31/12/2021
Please Think before leaving a nasty Review.
The Story:
I had homed a kit to you, did all my usual checks and bought the kit to you myself. Such a lovely home and was beyond happy. You signed a contract and received a copy. A few months down the line, you contact me telling me the kit isn’t getting along with your other ferrets. I kept in close contact with you and I gave you the best advice I could give you. Still wasn’t getting any better. I offered you this. I said to you I am more than happy to have your kit back with me for a few weeks/ months while I try and Introduce him to my ferrets in hope he will learn to behave and learn to get along with other ferrets. I said to you in the meantime, have a think wether you would like him back, want me to rehome him following my usual new contract and home check etc or wether you want me to keep him at my ferretry. I also offered you the choice of keep having him back and forth to keep trying to reintroduce him to your group in hope that after time he will behave with them. I took him to mine and had him for several weeks free of charge, I paid for all his food (complete minces) and toys etc. I I did say to you that even though he was in my care, the ferret still remains solely your ferret! You have the final say on what happens. I was just essentially minding him for a while for you. I was doing this as it’s my job to help you if you have had a kit from me and I will always offer my support and ferretry when needed and it is never any trouble for me at all. I contacted you many times letting you know how he was doing and After several weeks you contact me saying “I have had a think and it’s best you keep him” I was more than happy to do so and told you that I will keep him at my ferretry as he has really settled in well and to rehome him again wouldn’t be fair at all. I got another message from you days later “I appreciate what you have done, I understand I won’t get my deposit back but can I have a refund for the ferret” I kindly sent you a message back explaining why you wouldn’t receive your money back and why that is quite rude to ask, especially when I have gone to every effort I could to help you and looked after him for many weeks and also out of my own pocket paid for his kibble , toys and raw diet which isn’t cheap. I also explained that you did own him for many months before I took him into my care and that in the contract is states that only if there is something genetically wrong with the ferret or a deformity would you revive a full refund and then come back into my care. To leave the review “such a terrible breeder, only in it for the money” is unkind and not true. I am not annoyed or frustrated at you or the situation I just think It would be a good idea to post. I won’t mention names or the ferret as ethically it not being right to do so. My aim of this Post is only to say please be nice, please think before you place a bad review on a page when I can’t remove it and especially when you haven’t told the full story. My ferrets are my pets firstly and when I care for them so much as breed purely out of wanting to see my pets produce their own I really didn’t want last breeding season so be how it was and to ruin the fun and enjoyment out of why I do it.
This breeding season has not been enjoyable. I just hope next year I can just annoy the process, enjoy spending time with my ferrets and their kits and focus more on them than trying to please everybody which this year has shown me isn’t possible.
To all the other homes my kits went to, you are amazing! All of you have given them remarkable homes and I couldn’t be more happier.
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