Complaint Review: Linda Pisani of TopCatteryPersians - La Crecenta California

First, I want to say how sorry I am that this happened to you, I know it happened a while ago but I still wanted to reach out to you. I hate bad breeder stories like this and have worked very hard over the years to combat these bad experiences with positive ones in my own cattery. When a buyer walks away from a sale such as this type, they should feel proud and happy to own a pedigreed kitty, not disappointed and regretful worrying how they are going to afford all the vet bills they are going to be saddled with. I too experienced a bad transaction with this breeder that not only taught me what to look for, but also what never to do to someone else. Bad breeders like this make the good responsible breeders look bad. It defines the real breeders who care from the backyard breeders. It just takes a few bad apples to ruin the whole bunch! Take heart poster, this irresponsible so-called breeder has closed her doors...for now at least. I hope that due to everyone filing complaints against her and for your report. I would not be surprised though to see her pop up again sometime in the future. Buyers beware if you are going to buy a pedigreed cat or dog make sure you ask for paperwork and proof up front. A responsible breeder should never breed PKD positive cats and should not have them in their breeding program at all, period. A responsible breeder will not deny you this information nor will they deny you the opportunity to look at all of the animals in the home. I purchased a breeding female from another breeder and was told I could not see the rest of the stock and was even told they were in the basement of all places for cats to be! Persians are very sociable sweet cats and need to be around people, not locked in a basement or in cages. Just like Linda, I was told I could not see the other cats. Amazing, you would think I would have learned my lesson with that one. If a breeder tells you that, run away, they have something to hide. We allow our interested clients to walk around our entire home and look at all of the cats we have. We do not hide any of our cats for any reason. Do not accept any excuses of any kind! We also provide negative PKD information and pedigrees on both parents and real verifiable client referrals. Check them out before you buy and make sure you do a search on the internet such as these kinds on all of the catteries you are considering. The breeder in this complaint was supposed to be a reputable one, you and I both found out that was not true. She treated her fellow breeders worse than her other clients especially if she felt they were below her or were newbies to the hobby. We were easy targets for her. Do your homework and research before buying even if that takes a couple of years, it will be worth it in the end. If the kitten or cat is sneezing for any reason or is matted or dirty or the parents are not kept up and healthy do not buy from them. When you visit a cattery, you should be allowed to see how the kitten or cat acts in their environment and how they socialize with each other, you, and your family. If they are in a carrier or a cage when you arrive as ours was with us, you are not going to be able to see how they act. In our case, the girl we purchased was not socialized as she was born and raised in a cage. It took us over two years to get her out of that and she still runs from us sometimes. I visited a cattery where the sire was dirty and heavily matted and was allowed outdoors to mate with the neighborhood females as well as the females in the cattery and all of the cats had fleas! There are plenty of good catteries out there; you do not have to settle. Visit multiple catteries more than once before making a final decision. We tell our interested clients to think about it for a few days and discuss it with your family first. I hope this information has helped whoever is reading it. I hope the buyer from New York did not end up buying the cat from Linda after all. The kitten we got from her was also PKD positive and we had to spay her. We still have her as our family pet but never could breed or place her with another family after we knew she was positive. It is understood that we never did get our money back from her. Good luck to you, I hope it all worked out for you in the end and all the others this breeder has defrauded over the years.