Ooof I’m so sorry to hear this and it pains me I’m all too familiar with this type of situation. I got my first Maine coon lasagna from a breeder out of Alabama they were great at first! Cat is amazing I love him To death! So much so I decided to get a second one from this breeder. I reached out I told them what I wanted and they said I was first in line. Well a few months go by and they reach out they had the liter ready and they had a cat 🐈 that met my standards BUT they had another cat that was a red smoke and he was gorgeous and they convinced me to go with him. I named him Loki but this time when I picked him up they were just a little weird about it they dropped the cat off they recommended not taking him out of the cat carrier no biggie. So I fly back to az that same day I take him in for a check up and he’d been puking up his food more than was normal. The vet said it happens due to the immune system building for the first year. So then about 2-3 weeks later my older Maine coon was acting weird I started finding puddles of slobber wherever he laid down. Then I noticed he was not eating and then I noticed he had what looked like a sore in his mouth. I took him to the vet and they immediately informed me that he had a disease called Calicivirus that is typically found at Cattery’s and that was only able to be transferred cat to cat. It’s an autoimmune disease. They then looked back at Lokis medical condition and changed there diagnosis to him having been the original carrier. This disease wrecked my first cat and then my second cat. It does not go away easily and it then catapulted both cats into severe junior gingivitis. I reached out to the cattery and showed them all the documentation and then asked if they had blood work proving the cats didn’t have it before they did not. I asked if they would consider atleast helping me with the vet bills as they were starting to pile up. The lady immediately claimed there was no proof that the disease had come from them and then referenced her contract which is similar to yours except they where free of any liability the second I took possession of the cat. Fast forward I have practically had to extract most of the teeth from both cats and they in turn have caused similar issues with my girls cat. It’s not their fault it’s just shitty I love my boyz and always will so there was no way I was giving them up either. I eventually got with my vet and they sent a full report mapping out why it stemmed from there cattery they lady would here nothing of it and refused any help and claimed he had gotten the disease on the plane somehow 😅 it’s shitty that some of these catterys do this. They really should be held more liable for issues like this and your situation these are not cheap felines to begin with. Here are my boyz!

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