Our darling Piper who was only in our lives about ten months but will live in our hearts forever. Our friends had an English Bulldog that my children and I just fell in love with and I made a deal with my three children that if they saved up half of the price I would put in half and we could get an English Bulldog puppy. They started saving it took almost three years for them but they never wavered about what they wanted and each month a little more went into there "puppy jar".

In the mean time we had our home destroyed by Hurricane Rita and were living from place to place with just our bare necessities until a rent home finally became available about two months before we bought our puppy. For any of you that has never been displaced by a natural disaster you can't imagine what the word displaced feels like. So, we finally had a temporary home, the puppy jar had about a thousand dollars in it, our real house was slowly but surely being put back together and I thought a new pup that they had been wanting and working for, for so long would be just the boost we all needed.

So, we started shopping and with not much luck. I could not find any local breeders that had any pups or plans of having any for months. My children were really discouraged and I turned to the internet. My first few inquiries into some were very leery. They wouldn't give me there names or numbers or send me recent pictures. Then I found epupppro.com and I called Danielle. She told me about her pups and how her children just loved the one we were inquiring about. She told me how her little girl would be so sad to see this one certain pup go. The interesting part here is I found out later our pup was never even kept at Danielle's house! Never been at her house, but she even told me stories of her children playing with her. The day I met her was the day she went and picked it up from the airport!

Not knowing any better and completely fooled by thinking I was talking to a decent "soccer mom" as myself. I bought our baby and sent my nephew to meet Danielle half way. We all fell in love with Piper from day one but my husband and I had concerns as did our local vet. She was undernourished, and had a bacteria infection that caused a yucky discharge after she urinated that our vet said was caused from standing or sitting in feces or dirty kennels. It took two rounds of antibiotics to cure that infection. But, we were still so in love with her. She stole our hearts.

Only a few months passed and when she was about four months old one morning as my children were getting ready for school Piper being her very curious self was usually walking from room to room watching them or pulling on there pants legs but that morning she had not moved off her bed. We were in a hurry and I took them to school and when I got back she still had not moved. After realizing something was really wrong we took her straight to the vet. This was the when we found out from two different vets that she had NO HIP SOCKETS. None! I couldn't believe it when I looked at the x-rays. She had nothing to hold her legs in place. It was finally hurting her because she was getting bigger and had put on a little weight. In the two days of vet visits her bowels became compacted because she could not stand to use the restroom and she had to have surgery immediately or she was going to die. ( According to Danielle if I would have just let her die then she would have replaced her.) She went through weeks of learning to walk again. We took turns holding her rear legs up with a towel looped under her rear to help her walk and she was a trooper.

She came through with flying colors although they told us she would never be as active as she was before. We had about three more good months with her then, we started noticing what I would call blisters on her skin. They increased at a rapid pace our vet of twenty years could not believe how fast and furious they came about. It was Démodé mites but apparently Piper had no immune abilities to fight them off. She was covered in pussie scabs that hurt her so bad. We all helped doctor her, I took off from work to care for her. She ended up losing most of her hair all in about a month. After one particularly bad night of Piper in so much pain that she just layed and whimpered she could no longer even sleep my sons just sat by her crying.

The vet told us she would only get worse, we made the decision to put her down. It was a terrible experience that my children had to go through. Poor Piper suffered so much in her short little life. I kept Danielle informed throughout and from the start she lied, to me and others. I never asked her to pay my vet bills as she accused me of. I signed everything she asked me to and sent her all documentation that I was supposed to. She is an evildoer for sure. She is getting rich at the expense of families like ours and at the expense of these little dogs that are in pain. I can't imagine doing what Daniel of epuppypro.com has done. I honestly can't imagine putting people through that much less putting families with children through it. Not to mention, these dogs with all these genetic problems and foreign diseases coming into our country. What will that do to the breed here in the U.S. Do you think she cares about that?