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bsabbot · 12-30-2006, 09:42 AM

we just got our new furbaby a week ago and I took her to the vet and he said she has a hereditary inguinal hernia-which he said usually the breeders will pay for the surgery since their vet wouldve noticed it and their parents /grandparents/littermates most likely would have the same issue.
I called the Jill and Larry Bougie, the breeders today-and he said he gave her to me for a discounted price already b/c they were leaving town and that he would opt to pay 1/2 the surgery cost to fix-
Since my vet was confident that the other litters most likely would have this problem, or that the vet check initially should have found this (it's a big bump on the side of her belly that protrudes out further than the rest of her belly) it makes me think that this breeder tried to take me.
she seemed really nice and had her babies *about 7 running around the house in diapers-and this was the first breeder I had met that didnt cage their babies, so i felt confident. I guess one of the redflags would have been when she said she didnt even know this one was pregnant, and my daughter said to me later-how did they know which of the males was the father then?
I am so bummed, I am worried now about her health and well being and possibly being jipped by the breeder.
what would you do? I told the guy that the initial vet-check wouldve shown this and even with the discount, I wouldnt have bought her because it would have meant a surgery to correct it and who wants to start off that way discount or not? ---
grrrrr why is it so hard to find a good breeder? without paying a fortune?

12-30-2006, 09:42 AM	#1
bsabbot Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: denver Posts: 120	your opinion....???? we just got our new furbaby a week ago and I took her to the vet and he said she has a hereditary inguinal hernia-which he said usually the breeders will pay for the surgery since their vet wouldve noticed it and their parents /grandparents/littermates most likely would have the same issue. I called the Jill and Larry Bougie, the breeders today-and he said he gave her to me for a discounted price already b/c they were leaving town and that he would opt to pay 1/2 the surgery cost to fix- Since my vet was confident that the other litters most likely would have this problem, or that the vet check initially should have found this (it's a big bump on the side of her belly that protrudes out further than the rest of her belly) it makes me think that this breeder tried to take me. she seemed really nice and had her babies *about 7 running around the house in diapers-and this was the first breeder I had met that didnt cage their babies, so i felt confident. I guess one of the redflags would have been when she said she didnt even know this one was pregnant, and my daughter said to me later-how did they know which of the males was the father then? I am so bummed, I am worried now about her health and well being and possibly being jipped by the breeder. what would you do? I told the guy that the initial vet-check wouldve shown this and even with the discount, I wouldnt have bought her because it would have meant a surgery to correct it and who wants to start off that way discount or not? --- grrrrr why is it so hard to find a good breeder? without paying a fortune?