Okay so this can get a little long because it is a long story, however i need some advice on the matter. On august 13th I was on a trip to Nc, and on this trip I purchased a very small chi, in which I named Paris. Now, me knowing nothing about breeders, or puppy mills happily bought my "7 week old" little girl and my friend purchased her "7 week" brother. Things were fine with Paris for a while, she had some lose stool, however i thought that it was due to the fact that I was feeding her wet food, so we switched to dry food, and the potty problems continued, untill tuesday when i woke up to her in a state which her entire body was limp, her eyes were open but rolled back in her head, and her breaths were only maybe at the most 5 times a min. infact her breaths were so sparse that I thought she was dead imediately, I started crying and ran to my husband who studied her hard and saw she was alive and breathing, and we rushed her to the vet.
Now, we get to the vet and its worse then we thought, her gums are snow white, and her temperature is 92 degrees, and thats about 10 degrees to low. and her weight has dropped from 1lb all the way down to 13oz. they hook her up to two IV's one in her front leg and another in her tail, trying to pump her with both fulids and glucose. They keep her on heating pads and slowly are able to bring her back to normal. Meanwhile they send us home, and we call to check on her about every 30 min. Finally right before they close they call us up there and give us instructions on feeding, watering, and Karo Syrup. as well as Albon for her coccidia that she picked up some where. and at this time she is a seemingly normaly baby girl again.
Paris remains just fin through out the night, eating great, drinking good, peeing and taking her meds. we are somewhat night owls, so she is up with us at midnight when we run to Mc Donalds even then, she was spunky paris, she was fighting me for my hamburger, and jumping around, she even pounced at my drink and knocked it over TWICE! she was as playful and alive as she had been before anything ever happened.
3am we head to bed, I dont want Paris in her crate because I want to keep a good watch at her, I want to be able to see her if i roll over and want to check on her, so I put her in a box with a bunch of towels and cuddle her up with her lil toys, and she seems fine, 6am comes, I have to pee, and I roll over and look down in Paris's Box and shes in the same state as the morning before. I yell at my husband to wake up and we call and locate the emergency vet, and we head off to take her there. They take paris, and leave us in the exam room, sitting... sitting...sitting...now, keep in mind that this clinic closes at 7:30am, its now... 7ish... and this freak show of a woman walks into our exam room holding some papers, now I seriously mean freakshow, she had her hair split down the middle, half pink, half purple, and then a huge tounge ring sticking out of her mouth. says nothing about how paris is doing at all, slaps some papers down infront of us and says "you guys ready to sign the papers to put her to sleep?"
I lost it.. For one, HOW DARE SHE COME IN THERE AND SAY THAT TO ME WITH OUT SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT HOW PARIS WAS OR WHAT THEY FOUND WRONG WITH HER! and then two, if the vet was able to perk her up the day before why couldnty they right now? ...heres why...THEY CLOSED IN 20 MIN and they didnt want to have to deal with her!!! By the way, she weighs 9oz on this day, so shes getting worse. and these people refuse to help!?!? Im still angry about this and it was days ago.
Even more so im mad at what she said afterwards when i confronted her with those two issues, she says to me "Well you have three choices, You can put her to sleep and PAY for it" or "You can take her home and let her die" or "You can sign her over to the hospital and we will PUT HER TO SLEEP FOR FREE" I was livid. I quickly chose to take her, when the freak brings her back out to me with a 200 dollar vet bill the poor baby has a bandage around her neck, were they tried to give her a cathader and tore her poor neck to shreads. again.. I was mad.. however we went to her real vet and waited on them to open, and when they did they again were able to bring her back up and told us to get her on one inch of nutrical every hour. and again they keep her from 8am till closing time at 6pm, and today dont even charge us, unlike those er vets that robbed us and didnt do anything at all but tear my babies neck up and try to kill her.
So we head home, do all we are suposed to, keep up on the Albon and the Nutrical, and do everything we are suposed to, but today she wont eat, I tried everything, boiled her some chicken, she wouldnt eat it, no wet food, no dry food, no NOTHING, finally i am gettting to the point where i have tried everything, and I talk to my friend Brittany who runs a Rescue in NY (ChiWantOne.com) and she has me blend and liquify the wet food,some white rice, and the chicken and try and dropper feed it to her, how ever she just keeps thowing up what ever i get her to take down. and the same stuff slowly happens, gums turn white, eyes start to roll back, and her body becomes limp, at this time its 2am, I refused to take her back to that emergency clinic, all i could do for her was lay and hold her, and hope she chould make it till 8am so we could get her back to Dr Hill, at 3:15ish she left me, she gave a few little jerks and then died in my arms. I was crushed, and still am, being this was only night before last.
But since then in talking to brittney I find out that where i got her was a puppy mill, I didnt know anything about puppy mills, i thought it was just a breeder, and in this, this man is selling sick pups, and UNDER AGE. going back i pull out my recept and this man told me the entire time I was there that Paris and Gage ( her brother that my friend owns) were 7 weeks old ( which is NC's state law) , well we find out that these babies were really only 5 weeks old. Brittney now as livid as me, is helping me take action, and we want to get him shut down and save all those pups.
We confronted him about they age thing, and he WILLINGLY admits that he lied about the age JUST TO SELL THE PUPPS! He says he will give me puppy for free once its "ready" so to him probably means when its 5 weeks old, so we are gonna do what we can to get this jerk taken care of so he cant keep doin this to innocent lil babies. I just wanted to share my story and find out what you guys would do as far as the whole milling situation.
