We arrived at a house in Tatsfield in Westherham, Kent to view a Maine Coon kitten we
had seen online and discussed via email with a breeder going by the name of
Jackie Newark. When we finally found the house at the end of dirt track, our
first encounter was with a huge dog which was barking like crazy from behind a
gate leading up to the house. We subsequently learned that Ms Newark had been charged after her dog killed a pet rabbit.
Eventually the woman emerged and let us in to the
house. We were left in a smelly room before she came back with the kitten we had
seen online. I was concerned that the kitten had not been vaccinated or
neutered. I was also somewhat put off by the fact that she was willing to let
all of her kittens go aged just eight weeks, when the experts say that these
kittens should stay with their mothers until the age of 12 weeks. However she assured
me that none of this was a problem.
We were running out of options and the kitten was beautiful so we put down a
£100 deposit. Everything was going swimmingly until two or three weeks later - on the
morning we were due to pick him up!
First I recieved an email saying he couldn't be collected for a few days due
to a problem with his eye. Then came an email from Ms Newark saying that her father had been taken ill
and she needed to wait for the x-ray results before we could collect the
kitten.
She then went quiet for a day or two, ignoring all of my emails asking what was going on and when we could finally collect him. I then received the following email:
"I've decided to keep the kitten here with mum for a bit longer... So
I'm going to give you your deposit back..."
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