My wife and I bought a boston terrier from Brianna on December 20th of 2007. The dog was supposedly in good health according Brianna. We agreed to buy the dog for her $600.00 asking price. When we bought the dog it appeared healthy. However, that same night we got it we noticed it was extremely sick. It projectile vomited 6-7 times that night as well as had about 4 cases of bad diarrhea with large amounts of blood in it.

We called Brianna the next day about it. She told us she was baffled by the news and thought that it was probably just the dog's nerves. She told us to keep in touch and let her know what develops. Meanwhile, we took the dog to our Vet. Our Vet prescribed medication and modified the dog's diet. The process of trying new meds and diet modifications lasted for over 1.5 months. During the 1.5 months the dog had horrendous diarrhea daily, lost over 3 lbs, refused to drink water and had a severe case of Mites.

We were in touch with Brianna weekly to let her know about the dog's health. (Sidenote: average call back time from Brianna was usually 3-7 days later). Brianna agreed that she would reimburse our vet bills up to the amount we paid for the dog ($600). Brianna also guaranteed us that if the dog wasn't able to get healthy she would give us a different Boston Terrier as well as the $600 refund.

So, after 1.5 months of trying numerous treatments prescribed by our Vet, the dog was unfortunately still sick. The Vet thought it would be sick for the rest of it's life due to the dog's weak immune system and was certain the dog was sick when Brianna sold it to us. Our vet bills totaled $850.00 in our efforts to try to get it healthy. Since there was nothing else we could do to heal the dog we coordinated with Brianna to give the dog back in exchange for a new Boston and our $600 for most of our vet bills. She gave us a new Boston along with a check for $600 as promised.

The new dog we got for the most part was and as is still healthy, luckily. It does, however, have a case of Coxcidia which fortunately is treatable. The unfortunate news is Brianna's check for $600 bounced. This occured on March 8th 2008.

Since then we have been constantly trying to reach Brianna but she won't call us back. We have tried calling both her phone #'s as well as email and even sent a certified letter. We have tried re-cashing the check 5 times now with no luck. As a side note, we still have not received the new dogs AKC paper work and it's been over a month! At this point, we have already turned her into the BBB and sent out a complaint to the AKC through the mail on 4/4/08. All we want at this point is our $600 refund as promised as well as the new dog's AKC paperwork.

Josh
Tacoma, Washington
U.S.A.