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I am having kind of a situation and looking for some advice....
I bought a puppy about a year ago, the dog came with a lifetime health and temperament guarantee (she was a working dog and supposed to be trained in Schutzhund)... the dog ended up developing wry jaw at 4 months old and was no longer able to train/work in that sport.
We contacted the breeder and they wanted a letter from a vet, which we provided and they accepted. We asked the breeder if they wanted the puppy back, they did not. So we re homed the puppy to a family with the breeders written consent. the dog was under 6 months old so she was not spayed, but the buyers were made aware of her condition and we screened the homes appropriately (without the breeders help) to make sure it was a family home, we actually had a lot of trouble re homing this dog just due to the twisted jaw which was clearly visible while looking at the dog.
So the breeder has a litter recently and emails us to ask if we wanted a pup from this breeding, we agree and then all of a sudden they tell us that we are not getting a puppy back because we didn't take the dog to the vet within the first 48 hours of owning her.......kind of combing the contract for whatever they could find I guess... this stipulation is in the contract but we also imported this dog from another country and paid for the vet certificate for the dog to fly....so the dog saw a vet days before she was shipped and we paid for that visit. They also claim that in the contract stipulates 2 letters from different vets are needed to confirm the defect... but they accepted the first letter without mentioning the second letter.
I also recently found out that the mother of this dog had the same genetic jaw condition, the breeder says that they didn't notice it until after they bred her a few times...
Wondering what I should do? press for a puppy with legal action or chalk it up to lesson learned?
What good are breeder guarantees if they are not going to stick to them... or comb the contract for whatever they can find...
I feel taken advantage of but is this pretty common? was it my mistake to trust this person?
I bought a puppy about a year ago, the dog came with a lifetime health and temperament guarantee (she was a working dog and supposed to be trained in Schutzhund)... the dog ended up developing wry jaw at 4 months old and was no longer able to train/work in that sport.
We contacted the breeder and they wanted a letter from a vet, which we provided and they accepted. We asked the breeder if they wanted the puppy back, they did not. So we re homed the puppy to a family with the breeders written consent. the dog was under 6 months old so she was not spayed, but the buyers were made aware of her condition and we screened the homes appropriately (without the breeders help) to make sure it was a family home, we actually had a lot of trouble re homing this dog just due to the twisted jaw which was clearly visible while looking at the dog.
So the breeder has a litter recently and emails us to ask if we wanted a pup from this breeding, we agree and then all of a sudden they tell us that we are not getting a puppy back because we didn't take the dog to the vet within the first 48 hours of owning her.......kind of combing the contract for whatever they could find I guess... this stipulation is in the contract but we also imported this dog from another country and paid for the vet certificate for the dog to fly....so the dog saw a vet days before she was shipped and we paid for that visit. They also claim that in the contract stipulates 2 letters from different vets are needed to confirm the defect... but they accepted the first letter without mentioning the second letter.
I also recently found out that the mother of this dog had the same genetic jaw condition, the breeder says that they didn't notice it until after they bred her a few times...
Wondering what I should do? press for a puppy with legal action or chalk it up to lesson learned?
What good are breeder guarantees if they are not going to stick to them... or comb the contract for whatever they can find...
I feel taken advantage of but is this pretty common? was it my mistake to trust this person?