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Originally Posted by jeanief

I agree Anna, you can find yorkies for less than $2,000. It's a touchy area when you have been ripped off or purchased a very sick pup from someone and you see another person interested in buying from that person. I don't think anyone was attacking anyone in this post. I got ripped off from a guy in FL with 30 other people. My pup didn't die but many others did, and we all had vet big vet bills. Some had vet bills of $2,400 and the pup still died. It was all very heartbreaking !! His web site looked great and the pups were darling. 7 of us thought we had bought the pup named Fendi. He said he was the breeder, they had AKC papers, he sent pictures of the parents, health guarantees, vet checked, etc. When I picked up my tiny pup that was supposed to be 11 wks ( yeah right , he was about 6 wks!) at the airport he just STUNK like blood and poop. He was sooo sick and coughing and bloody stool, but he made it thank God! We all worked on getting this guy put out of business for 1 1/2 yrs. We found out he was gettin the pups from Brazil ( and found the breeder in Brazil) , false vet health certs. for shipping, no AKC papers ( akc had never heard of him) pup were to young to ship, and never callled anyone back, same picture of the parents sent to the 30 of us, I could go on and on. It wasn't about the $$ it was about these poor pups that were so, so sick and getting him shut down! Nobody seemed to care and we kept on bugging the police, lemon law( thats a joke) FBI, the airline that shipped all these sick pups, and FINALLY he is jail for fraud and selling sick pups, to name a few. We all get our $13.73 check each month from the Flordia corrections Dept. I thought I had asked the right questions and his web was so nice. Live and learn. Sorry this was so long. I can't stop when I get thinking about all this. I guess we would all have to agree that get proof of what is promised in writing, and if something seems " not right", RUN!

Wow what a horrible ordeal for you to have gone through. Thankfully your little one survived. It is so disheartening to hear of how cruel and unscupulous some people can be over live animals. Anything goes to make a dishonest $. It was so good of you to post this entire story.Even if it makes just one person think first and not get into such a heartbreaking situation. That is what is so wonderful about Yorkie Talk...we can share our stories and hopefully help others to avoid the bad situations that some of us have found ourselves in.