick up,
"but someone would deliver once Western Union confirmed transfer" etc etc.
Then a wretched harridan of a woman in an evil filthy ramshackle bungalow on the Fens with a poor little girl locked in a revolting little chicken cage, so weak she couldn't run! She locked herself to my lap quivering until we left. I reported both to our PDSA
(charity) who God bless them rescued 14 dogs including the sad little lady we'd encountered from this hell house. By then we had Crystal, but I sponsored her and she was happily re-homed two months after rescue. Advertised as a year old, she was in fact 5 and had been used as a breeding machine for a few years. I correspond with her new owner on and off and after 6 months or so of readjustment she's now very happy with a retired couple like us.
