Laurie M.

Found our first dachshund puppy to adopt in January- communicated with breeder weekly as she sent updates and pictures. She was very helpful in answering all questions promptly and sounded very legit. A month before we were to get our puppy she messaged me and said she took him to vet for worming and next day he didn't look well. She took him back to the vet and vet told her to take him back home to be with mother dog. She said he passed away overnight and he passed from fading puppy syndrome. Never hearing about that I goggled it and thought well maybe that was what happened. She said in 5 years she had been breeding dachshunds she never had that happen. I asked if our puppy was the only one who passed and she said yes. She offered to refund money or we could use that deposit to have first choice on next liter- we decided we'd pick another one from next liter. She said they were due any day but after 10 days and checking on when they were coming she said they were born. We picked out another male black and tan because she said there were 4 in this liter. We got weekly updates for 3 weeks because they were born Feb6th. Mind you these messages which started back in January were on a continuing thread on gooddog messages. This past Saturday the messages were all gone and she blocked me because I couldn't reach her in any way- everything I tried to send would not go through. I set up another good dog account through my husbands email and name spelled differently to see if I could contact her through that. It worked- I inquired about new liter pups that she had and got many replies.
This breeder is obviously not legit!, what is Good Dog going to do about my 300$ deposit and fees initially paid in January?