[Willow]

I purchased Maddie on with a credit card check back in November from a local breeder. They took that check to their bestfriends petstore and ran it through the electronic machine, told me everything was good to go, gave me a receipt, gave me the check back with void written acrossed it, and sent me on my way with Maddie.

Today I was informed that on December 21 the check came back as insufficient funds. That was over a month after we wrote it. The sheriff who called says he has a copy of the check from the bank proving it.

First, the bank that returned it as insufficient funds had never tried to get the funds from our Credit Card and they are NOT the same bank our card is through.

Criminal charges are pending against me because of the amount of the check. I have until Wednesday to decide what I am going to do or they are going to issue the charges.

My choice is to pay it, so I can keep Maddie, but we don't have the money now. All our money is going into paying bills now and I don't have the spare $ which is why we used the credit card to begin with.

We had made other purchases with the card and we just called and checked the balance on it today and they said it is maxed out. So pulling the money offa there is no longer an option.

Now my credit card company has froze both the check and the card because they said it doesn't add up to them because I am here with a receipt and they have no records of anyone trying to make a purchase for the amount of the receipt.

The girl who ran the check didn't let me fill anything on it. She wrote void on the check after she ran it and handed it back to me with a receipt.

So come Wednesday at this point, we are returning Maddie. They want to give me my cash deposit back. The officer said he will talk to them and see if they will hold her and let me make payments and I explained that wasn't really an option because I don't have the spare money to make payments.

So I guess what I am asking is what do you suggest I do? I am willing to pretty much sell my left kidney to keep my girl!