Puppies

R.I.P my precious angel! Here’s my veterinarian’s video (April 14) of my very genetically sick puppy. I bought my extra tiny teacup dream puppy Jitterbug off the internet from AKC Chihuahua breeder, Stella Smith at akc-chihuahuas.com, StellAdoraChi’s in Plymouth, North Carolina for $3,500. I live on the west coast of Canada. After receiving my tiny puppy my veterinarian diagnosed Jitterbug with: 1) severe hydrocephalus (water on the brain), 2) Atlantoaxia instability (C1-C2) (skull genetically not connected to neck), both congenital abnormalities. My vet informed me the only humane option for Jitterbug was euthanasia (put to sleep).
Email from her breeder, Stella Smith Sent: April 16/09 Hi Diana The survical instability as your vet said Chloe(Jitterbug) had is,There is no evidence published to date that the disease can be predicted by radiographic (x-ray) study,……stella ( totally ignorant statement) IT IS DIAGNOSED BY X-RAYS! Here’s a link on Atlantoaxial instability http://accg.xplorex.com/page200.htm //////
Stella PROMISED me, she would refund my $3,500. in several emails. Email from Stella to my daughter, Date April 15/09 But without a doubt I asked your mom did she want a refund or a new puppy, and she did say refund and she will get it, I PROMISE.///// Then Stella changed her mind and started sending me nasty, hurtful email’s. Email from Stella, Date 25 Apr.(YOU did not return the puppy, you had her put to sleep. THEREFORE YOU ARE ENTITLED TO NOTHING…./////// ( It is NOT LEGAL or EVEN HUMANE TO SHIP a sick (dying) puppy across the US/CANADIAN border, so truly unfair of the Smith’s) /////// Stella’s puppy contract says, you get a refund if no puppy was available, WHICH THERE WAS NOT! Email from Stella, saying she did NOT have a replacement puppy, and again she would refund me.
Date 15 Apr “And I was not trying to push a puppy on you as I do not have one at this moment that I could push on you…. that is why I offered you the refund rather than just telling you when I get one please let me know which one you want…. //////
But I found out though hurtful emails that Stella doesn’t honour her word.
Stella admitted in a email, (AFTER) Jitterbug died on April 14, “I KNOW Chloe ( Jitterbug) had something wong with her. I honestly did. But I thought it was just her little foot.” //////
Then Stella deliberately lied on Rip Off Report.com and wrote (Looking at the puppy, CHLOE…. someone could have dropped her or stepped on her foot.)
http://www.ripoffreport.com/Dog-Breeders/StellAdoraChi-s-Stel/stelladorachi-s-stella-and-fr-d9xdf.htm //////// ( Email from Stella Feb. 4/09) ‘I’m watching Chloe much closer. And I am a bit stumbled as to is it her head making her be so unbalanced or maybe her left foot……. ‘I may take her back to the vet in a couple of weeks so they can take another look at that foot.’ ///// (Which Stella NEVER DID for Jitterbug, and then lied on Rip Off Report that I hurt her. ////// Stella never bothered to tell her vet, what she was observing about Jitterbug that wasn’t normal from birth, so Jitterbug could be THOROUGHLY examined before she sold her. Stella also refused to talk to my vet, about Jitterbug’s diagnosed genetic condition, because it wasn’t important to her. Email from Stella Apr. 15…”I probably would have helped her through until she was just lieing there….I’m thinking maybe a massage would have relieved her”…..thanks stella.///// Email April 17 Stella, “Would I have put her to sleep, Well No, I would have not…I do not want Vet records, registration papers, Nothing”….Stella ///// (That truly would of been cruel and inhumane of Stella)////
Email from Smith’s, “Surely just sending this video will be all the proof we will ever need…You just keep the x-rays, WE DEMAND this video if you want a replacement puppy”… frank smith.////// ( The Smith’s only wanted my vets video, they didn’t care about the x-ray’s or diagnosis of Jitterbug. I believe it was because they didn’t want people to see the video of a very sick precious puppy they sold to me for $3,500.US) But I sent them the digitalized x-ray’s, vet’s report, youtube video and picture’s of her deceased. I fought back against the Smith’s hurtful, nasty email’s, but Stella just told me to go to HELL! We loved Jitterbug so much we didn’t want her to die in vein, so we felt she deserved to have her story told to warn others about buying puppies from backyard breeders on the internet. We are truly thankful now that we save (rescue) Jitterbug from further suffering in Stella Smith’s care.
Jitterbug’s x-ray’s are on youtube, they show her diagnosed condition, with continuation of Jitterbug’s story. I’ve been asked permission by someone at a Veterinarian School to use Jitterbug’s youtube video’s at the school, which to us is an honour to Jitterbug. (Rawhide143)

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