Yorkshire Terriers

Can anyone tell me if they have had problems with this breeder out of Florida? We have purchases 2 Yorkie Teacups from her. When we purchases the first one, she was great. When we purchased the second, she was great. Then, the second was not well and we lost him. Our vet said without an autopsy of course, there is no way to tell for sure what he died from and what caused him to be so ill. He couldn't keep his blood sugar up, had problems with his bowels, etc. and the vet said it could very well have been Liver Shunt. We have been so upset at loosing out little baby. Our first puppy is wonderful and healthy. She promised us another little male puppy and refuses now to answer our phone calls, faxes, emails, etc. I spoke with her the last time and she said the puppy died from hypoglycemia. This was a possibility at first because we couldn't keep his blood sugar levels up, however, he was being fed around the clock every 2 hours and she advised and was seeing our vet that we trust completely. This breeder, Yorkiebabies.com has added the most aweful heartache to our whole family. We still wait to hear, we have still begged, pleaded and even threatened with a lawsuit since our puppy was very, very expensive and we have spent so much money between the two pups with her. We are astonished how someone that seemed so nice and caring could possibly do this to us. Does anyone out there have any information on the breeder? Help Please?!!!

By the way...she IS a breeder on this site under Yorkie Breeders. Please help our family get our new puppy from her as she promised. We truly loved our puppy. He was like our new baby, just like our beautiful female yorkie we got from her.

Thank you so much for answering. I do hope if anyone else has any ideas about her, they will write. Her contract does say she won't replace if a puppy dies of hypoglycemia. The thing is, the vet said there is no way to tell other than an autopsy and we didn't have one done. The breeder was ticked off because we didn't take the puppy back to her to "get him well". However, we have used this vet for years and have full faith in her. She is wonderful. That to us would have been like taking our child back to someone else out of state and leaving him for someone else to care for when very sick. The breeder is trying to say hypoglycemia now (as she did promise us another puppy just like him) but even the vet said and put in the paperwork it could have been several things, including liver shunt and that is seemed like that was more the cause. He was being fed every 2 hours. Force fed with a dropper and given nutrical. There was much more wrong with this little puppy. His whole GI tract didn't seem right and for some reason didn't seem to be able to absorb properly to keep his sugar up.

Anyone with any information on this breeder, please write. She won't even return our phone calls or call our vet as she promised. We are devastated!

Thank you!

Yes, we did. But he just got worse and worse. It seemed like he just couldn't keep his blood sugar up. His little bottom pouched out, he didn't want to eat so we had to force feed him with a syringe. We took him back several times actually. I have begged and pleaded and now threatened to sue her for either a pupppy or our money back. Our fist little female is wonderful and healthy. She promised me a phone call back the week we spoke last, and I even said to her, you promise to call me back? And she said again yes, I will call you. She promised to speak with our vet and once she was told by our vet that it wasn't hypoglycemia, she would give us another puppy. We even spoke about which one. I was to get one, had one already picked out, and now she won't respond at all to anything and will not even read her emails from us nor will she respond to our faxes or anything. She is in Fla. and we are in Ga.
Does anyone out there know who I can go to for filing a complaint and getting help with this? We are already probably going to have to hire an attorney in Florida.

Thank you again for all of your help and your responses.

By the way, these are very, very expensive puppies and she advertised on THIS site!

I have bred Yorkies for some years now and I have in my contract that written Vet records must be supplied to receive money back or a new pupy. Luckily I have to this date not had any puppies returned (knock on wood) but ya know if I did have a puppy die on me I sure would jump at the chance to replace it as BAD word of mouth sure spreads faster than GOOD word of mouth.
You are proably screwed, is it really worth the hassel and time and money to get another puppy from the same breeder? You would have to go to FL to go to court miss work and travel expense. And this is just what she is hoping for by the way she is hoping that you will just go away. So if you have the time and money I would take her to court. If you dont have the time or If you don't want to spend more money on her maybe you could get a little revenge.....Do you have her address? Send the ASPCA over to her house to check on conditions there. What you see on the internet isn't always what you see in person. If she has bad conditions then that would explain why she has sick puppies that she doesn't want to replace.
also I have found that if you type in a persons name on google along with say the word yorkie if there is bad news out there about that person you will find it somewhere on the internet.

Wow, sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. I just got my yorkie 1 month ago at a petstore. I can't believe the prices she charges for these puppies, 3k and 5k? Have you thought of making a report to Better Business Bureau? Not sure if they can help, but since she has a website and all, maybe it's a start? PS, I live in Tampa

The red flag should have been the word Teacup....
There is no such thing in any breed(no where does it say on any AKC papers teacup).This is a word use to make money.
I would cut your losses and tell others of your bad expericenc with this person.
Companys rely on word of mouth.

Basically, IMO you dont have a case.
If her contract specifies what is NOT covered and no necropsy was performed to determine cause of death, you habe no way to prove what it died from.

Most contracts also require a necropsy to be performed in these cases and for those results to be provided to the breeder.
So, if she says replacements/refunds are NOT provided for these causes of death_____, _____, then unless you prove it was not one of those, you cant prove your case.

Not saying its right, but likely how the law will see it.

If you go elsewhere for a puppy in the future and see the words 'teacup' used, this is the first clue to run the other way!

Florida does have a "puppy Lemon Law" you can look it up on a google search this may help in your efforts. Good luck!