El Dorado

  Candy (Lucy) died of Distemper a month after we received her..

 Ms. Bianca Suwanasung from www.preciousmaltipoos.com, San Antonio, Texas sold us our puppy on the 10 of January. After we had decided on which puppy we wanted we asked her about the parents. She said they were healthy and that the mom was energetic and the dad was the calmer one, so we bought the puppy. We asked if she could lower the price, and she answered that if we paid in cash she would sell her for less. (From $799 to $700) Then we asked if we could go to San Antonio to pick the puppy up the next day- Sunday the 11th. She responded that she was coming to Houston to bring another puppy to the airport, so she could bring us the puppy. We accepted and the next day we picked her up at a close by mall. She looked normal when we picked her up. Like we were recommended by Bianca, we took her to the vet 1/12/09 where she had a fecal test. The vet said she had coccidia and gave us some medicine. On 1/13/09, one day later, we noticed that she wasn't eating or drinking, and that she had blood in the stool that lasted for a couple of days. The next time we took her to the vet, 1/19/09, she had lost weight. She was tested for giardia which came out negative.

Candy's appetite was very low so we tried several things including mashing the food up into little pieces, changing from Pedigree Puppy Food© to Iams Puppy Food©, and finally we managed her to eat by wetting her food with homemade chicken broth. She had fewer days in which her appetite was low, she gained some weight and started to grow. There were two symptoms that were constant from the very beginning, a short kind of choking cough and discharge coming from the eyes.

She looked better until last Wednesday morning when our son noticed she was having foamy salivation, and things turned ugly very quickly. She started having seizures with involuntary twitching of her leg muscles and jaw movements (chewing gum fits), after which she acted much disoriented. We took her to an emergency center and she was examined and treated overnight but the seizures never stopped.  The next day, on Thursday, we took her to our vet and continued the examination and treatments. Her sugar level in the blood and, the liver were normal. Also, her skull exam was normal.

The vet suspected that Candy had Distemper which left us with no hope and finally we had to let her go. Our vet got a confirmation on her diagnosis from a neurologist at Texas A&M.

When Bianca delivered the puppy to us she had one vaccination done, but not the one against Distemper. Our vet vaccinated her with Distemper/Parvo on January 19 when she was 9 weeks old. However, it is now clear that at that time Candy was already sick.

We talked to Bianca on Thursday and she said she was sorry and that if Candy dies she would give us a new puppy. Yesterday, after we buried her, our daughter discovered in the internet that other families were going through the same painful process. We tried again to contact Bianca but so far we haven't had any luck.

We hope that by sharing our case will prevent other families to suffer emotionally and financially as we have had.

 Brusal

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I have been to Bianca's home a year ago looking for a Maltipoo for an out of state friend. She did not allow me to come over immediately when I called but scheduled a time a day later then tried to push me off another day but I said no, I had already planned to come when we scheduled. I'm sure she ran herself ragged trying to clean up after all the dogs!!!

After seeing the living conditions and so many dogs, I contacted my friend and said 'do not buy a dog from these people'. They were willing to ship a puppy at just 5 weeks old on an airplane, at a price of i believe $249 additional!! I inquired about the safety of shipping such a young puppy but she assured me the cabin pressure in the airplane was for live animals and would be perfectly fine. She had about 9 pens in her kitchen with about 3-4 small puppies in each pen. At least 2 of the puppies were sick with diareah and we were told not to touch them, when we did, she made us wash our hands. One had hair loss on it's head, she said it went to the vet but they couldn't figure it out. On her enclosed patio off of the kitchen she had 2 more pens that were filled with about 10 or more dogs, all different small types she was going to breed. The parents were not on the premises for the maltipoos, she claimed they were at her sister's home. The kitchen smelled very doggy as expected from so many in one confined area. In my opinion she is running a puppy mill. It is not possible one person can take proper care of all those puppies. The poor parents of the puppies must be exhausted with constant breeding which is why she would not produce the parents for us to see. I wish San Antonio would step in and put a stop to this inhumane breeding but no one seems to care. From what I have researched, you can apparently have 10+ puppies in a home if they are in a certain age range so I found myself unable to file any reports.

We were told there were NO REFUNDS, this is a major red flag to potential buyers. To me this means the breeder does not care what happens to the well being of the dog. Her policies were definetly in her favor.

I agree with the poster, do not purchase puppies from Bianca.

If I can be of any help, please feel free to contact me at killersmile@att.net