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  • Submitted: 06/16/2010
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Sally McGinnis

Sally Mc Ginnis of Edokko Ocicats

Norfolk, Connecticut

1st Complaint Against:
Breeder: Sally Mc Ginnis
Cattery: Edokko Ocicats Website
Address: 221 Brucy Road
City: Norfolk, Conn 06058
Phone: 860-542-6017 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              860-542-6017      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              860-542-6017      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Complainant: Patricia Lynn
What will satisfy your complaint?
Date/Time: 2007-05-28 14:28:16 PDT


I purchased 2 kittens from Sally McGinnis (Edokko Ocicats) In March of 2007. She told me to send her a check for $300.00 with a balance of $1000.00) to seal the deal. Which I did that very week. She cashed the check, in March 2007.

I was supposed to pick up the kittens (both females ) on June 6th 2007, when they would be old enough. I was really looking forward to bringing them home.

She called a week before I was to pick Up the kittens and told me she changed her mind, and she was keeping the kittens for breeding. Apparently, as the kittens grew older, they were looking better and better to her for breeding , or to sell for more money.

There's also the possibility that she got a better offer from someone else. The reason I think this, is she was always telling me that I was getting a real bargain with these kittens , and that she could have got more money for them.

She said she was sending me a check for $300.00 and said there was nothing I could do about it, that she was keeping the kittens and that was that.

Maybe I?m wrong, but seeing that she cashed the check, doesn't that constitute a closed deal? I told her that I thought that she was being very unethical and unprofessional. I also told her that if she still refused to sell me the kittens, that I would have no recourse but to report this to the CFA, and also to put her name on the Bad Breeders Site.

She said I could do whatever I wanted, and she hung up. I guess she doesn't care if people know about her bad business practices.

If after I bought the kittens, I were to tell her almost 3 months later that I had changed my mind about buying them, she would have told me that she could have sold those kittens many times over. I think she would be very upset, and I wouldn't have got my deposit back.

I would suggest that anyone that buys a cat from Sally McGinnis to get a signed agreement from her, stating that she can?t later change her mind at the last minute and keep the cat that you bought. Thank you, I had to get this off my chest.

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When Miss Lynn was picking out her kittens, I informed her as I do all buyers, that the cat is being sold as a "pet" and not for breeding. This is also in my contract that she would have signed upon picking up the kittens.

Several weeks later, after sending her check, Miss Lynn called me. She told me she cleaned homes for a living, had a bad back and would like to make an easier living breeding cats!

I pointed out that this was not part of our agreement and that I never sell breeding cats, except to established breeders.

The kittens were too young to be spayed before leaving, and Miss Lynn could not guarantee they would remain as pets only.

I told her I would send her full deposit back (which I did) and I also told her that I would not be intimidated by her threat of internet reprisal.

Cats for breeding command a much higher price than "pets" - sometimes it is triple. In spite of this, I have chosen not to sell them as I am a small cattery and do not have the resources to confirm that the other person conforms to my high standards.

I did not sell the two cats to anyone else. I kept them and it's interesting that Miss Lynn never mentions in her review our conflict over breeding rights.

I feel she took advantage out of spite over the fact that I had no computer at the time to reply to this complaint and my daughter has now posted this 8 years later. - Sally McGinnis (posted by Carly McGinnis)
  • dcawn
  • Submitted: 02/07/2016
to the complainer: IF a breeder doesn't went to sell to you at any point in the transaction, it is up to them.. you are crazy to think a breeder has to put their animal in your hands at anytime no matter the reason. Get over it..

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