Complaint Review: Wizard Of Claws - Pembroke Pines Florida

I know I'm a little late to your post, however I just read it. I copied and pasted a portion of your post that caught my attention: "on Saturday November 13, she received her puppy at the San Diego Airport. Immediately the puppy was lethargic. We contacted Wizard of Claws and spoke to someone there who attributed it to jet lag. This was on a Monday since they were closed on the weekend. The puppy continued to be lethargic and have no energy. It was also having trouble breathing. On Friday November 19, my other sister rushed the puppy to the emergency vet after he started running into the walls and collapsing." Dog arrived on Saturday (11/13), contacted WOC on Monday (11/15)and finally took the dog to the emergency vet on Friday (11/19). Why did you wait 6 days to take the puppy to the emergency vet when from the time it arrived at the airport you said "immediately the puppy was lethargic." I understand you stated you called WOC and they apparently said that it was due to jet lag. However, whether you spoke to WOC or not (parties disagree whether Buyer contacted Seller in reference to the canines health) why would you take their word mainly since they are not licensed vets? I'm not accusing you of "killing" the dog, so please don't get me wrong. I have a dog (which I bought from WOC in 2004 and haven't had any health issues)and when he has seemed a little slow I have taken him to the vet that day. Luckily, on these few occasions its been nothing more than minor stomach upset. However, if I didn't go to the vet and have him checked and given nutrients or whatever he could've gotten worse. A dog is not much different than a child. You wouldn't wait till a child is running into the wall or can't sit up before you take it to the doctor if the child looks ill immediately. As I stated in another post, as buyers and owners of animals we must take responsibility ourselves. No one can attest to the appearance of a dogs health at a specific time better than the person whose presence the dog is in, mainly not someone over the phone who's relying on a description of the dogs health. If the dog looked lethargic when you picked it up from the San Diego Airport, at that moment you should've gone to the emergency vet, mainly since the dog was on a 5 hr flight and you thought it was only 8 wks old (2mths). It could've have been dehydrated. On the 6th day of having this puppy your other sister took this dog to the emergency vet. Based on your post, I would assume the dogs health had noticably worsened if it "continued to be lethargic and have no energy" and "it was also having trouble breathing." Your other sister "rushed the puppy to the ermengency vet after it started running into the walls and collapsing." The vet than informed you the dog wasn't 2 months old, instead 4-5 months and that it had pneumonia which caused its lungs to collapse. Its unfortuneate if you were led to believe the dog was younger than it actually was, but being it the case that it was 2-3 months older maybe if it was taken to the vet earlier it would have had a better chance since its body was more developed. I'm still real confused and disturbed by why it took 6 days of, as you described, continued lethargic behavior leading to running into walls and collapsing for this dog to be taken to an emergency vet? Let me add, I have flown with my dog on numerous occassions. Airlines require a health certificate to be issued for the dog to fly indicating all shots have been given and that the dog is in good health at the time of flight. I'm not saying there aren't ways that people may get around this, however, if this dog was in such the condition as you described that it had to be put to sleep within 6 days of its arrival I don't see how it could fly or didn't die on the plane. Also, why is a sister the one that called WOC and why did an older sister take the dog to the emergency vet? I assume shes (owner of the dog) is of age of majority since she was "authorized" the vet to put your dog to sleep. -- P

In your last response, you said that you were looking for a "girlfriend" for your Griffon. Does that mean that you intend to breed them? If so, would you, if you haven't already, please consider doing health/genetic testing on both of them? Griffons suffer from several different health disorders including cataracts, PRA, and luxating patellas. If you want to insure that the puppies are as healthy as they can be, the testing is the best way to do that. If you are not looking to breed them or have already done the recommended testing, please excuse my assumptions.

In your last response, you said that you were looking for a "girlfriend" for your Griffon. Does that mean that you intend to breed them? If so, would you, if you haven't already, please consider doing health/genetic testing on both of them? Griffons suffer from several different health disorders including cataracts, PRA, and luxating patellas. If you want to insure that the puppies are as healthy as they can be, the testing is the best way to do that. If you are not looking to breed them or have already done the recommended testing, please excuse my assumptions.

In your last response, you said that you were looking for a "girlfriend" for your Griffon. Does that mean that you intend to breed them? If so, would you, if you haven't already, please consider doing health/genetic testing on both of them? Griffons suffer from several different health disorders including cataracts, PRA, and luxating patellas. If you want to insure that the puppies are as healthy as they can be, the testing is the best way to do that. If you are not looking to breed them or have already done the recommended testing, please excuse my assumptions.

In your last response, you said that you were looking for a "girlfriend" for your Griffon. Does that mean that you intend to breed them? If so, would you, if you haven't already, please consider doing health/genetic testing on both of them? Griffons suffer from several different health disorders including cataracts, PRA, and luxating patellas. If you want to insure that the puppies are as healthy as they can be, the testing is the best way to do that. If you are not looking to breed them or have already done the recommended testing, please excuse my assumptions.

My comment remains the same I just want him to know I am referring to them that's all! You would be better off looking for Dorothy!!!

To the idiot who responded my comment you should research or ask question before you "a*s"ume my puppy was in my care when it got hit by a car. I left my dogs in the care of someone like you and when I got back in town I was less one puppy. Like I said before I have a healthy three years old brussels and am looking for him a girlfriend. Find someone else to insult because unlike you I am very inteligent and informed and know how to find the puppy I am looking for.

S.N. : Just thought I would put my thoughts on your comment. I understand totally where you are coming from, I really do about purchaseing puppies/animals over the internet. I would have to admit, we purchased a puppy from a breeder in Washington State over the internet, it was a total dissaster, the puppy was sick, had intestinal virus, etc., and ended up dying, a real heart break for my family, but a few months later, we ventured out again, and purchased from a breeder over the internet. This was totally opposite from our first experience! The breeder was not only nice, and understanding, she provided vet reference, she talked to us extensively on the puppy , we had a good "feeling" about her. She provided an excellent guarantee, a 48 return free policy, no questions asked! So, we proceeding, though still cautious from our first experience, and went ahead with it. We are thrilled to death, never had a problem, the breeder even now after several months, still drops us an email from time to time, checkes on the puppy, offers advice on the puppy and any matters we have, so it was a really nice experience. So you can find good honest breeders out there, we did! I wanted to mention to be careful with Wizard of Claws, they purchase their pups from Missouri mainly, which is known too be the puppy mill capitol of the world! I posted this on a seperate message, so it could be seen better too! Hope it helps people when looking to buy a puppy from them! Word of people , will eventually egt around, and this wizard of claws company will/can be put out of business.

Singing the praises of WOC. But not to worry, this is a very bright human. She let her SMALL DOG get hit and killed by a car. Now THAT is great companion animal ownership. Makes me want to throw up. I'll bet you will replace that poor thing and the Powers That Be help the next little creature that lives in your care. To the OP, I have said this many times before DO NOT purchase any living being over the Internet. If the poor thing wasn't sick BEFORE you got him/her, the travel they have to go through alone is trauma enough to kill them. DO NOT purchase any living creature on a whim. DO NOT purchase any living creature without first visiting the breeder IN PERSON, veryifying his/her information andn getting a SIGNED CONTRACT. People who purchase animals over the Internet encourage puppy mills and poor breeding. Our shelters runneth over now with unwanted animals. Stop encouraging the bad guys. If your puppy was sick on arrival from the breeder/pet store/whatever, and your vet will verify it, THEN REPORT THEM TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE. Get them shut down. It is difficult to do when you are long distance (in your case all the way across the country) but keep yelling until you get a response.

My heart goes out to anyone whose pet had to be put to sleep. But I'm a very happy customer of WOC. I have purchased two dogs from them that are very healthy. A brussel whose just turned three earlier this month and a chihuahua who was hit by a car so he is no longer with me. But I do plan on getting another dog from them this x-mas. In there defense I use to work for a vet also and on a daily basis we had pups come in lethargic and with other issue due to their owners. Hear me out alot of our customers purchase dogs for their kids or they lead a very busy lifestyle and don't have the time some pups need. If you know anything about pets you learn that the smaller they are the more attention they need and alot of times they don't get it. I'm also sorry that your vet took advantage of you because of your state of mind. Alot of times working in the vet office pups would come in half dead because their glucose level would go down (they have to be fed every four hours) we would administer some sugar and they were fine. Remember vets are in it to make money and then sometimes it is easier for them to tell you to put your pet down and that is not the only alternative. The only thing I could suggest to some of you is to become more informed about what you are doing. You wake up in the morning see this cute puppy and then you want one. But you don't know the first thing about taking care of them. I'm know for a fact that I'm not the only happy customer they have. They have a big celebrity following that have purchased multiple pups from them. There was a princess from another countrry that purchased multiple pups from them and they are all happy still placing orders. I'm a business owner myself and what I have learned is that you can't please everyone.

Hey, Ken from New York, don't you have anything better to do than stick your nose in the middle of something you allegedly have no first hand knowledge of? I suspect you do know the Anderson's, not that it really matters. Your comments are insulting to women everywhere, however, I do want to thank you for using this particular forum to show off your ignorance. Why should anyone feel they have anything to prove to you? There are so many people who have been hurt by their experiences with WOC and you may appreciate this Ken, they're not all women. Again, thanks for sharing your opinion about something you have zero knowledge of. Sorry you're so bored,try volunteer work.

A greatful THANK YOU to VERA from Live Oaks for speaking out. I know who you are and you know me. We shared tears and difficult moments, I will always be greatful for your support. You were there when we got the news from James Andersons vet that our little male had died and you were there when we had no choice but to put our little female down at your office. Thank goodness for you and a staff like no other, the best of the best. No James, no Ken from New York with no first hand knowledge, we didn't just decide to put her down on a whim. She wasn't able to absorb any nutrients from her food because of her medical condition, the one Anderson and Dr. Stone insisted she didn't have. Her intestines were liquifying, she was suffering and only perhaps hours from death. "Wizard of Claws" never again, not even for free. It certainly wasn't worth our heartbreak or the memory of watching those helpless precious puppies suffer and die. Been there, done that and left with the belief that they really are wizards, Wizards of Profit. I'll tell you what, I have a special wish for the Andersons. I wish that in the next life James and Gilda come back as breeder bitches at a puppymill. Spending all of their lives in a cage exposed to the elements, living in their own feces and never feeling the grass under their feet or the sun on their faces. Never knowing human touch or love, never having the chance to play, just banging out one litter after another. Do you think there is a separate heaven for dogs, or do you think all souls meet? You never know. Uh oh, I wouldn't want to be them. Let's not forget, there is someone who knows the truth, who really does know your heart. We'll all be accountable to him someday. Like I said, uh oh, I wouldn't want to be them.

The gentleman that responded into the middle of this is way off base to come in and more or less accuse people of slandering "Wizard of Claws". I KNOW FOR FACT medically what a few of these reported puppies went through as I worked at the emergency/specialty practice that they ended up at. These ripped off owners that paid not only with their pocket books but with their hearts. The true victims are the buyers. YES. THERE IS PROOF IN THAT HOSPITAL FILING that Wizard of Claws is selling sick puppies and is not fulfilling obligations. I too have NEVER purchased a puppy for them nor do I EVER intend to!

Simply wow... that's all i can say after reading the numerous responses about "wizardofclaws" I had no intention of coming to this site to write a comment or complaint, but after reading what you people (or maybe just 2 or 3 angry old women who live in NYC who are lonely because their husband cheated on them and their childen dont talk to them anymore) have nothing better to do than write this malicious crap. Simply put.... crap. *I have never met or purchased a dog from Wizard Of Claws or the Andersons. 1. The story about putting your puppy to sleep. OK, You get your vet that advised you to put your dog to sleep to write a letter, sign it, WITH his vet certification tags and license number on this website.... and then we'll talk. Until then... it's just crap. -Um ya... Oprah was also abducted by aliens and taken to another planet. It's true... really, because i say it is. Get my drift?! *I have never met or purchased a dog from Wizard Of Claws or the Andersons. 2. I find it interesting that MOST (not all of course), but most of these responses are not as much informative or forwarning, but more malicious, spiteful, and slanderous. There are so many vicious emotions here. I understand a few of you are upset, but please... bring actual facts to the table. Print out the vet bills, vet description with current and accurate vet contact information. Any true, honest, and "real" vet would be more than willing to have his findings on this site. FACTS FACTS FACTS *I have never met or purchased a dog from Wizard Of Claws or the Andersons. 3. Yup, maybe Jim Anderson has a record. Do you know how many political figures have records as well... or had records until they bought the file. Bill Gates has a record. Why dont you all start a campaign against him on the web. Do you know he gives hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in charities each year. Ah, but who cares... he has a past criminal record. Lets burn him at the stake too. Oh wait... wizardofclaws donates many resources to local and national charities as well. hhhmmmnnn interesting concept here. So please tell me what Mr Andersons past record has anything to do with a tiny dog sold years later. Now if you told me Jim Anderson was sent to prison for physically beating animals (with pictures and police reports of course) I would be commenting on this issue differently.*I have never met or purchased a dog from Wizard Of Claws or the Andersons. 4. HUMMER ANYONE? Jesus... if i had that money i would drive a different color Lamborgini every day of the week. The car i drive doesnt make me a bad person... I dont exactly like the fact that Mr anderson drives a big SUV HUMMER. The amount of gas and toxins that thing puts out is astronomical. We should rally behind the that as well. Let's contact the President and inform him James Anderson is single handedly destroying the atmosphere. (Wait, we cant do that... George Bush Jr has a record as well.) Hey, who am i to judge. Maybe he doesnt even drive it and he actually gets carted around in a limo. oh my god.... lets hang him! The jerk rides in a limo.*I have never met or purchased a dog from Wizard Of Claws or the Andersons. 5. All i can do is laugh about this big bad dark scary room that no one has ever seen, but a few pissed off people on this site. It's real easy to stir up emotions when (i'm not going to say lies... because i actually think that maybe some of you truly think you've "seen" this room in some out of body/mind experience) *Did we forget to take our Lithium today* and if you truly believe it... it cant be a lie to yourself. Describe it again for me please. It was dark, dreary, ooooh sooo cold, damp, spoooky, oooooooh. The sounds, the horrible sounds. HOLY COW! Someone call Stephen King, let's sell him the rights for his new book. Wait, i think he's already written about that. Hey, did you know Stephen King has a record as well. Shucks, i guess we all can never buy his books again. Bring pictures of this room to the table. FACTS FACTS FACTS. Hey, i heard you store bodies in your basement and have stacks of "JUGS" magazines in your closet as well. Really, you do...because i say you do. *I have never met or purchased a dog from Wizard Of Claws or the Andersons. 6. If and when someone comes on this site to respond to a complaint, as both the Andersons did, and other various happy customers and other concerned patrons... lashing out against them and verbally attacking them does no good. If you had a problem or still have a problem and they didnt listen to you, i'm sure they are listening now. Let them respond, morally, ethically, and factually. I hope you will do the same.*I have never met or purchased a dog from Wizard Of Claws or the Andersons. There's just so much i could go on and on. I read other complaint forums and find there arent many personal attacks and ficticous crap. It's more of an informative area for people with real fact, real complaints, and concerns to come and explain there experiences. I dont believe this site was built for the purpous you people are manipulating it for. Well, i hope not. There's enough BLOG Reports and chat rooms for that kind of crap. So please, if you truly have a complaint, discuss it, explain it, and most importantly, bring the facts to the table from the professionals, then back up there facts with pictures. And no... not the pictures from JUGS Magazine that you have stacked in your closet. I am not defending WizardOfClaws so to speak... i am merely stepping back and looking at the other side of the picture. Let everyone speek, and respectfully comment to truly find a solution.*I have never met or purchased a dog from Wizard Of Claws or the Andersons. My name is Kenneth Delin I have never met the Andersons. I have never purchased a dog from the Andersons. I do NOT have a record. I do NOT have bodies in my basement. I do NOT read JUGS Magazine. I drive a fuel economy BMW, but if the Andersons wish to purchase me a Black Lamborgini Diablo VT with tan leather.... i would glady accept it. Thank you all for your time... I eagerly await the reviewing of actual facts.

Dear Sunia, I know haow you feel. I bought a puppy 4 weeks ago that came down with kennel cough and regardless of the antibiotics she took EVERYDAY, she stilled ended up with pneumonia with in the next 7 days. When this man "James" says it only got sick becuase of your neglect is, in reality possible, but considering your emotional responses, far from the truth. I'm really sorry as well, that your vet left you no alternative as far as the care of this dog. The ER vets I had taken my 11 wk pup to said it would cost 6,000-???? to save her and that was no quarentee. I took her home after only 14 hours at the ER cause I fiqured if she was to die it would be in my arms not their cold cage. I used a "Vicks Vaporizor" and ran "only hot" water in the shower for steam, took her in for 15min. 5x's a day or more. Feed her chicken broth, baby food anything I could get her to eat, but most of all, I HELD HER, LOVED HER, TALKED TO HER ALL THE TIME. The point her is with in only 3 days of the vet report my pup gained "2 POUNDS" and is running around happy now! My personal vet (not the ER one) said it was amazing! She was so sick she should be dead but becuase of my affection and personal care she survived. He also stated that it was nothing he had done to heal her it was only what I had done! In the furture if you decide to get a new pup, don't let anyone tell you to put it to sleep. Take it home with you and nurse it back to health like only "YOU" can because you are the one that loves this dog......not the vet! Again, I'm sorry about your loss and hope this will help you in the future. Robin

You know what Gilda or James (or which ever criminal or felon this may be), you are sick. You make me sick. My sister is not mentally ill. I am a law student and my sister (who originally bought the puppy) is the manager of a bank. I would say that you are mentally ill. My sister CALLED you from the vet's office and told you what was going on. We had the vet right there who was willing to speak to you about the condition of the puppy. Not only did you send us the WRONG DOG, you knowingly sent us a SICK dog. You knew this would happen. These are your sad excuses as to why the dog was sick: 1- We didn't feed the dog. Good one. The dog was sick because his lungs were collapsing due to second stage pneumonia. This does not happen in a weeks time. WE HAVE THE VET REPORT to back up our story. What do you have? Nothing but your countless lies. By the way, if we didn't feed the dog, it would have died from starvation, not pneumonia. Why would a vet put a hungry dog to sleep? Why wouldn't the vet just feed it? I think a 4 year old can come up with something better than that. 2- We crated him. If we had crated him so much as you say, he would have had an abundance of energy, not lack of it. He was lethargic because he was sick, not sad. His lungs must have collapsed due to sadness. Another good one, James. Your excuses are unbelievable as to how flimsy they are. Obviously you forget that we still have the vet reprt. The vet report that I faxed to you 3 times. By the way I said my sister made a mistake by buying from a bunch of second rate criminals like you, James. If you think that my family is mentally ill, that's fine. I will show you how mentally ill we really are when we see you in court. Florida law may let convicted felons like you operate a business, but honey I live in California and that just doesn't fly here. I love that you say that you LOVE animals. How many times have you been charged and CONVICTED of violating the Animal Welfare Act???? By the way, you must be sick in the head to think that we would spend over a THOUSAND dollars on a dog, just to kill it. I never read your responses to other people's complaints. You have no validility. Enjoy your business while it lasts because I AND MANY OTHERS WILL PUT YOU OUT OF BUSINESS. I promise you that. You will be hearing from me. Good day Sunia

Jim you said- "God knows that Wizard of Claws would have reimbursed every single penny to save that puppy or for the medical bills. But NO SHE JUST KILLED HIM, she just put the puppy to sleep." If I recall, and believe me I do, when I called you about the medical bills for my puppy, you said "I would never spend that kind of money on a dog". I too thought you would honor your contract. You have never reimbursed one cent in medical to me. In fact, I don't recall anyone that I've come in contact with having been reimbursed for medical by you. Also, you are claiming this lady killed her own puppy....Funny you told me that too. I wonder how many others you have blamed for their sick puppies. Your website claims that you are against puppymills. That couldn't be further than the truth. You purchase from brokers/breeders who have hundreds if not thousands of dogs on the premises, in cramped cages, exposed to the outside elements. They are puppy farmers. You claim you do not support breeding females more then once a year. Please tell us who these breeders are. Prove it. You purchase from breeders that breed closely, within the same bloodline. The problem is the public doesn't see the paperwork for the puppy until long after they purchase, if then. They are not what the public would call "select breeders" as you do. You pay very little for the puppies and sell them for thousands. In fact, some of your puppies are priced so outrageous, that people think they are getting a better or higher quality puppy. Jim and Gilda, if you have proof that these things are not true, please provide it and prove that I am wrong, or that anyone else that has posted here is wrong.

James Anderson loves animals so much that the USDA has charged him 3 times with violating the Animal Welfare Act and he was found guilty in 2003. I do not know the person or the cirsumstances in this original post, but knowing Mr. Anderson's history with violations of the Animal Welfare Act, the class action lawsuit against him and Wizard of Claws and the fact that they lie about buying puppies from brokers like the Hunte Corporation, I would say it's James Anderson who is the liar.

I wonder how there are customers like this particular DOG KILLER- this puppy was fine, in fact they had the dog for a week and I can't control if they feed their dog or not. But all we know for sure is that they killed their dog.- YES KILLED HER DOG. How sick is that. I James Anderson, have NEVER every heard of a customer or another animal lover ever putting their puppy to sleep right away because they are lethargic. Everyone that we know including the people reading this would agree that you would not put a puppy to sleep for no reason. You will try to save the puppy and have your vet save the dog. But like the customer said I was not going to spend any money on this dog. This client is a liar, she did not call us before. If she had called and told us that there was something wrong with her puppy, God knows that Wizard of Claws would have reimbursed every single penny to save that puppy or for the medical bills. But NO SHE JUST KILLED HIM, she just put the puppy to sleep. Then her sister calls WIzard of Claws to get another puppy. We told her NEVER.. First of all they should have fed their dog, if their puppy did not eat they should have been concerned and called us for advice, but no they didn't do anything. According to the customer they had the puppy in a crate a lot, that's not right. PUppies need exercise, maybe the dog was sad because it was locked up. who knows.... Why is the owner of the dog not the one complaining in this forum???? The reason why she is not and the one complaining in this forum and is her sister is because the owner is mentally ill. We know this because her sister told us and she admitted that because her sister is mentally right, she MADE A MISTAKE>>>>>>>>> these are the sisters words................. So how dare you come in this forum and say that you were ripped off. I would NEVER EVER SELL YOU OR GIVE YOU ANOTHER PUPPY TO KILL... I love animals and you make me sick................. THis was answered by WIzard of Claws. If anyone reading these lies have any questions, call me and I will explain- people change the stories for their benefit, but it's always easy to defend the truth... we do right to our customers..............

Another victim has set up a website of where to file complaints and to warn other people. The most important are the first four, but you should try and file complaints with everyone that's listed. Jim, the owner of Wizard of Claws is a convicted felon and the more complaints the officials receive, the more likely someone will listen. There is also contact information for the class action attorney, Good Luck!

Please read all the posts here regarding Wizard of Claws. You will find a press release posted with contact information for Marcy LaHart, a Florida attorney who is handling a lawsuit against Wizard of Claws.