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Complaint Review: Bethany Pratt - Internet Michigan

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  • Bethany Pratt Bon Brae Saint Clair Shores, MI 48081 Internet, Michigan United States of America

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When I told Bethany Pratt I was interested in her puppy she let me know that I had to purchase ASAP or he would be gone. Having fell in love with just his picture (and being naive) I jumped on the opportunity. I asked Bethany to send over pictures of my puppies parents and she said she was completely computer illiterate and could not send them without assistance. I agreed to wait to the weekend to get the photos and they were never sent.

The day had come to receive my puppy and I was overjoyed, we went to pick him up (in a parking lot where the shipper had told me to meet her) and saw that the puppies are shipped in plastic containers in the back of the mini van piled on top of one another. The shipper was holding my puppy waiting in the front seat. I was overwhelmed with excitement and didn't pay attention to much else. We got the puppy in the car and started driving home. I noticed he smelled of feces but figured it was from the travel. We bathed the puppy when we got home and as I was blow drying him and brushing through his fur I noticed small white particles and assumed he had dandruff. I called his vet in the morning to move his appointment up so that we could get him some anti-dandruff treatment.
 
When I arrived at the vet's office the following morning about 12 hours after receiving the puppy I started to explain why I though he had dandruff. The vet took a sample of one of the pieces in his fur and looked at it in a microscope. She informed me this was not dandruff this was lice. She quickly decided to further examine him. She took swabs of his ears which revealed extremely dark wax, ear mites and a yeast infection. She tested for internal parasites and immediately issued a de-wormer. She was appalled at his condition and told me I should certainly report the breeder and that everything that he had was highly contagious to other dogs so to keep my dogs at home far away.

As I found all of this information out I sent the breeder Bethany Pratt an email asking for the pictures of the puppy's parents that she had promised would be sent that weekend. Yet again Bethany Pratt had an excuse. After a high vet bill I was happy to have him home and starting to get better. I followed all of my vet's instructions and sent Bethany an email explaining all of the problems the puppy she had sent me had, and explaining that since I already spent more on his first vet bill 12 hours after receiving him my money should be refunded (since I should have received a puppy in good health.

Bethany informed me that I could send him back for a refund. Send him back for a refund? I would never send a puppy back to conditions like that. After belligerent, rude and accusatory emails I started looking at the laws to have her prosecuted and have her animals removed from her home. She told me it's no threat to her, she knows the SPCA and they visit her every year and don't bother her. Each year she has some crazy "b***h" like me bothering her. No way to speak to your customers.

A few hours later I was laying on the couch with my new puppy on my chest, suddenly he began shaking. I became concerned and asked my finance if he thought that was odd. We picked him up and looked at him and his eyes began rolling back in his head, he was completely lethargic and he had gone limp. We thought maybe this was a case of hypoglycemia and quickly gave him some of his vitamins (nutrical). This did not help. I called the vet's office frantic (they were closed since it was Sunday evening) and then called the ER vet. The ER vet instructed me to rush the puppy in. Later that evening he was diagnosed with kennel cough and a bad case of pneumonia. After another high vet bill and a quote for an overnight stay and an oxygen machine, our puppy was finally on his way to get better. The ER vet informed us that had we not brought the puppy in he would have died.
 
Through over 50 emails back and forth Bethany revoked and re-offered the option to send the puppy back for a refund. She acknowledged knowing that the puppy had lice and ear mites, but when I had asked in early emails was it safe for my new puppy to be around other dogs she replied "I don't see why not". Bethany emails from her Droid (not a phone for the computer illiterate), she stated once I started issues through email that she was checking my ip addresses and would no longer answer me or anyone near my home (most people don't know how to check an IP address if you can't upload a picture).

She is a compulsive liar and a fraud. She never ONCE asked if the puppy was okay, and when asked about this in one of the final emails said "it doesn't really matter does it". This is not someone you want  to get a puppy from. I hope my review can help get her out of business and keep people from going through the heartache that I endured with my poor innocent puppy. This woman is either a puppy mill, backyard breeder or is purchasing puppies from a puppy mill. Before I reviewed her on puppyfind.com she was posting 20-30 puppies a week, but claims she only has 14 dogs at home. STAY AWAY and BUYER BEWARE.

Despite the thousands of dollars spent on vet bills my puppy is now doing well, and I'm glad that I removed him from the horrible conditions he was in. 

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#5 General Comment

More Evidence this Report Is Fake

AUTHOR: Amy - (United States)

POSTED: Friday, April 26, 2019

In my other comment, I posted a link to the real review that someone copied and pasted and changed the name to look like it was Bethany Pratt. I'm not sure it worked though, so here it is again. It was filed by someone named Kathryn, and it is against ToyPuppyForSale.com, (breeder name Cinthia from Ohio) posted June 7th, 2012, months before this was posted, and other than forgetting to copy and paste the begining paragraph, and changing the name of the breeder it is word for word the same.

https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/toypuppyforsalecom/internet-ohio-/toypuppyforsalecom-cinthia-jode-breeder-puppy-mill-scam-lice-pneumonia-back-yard-bre-894177

I've now determined it is almost certainly from Tanisha Breton, someone Bethany Pratt exposed for creating a fake rescue to ellicit funds.

I've also found another copy and pasted review from the same exact day this fake one was filed, on pissedcustomer.com, also copied and pasted from a review someone else had posted previously on ripoff report. It's interesting that both of these plagarized reviews happen right after Bethany Pratt exposes Tanisha Breton, and both are copied from the site Bethany Pratt used to blow the whistle on Tanisha Breton.

Here is the review alleging a completely different story than this, filed the same day as this on another site: h t t p s : / / b e t h a n y - p r a t t - d o g - b r e e d e r . p i s s e d c o n s  u m e r . c o m / r e  v i e w . h t m l 

And here is the original review it was copy and pasted from, which was filed weeks before against some breeder in California:

https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ranchpuppycom/bakersfield-california/ranchpuppycom-deception-unlawful-puppy-mill-death-parvo-multiple-dead-puppy-bakersf-388800

If I wasn't sure before whether it was Tanisha Breton that was making those fake reviews, it seems pretty clear now. You can also go to https://www.co.jackson.mi.us/597/Court-Records to see all the court cases against Tanisha Breton from scams, fraud, shoplifting, etc. It is absolutely crazy.

I feel so bad that this poor Bethany Pratt is getting all fake reviews just for trying to alert people to the fake rescue this horrible woman started! Not cool!

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#4 General Comment

This Report Is Clearly Plagiarized, and Does Seem to Be Retaliation About Something Unrelated

AUTHOR: Amy - (United States)

POSTED: Wednesday, April 24, 2019

I looked more into this issue, after some of the things I have been hearing about a completely different breeder, breeder X. Bethany Pratt seems to have called out breeder X for some incredibly unethical practices, and it does seem to appear that breeder X responded by copy and pasting someone else's report against a different breeder, but changing the name of the breeder to Bethany.

You can see a rip off report with the exact same wording that was filed months earlier about someone else entirely. Original Ripoff Report Against Someone Else

It is clearly a cut a paste job with the name changed, as you can see from the report it was copy and pasted from, that was filed long before against someone else entirely. I find it highly suspicious that this report was posted very soon after Bethany blew the whistle on breeder X for highly unethical practices. I have been looking into breeder X after hearing some very unsavory things from friends, and it would seem to be very much in her character to falsify a report to discredit Bethany in retataliation for the whistle-blowing.

I hope anyone reading looks at the link and sees that this report was clearly just copied and pasted on here. It looks like it was in retaliation from Bethany trying to warn others over scams breeder X was perpetrating. Breeder X also seems to have very similar drama with a number of other reputable local breeders. I don't know Bethany at all, and I can't speak to anything regarding her breeding either way, I only saw this looking into breeder X, but I think rather highly of Bethany because she was willing to risk such retaliation to come forward about something unethical she saw breeder X do. I don't know this breeder at all, but I feel like she did a brave thing, and I hope everyone will look to the link and judge for themselves the authenticity of this complaint, seeing as it was copied word for word from another report filed months before.

Thanks for standing up for the pups and their families, Bethany Pratt.

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#3 Consumer Comment

Personal Attack

AUTHOR: Gina - (United States of America)

POSTED: Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Ms. Breton who wrote the above personal attack on Ms. Pratt does not like her, but she has never purchased a dog or any services from Ms. Pratt.  Ms. Breton's entire report is pure fabrication. It is also hard to take someone like Ms. Breton seriously when their reports have so many spelling and grammar errors in them.

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#2 REBUTTAL Individual responds

LoL, Tanisha Breton this is a copy and paste with my name added!

AUTHOR: Bethany - (United States of America)

POSTED: Wednesday, November 28, 2012

This story is even better Tanisha, It is a copy and paste with my name added~ I read it on Michigan Yorkie Meetup wall last year!!!! I have never shipped a dog, and ANYBODY who knows me, KNOWS I have a crappy 3G phone and never email! LMAO~ 

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#1 General Comment

Not true

AUTHOR: Steve - (USA)

POSTED: Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Non of this is true about Beth !!!!!!!

You ppl really need to stop bickering and slandering ppl on legal sites.

GROW UP ALREADY !!!!!!!

This site is for real complaints, not for lyers to play childish games.

This site has so many breeders on it and the thing is, is when you write lies about  breeders you give ALL breeders a bad name and you wonder why so many ppl have problems with breeders- cuz of ppl like you that are just out to slander-

If half the stuff that was said about breeders there would be some rich ppl,

Take someone to court if u have a problem with them.

Let ppl make there own decisions and stop trying to talk them into not even getting the chance to get to know the GOOD breeders like Beth for an example.

Stop your childish games already !!!!! DANG !!!!!!

Anyone can slander- there is a lot of this on this site-

I want to see proof everytime I see ppl slandering other ppl !!!!!!

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