I'm angry tonight.I'm sick too, a have a stress headache, and it's making me more upset.
Okay, here's the scoop. God. I feel like a complete freaking fool.
This evening I had to drive Daughter and a friend into the city for a birthday party, and wait around to drive them home too. So, to kill some time I went to a new pet store in town to have a look around. I actually went in to see if I could buy a replacement tray for Pepai's crate since she ate the last tray bottom thingy....
Anyway, after visiting THAT store, and still having an hour left to kill, I went to the other pet store, the one that we bought Pepai from. **still hanging head in shame for buying a dog at a pet store**
When I peeked at the dogs I got a huge slap in the face. I found Pepai's twin. An absolute spitting image dog, brindle, except this little fella didn't have the white markings on the chest. He was pretty cute and I talked to him for a few minutes, and then looked at his price tag. It said $999. I paid $1499 for Pepai.
Okay. THAT wasn't the kick in the teeth....that came when I saw his breed was Lab/Boxer....
Wait one cotton-picking second.....my mind was suddenly flooded with past conversations.
HUBBY: She doesn't LOOK like a Boxer.
ME: Of course she does.
HUBBY: No. She doesn't look like a full Boxer.
ME: (thinking...she damn well better be for $1499)
NEIGHBOR1: A Boxer? Are you SURE?
NEIGHBOR2: A PUREBRED Boxer?
FATHER: Well, that doesn't look like any Boxer I've ever seen before.....
CLIENT: That wasn't exactly how I pictured her to look....
DAMN IT ALL TO HELL!!!!!!!!!
We've been suckered.....
I paid $1500 for a mutt.
A very lovable mutt, nonetheless....but a mutt just the same.
So, I approached an unsuspecting associate at the pet store and engaged him in a conversation about the little puppy in the store, and then blindsided him with my pictures on my camera phone of Pepai, my Lab/Boxer mix...
He agreed with me 100%. She is not a Boxer. He said that I should be compensated for this. Those were his words, not mine.
How the fuck do you compensate this?!
I wanted a Boxer. I paid for a Boxer.
And now, I am so in love with her, but I feel so strange and lied to, and deceived and angry.....I would have never paid $1500 for a Lab/Boxer, nor would I have paid $999, or probably any amount of money. I wanted a Boxer....
I left my contact information for "Karen" whoever the fuck "Karen" is, and I will be hearing from her on Monday. I kind of feel sorry for "Karen", because nothing is going to make up for this, there is not a thing in the world that she can do to make me happy right now. Not even if she gave me a full refund for Pepai. I was lied to. I was duped into something. The puppy was misrepresented.
I always thought she just needed to grow a bit more, then her snout wouldn't seem so long. And I thought that some day her ears were going to perk up and she could have animated conversations with me using only those ears....but it will never happen. No amount of growing up will ever turn her into what I thought we paid for. She is a mixed-breed dog, and not that I don't love mixed-breed dogs...but that isn't what I paid for.
I am so fucking mad....
I have this huge pounding stress-headache.
So, if Karen does not offer me a full refund, I will take all of my papers from Pepai's purchase, all those papers marked "BOXER" and signed by the manager, and I will see them in small claims court.
Damn it all....
I was going to write an entry all about the day I had at the beach, the hot sunshine and the house I'll be going to view tomorrow....but instead I'm only focused on gouging the eyes out of Pet's Unlimited.....
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