Puro Amor Cattery

We purchased a Maine Coon kitten DOB 11/01/2020 in early February 2021. The kitten was supposed to be delivered as soon as he reached 16 weeks of age.

The first two videos sent of the kitten did not look like the kitten we had purchased from her website, and we mentioned the disparities. However, we trusted her and the video of what looked like to be a second kitten appeared happy and healthy. The kitten was scheduled to transport on 3/14/21 but was rescheduled to 3/19/21. However, on 3/18/21 we received a call that the kitten did not meet the minimum weight requirement needed to board the plane.

We were told the kitten needed to gain one more pound, and that the kitten needed to be 2300 grams (approximately 5 lbs) in order to fly. In addition, she had told us the kitten was flying from Miami, but the flight details showed the kitten was coming from Ukraine. We asked for additional pictures and video while we waited. It took about a week for her to reply with a strange reason why she was unable to provide a current video: We are waiting for new videos.

Miss was moved to a breeders family member and is not comfortable at new place for the videos. We shall have updated videos in a few days. We appreciate your patience. Currently MUSA is 1850 grams weight with minimum of 2300 grams required to fly."

This is when we started to get suspicious.

I contacted several airlines, including the airline our kitten was supposed to be coming on. There is no weight minimum, only an age minimum. She then claimed that California had extra restrictions, but I researched that as well only to find out what she said was not true. She then said she would book the kitten for 4/6/21, but booked the kitten for 4/12/21, which is 6 weeks past what we were originally told.

She also sent a video of a third cat that did not look like the kitten we originally purchased or the second kitten which she had sent a video of in February. This third kitten was visibly distressed and doesn't look healthy or happy, or like a Maine Coon kitten should look like at 20 weeks old. She said she would provide professional footage of the kitten, but this professional footage also shows a distressed kitten that does not look like the kitten we originally purchased.

We decided to give her another opportunity to make good on her guarantee, we tried to be reasonable; we asked her to send current video and pictures of other Maine Coons from her website, and to send proof of pedigree. Instead, she sent other photos/videos of kittens not on her website and refused to provide proof of pedigree, stating that she only gives a copy of pedigree after we are in possession of the kitten and show proof the cat was spayed/neutered.

We were not asking for the original documents, only to view a copy of the documents. The other media she sent of other kittens appeared much older than 16 weeks old, as this is what we wanted was a 16 week old Maine Coon. We have reason to believe that some of the kittens on her website could be staged/props, and that she doesn't have access to the kittens she claims to have access to.

I thought I had done my due diligence in researching her, but realize now that I had not done enough. She also has many Facebook accounts and different business names (Pure Love Cattery, Puro Amor LLC).

I highly recommend that if you have had a bad experience to report bad businesses. Another helpful website is "Pet Scams" (dot) (com), which provides various ways to help others from being scammed. We have filed a credit card dispute. If we could trust her word, such as the kitten is a pedigree, is happy and healthy, and anything else she claims about the kitten, we would have proceeded with another kitten.

However, she did not try to build confidence when she failed to honor her contractual agreement and was dishonest.

We are very disappointed and heartbroken that we will not be receiving the kitten we had been hoping for and expecting for the last 2 months. My husband aptly referred to the whole experience as emotional terrorism.

The pictures below show the kitten we thought we had purchased (kitten #1), and pictures of the second kitten, and the third kitten (distressed) she tried to deliver to us, which she claimed the footage of all three kittens were the same original kitten.

After reading thru all the reviews, I realized that how we all have experienced similar situation. I will skip some stories that are the same with other reviews.

Long story short, I have checked with Yulia many times before buying, that if the kitten I reserved was a British shorthair, and of course she said yes, its pure British shorthair. But guys, look at the pictures I attached!! Does it look British shorthair to you guys?? and it looks totally different than the picture I saw on the website (it was a very little kitten picture which you cant really tell the breed).

And I asked her for pictures of my kittens parents.

And of course she sent me fake pictures. Why would I pay that amount of money when I could just adopt one from the local shelter if its just a domestic shorthair?

I purchased a kitten from the Pure Love FB page. The kitten died within a few months from FIP, an always fatal disease in cats. The disease is contracted within weeks of birth, generally in places that have multiple cats and unclean conditions.

Pure Love/Puro Amor is not a breeder, she is a broker (kitten mill), her website currently lists 131 kittens of 13 different breeds, an obvious tip off.

When contacted she claimed to have no knowledge of the seller (an admin on her FB page) and told me to write a bad review (so here it is).

Avoid this kitten mill at all costs!!!!!

I also ran into a dishonest seller, the kitten was sick, when I told Yulia about it, she ignored me.She has fake passport documents.it seems that Yulia Gonzalez sells street kittens, makes money from sick kittens

We bought the kitty on February 28th., she was delivered March 3rd with the pet passport. Cat has a microchip that doesnt match the microchip number on the passport.

We have been told that kitty was born 11/15/2020 but when she arrived it surprisingly looked bigger than 3 month old kitten. I texted the number we have been contacting before (832)731-**** with my questions and she was avoiding a direct answer . We took this kitty to vet today and he said that it looks like its close to 6 months old. Depending on teething and her size,but Vet said shes definitely underweight for her age.

Well at least she looked ok as it comes for her first visit to get checked. So now we dont know her DOB and we are really suspicious about those vaccinations records that passport says she has . I honestly think that kitty wasnt well taken care of and I dont even believe that she has been born in Ukraine.

Ill add pictures of texting between me and the seller so you can deside if you want to go forward with this seller. After all the kitty that we got is really affectionate and love her hew home, and well do whatever it takes to feel her stronger.

But I wouldnt be buying anything from them again and I would not recommend anyone to have business with them.

Hello! Everybody is probably very interested in why this company does not have a link for reviews on the site and on Facebook !? Are you looking for reviews and can't find them, right? This is no coincidence, because this cattery, owned by Yulia Gonzalez, is engaged in fraud! First, she will enter you in her trust, promise you an expensive wonderful kitten, then she will show his fake (very beautiful) parents, take a deposit that is much more than what is indicated(in my case she charge me 500$ cash from hands to hands, then I found out that I have to pay only 100$, but that was too late) on her site, well, and after that difficulties will begin .. Then she will let you know that your kitten is imported from another country. Some time later you will ask for photos of your reserved kitten and if you are very lucky, she will discard them after a while. But do not be surprised that the kitten will be completely different from the kitten that you ordered and completely different from the parents, of a completely different color and will look just awful and not thoroughbred! Further, most likely, you will be disappointed, and you will ask for your deposit back, but she will begin to feed you with her rules and policy from the site, that the deposit is not refundable and you must choose another kitten from the site otherwise your deposit will burn ... Ok, you choose a new kitten and at the next day it turns out and she will said you that-this kitten is already reserved by someone, then again you choose another and then failure, he was reserved by someone an hour ago ... So I stoped at this point and lost my 500$ deposit

I asked her to take 100$ indicated as a deposit on her website and return my remaining 400$ to me.

And what you think? After that she sent me a message: Go into the *** + I will open harassment case and block the phone(got all proofs and videos and messages history plus emails)

How do you like it? When someone steals your money and wants to sue you for it?

Of course she will not refund any penny..

Of course after this I stop playing her games, cuz I dont want a sick cat. Then I start searching for reviews hardly and BINGO! I found out this site.

Doing business like this is just awful and I am very surprised why it is still not closed!? I feel sorry for people who lost a lot of time and money and eventually receive sick kittens with problem documents, on which they spent money for a veterinarian and for treatment. I cant imagine how stressful is this... It is difficult to imagine how many victims are actually affected, because leaving feedback is very problematic, so not one of her resources has links for feedback and reviews, and she simply removes and blocks all comments on Instagram. This company was also known as Puro Amor cattery and after it was renamed to Pure Love Cattery. Please check added pictures. Have a good day everyone, be careful, aware and stay away from this fraudulent lady, she is a scam! You can also leave a review on google maps. People should know the truth!

She took the deposit from me of $250 when on her website says $100. After I told her 5 min later she changed the price on her website.

Luckily I took a screen shot of her price and have proof. Please see below I attached a picture.

I asked her to see the kittens and she is not allowing anyone to do so. After investigating it they are coming from another country sick and all die after couple weeks. She will not refund the money.

I dont want sick cats, but I want my money back. Please people

Be aware.

Found her website, went back and forth getting information and asking questions. Everything seemed to be normal.

Put down payment for specific kitten that was said to be coming from United Kingdom. She delivered the cat herself, white Range Rover with Florida plates and atleast 8 kittens in the back seat. She gives us the paperwork and we go our separate ways. I get home and he has a Ukraine passport, brought him to the vet and he was healthy so we didnt make a fuss about the lie of where he was from.

4 months later (today) he is diagnosed with FIP. 1% of cats get this disease and 100% of cats with FIP die quickly. FIP has been brought to the attention of this lady as I see Im not the only victim of this careless, inhuman cat *trafficker* and she continues to keep making money selling infected kittens.

The money isnt the issue here for me, its the fact that there has been this many complaints in such a short amount of time and nothing is being done. I would highly advise against buying a kitten through this illegitimate scammer.

I was sold a sick cat with liver failure that had to be put down 4 days after arrival. Stay far far away from this company.

They do NOT care about you or the cats even a little bit. Disgusting.

My wife saw a kitten she wanted on the Puri Amor Cattery website. We finally got the cat but it was very tired and seemed something was wrong.

We took him to the Dr after he started vomiting. The vet kept him for 2 days and said his white blood count was going down and nothing worked to bring it up. The kitten died after 3 days. We told Yulia and she immediately got us a replacement kitten very close to the other one.

We are sad about the death of our first kitty. But this second one is really great. I think the lengthy trip the cats take for delivery must cause stress on the cats. Especially when transported with many other cats sometimes 2 in a box for long distances.

I don't think it is easy to sale kittens and even when they try to take precautions there still can be problems. Julia was very reasonable with us.

So sad that our cat too was sick when we got her and now she is dying. We have a Great Love for her and now after 6 months , she has 1 to 4 weeks to live.

Please dont do this to others and as a breeder you should take proud in the health of your Pure Love Cats. Cats become a part of your family and its not about the money but the love that growing for our pet and then to lose the pet. Words cant explain our sad hearts of what we have coming in losing our KiKi in 6 months.

Please stop selling sick kittens, it hurts to have to watch our dear KIKi die. Diana Gonzalez