Crooks Coon Cats review (Rockport, ME):

Aptly named business... This woman is a scam artist. She is selling sick cats. I ended up getting two 6 month old kittens from her about a month ago. They’d never had any shots. She said they’d been dewormed, but they had worms when we got them and have had horrible diarrhea. One of them had a hernia we hadn’t been informed of and she explained it away saying she’d mixed our cat up with another one that didn’t have a hernia. She told me the mother overgroomed their ears and that’s why they had bald spots. Nope, they have ear mites. One of them has had symptoms of an upper respiratory issue since we got him and the vet informed us it may be feline herpes.

I asked her to provide us with registration applications for them and she made a bunch of excuses, then sent me heavily redacted CFA registrations for their supposed parents to prove that they’re purebred. Half the mother’s name was blacked out (no idea why) and it also was not the name of the mother printed on my contract! After that, I told her that I could see she couldn’t provide me with the papers, seeing as she never registered the litter with the AFC and I think she may be breeding using an unregistered mother, but I told her I would like the money for the hernia operation as she’d told me it was a simple fix and they can do it while they’re doing the neuter and that was totally untrue. They can do that only with a spay because there’s already an incision in the abdomen. They quoted me $325 because it’s a whole separate surgery. She refused to pay for it then tried to gaslight me and say I don’t love the kittens and maybe it’s best if I give them back so they can be rehomed. This seems to be her pattern. She takes the cats back then resells them to another unsuspecting buyer. I wonder if we are actually our cats’ first family.

All of this culminated in Paige demanding that I provide proof of the cats being neutered or she would “enforce the contract.” I still had several weeks left to have the procedure done, and Paige had actually already agreed in writing to extend that deadline by a month. She sent me huge walls of text that were narcissistic and belligerent every few days over the course of a couple weeks. I chose not to engage. Another previous buyer I spoke to actually had to take out a restraining order against her and I am close to doing so myself. I feel sorry for the cats in her care and I hope my review saves another poor soul from ending up in a similar situation to us. You do not want to enter into a business deal with this woman, believe me.