HeartNSoul Ragdolls review: a ragdoll kitten ($2200) 4

I should never have purchased a kitten from Heartnsoul because they sold me a sick kitten (and please see the pictures I uploaded).
My boyfriend and I adopted a Ragdoll at Heartnsoul for $2200. But since the kitten came to us, she was sneezing, sniffling, coughing, and hesitated to open her eyes, and there was yellow discharge from her nose and eyes. We noticed this on the day we picked her up in Richmond, but the breeder called Carolyn told us it could be because of the spay surgery and the new environment, which gave the kitten stress, and we trusted her and continued watching.
But the kitten was not getting better in the following days. Especially, her third eyelid began to cover more and more eyeballs and the kitten almost always closed her eyes. Then we sent the kitten to a vet. The vet told me the kitten was highly likely to be infected by Feline Herpesvirus Type 1 (she had ALL the typical symptoms of FHV-1), but it was pretty expensive to do the lab test to confirm it biologically. Also, when the kitten was in the animal hospital, she was too nervous so we failed to get some discharge to do the test effectively. Although the kitten had the vaccines, the nurse in the animal hospital told us the time internal between each two vaccines was too long so it failed to protect the kitten and we had to restart the whole vaccination circle.
Once a cat gets FHV-1, it will be a carrier for the whole life and will pass it on to other healthy cats. We have another healthy cat at home and we set them apart since the Ragdoll kitten came so they never had any contact. Now, I doubt whether we should let them live together and probably it will end up that we have two carriers in our home... And it seems we would spend more than $3000 to get a sick kitten if we do the lab test to confirm the virus (the price for the kitten + the vet examine fee + the antibiotics + the FHV-1 test + the whole vaccination circle). Carolyn claimed that it shouldn't be virus (the kitten came without any health check/health certificate), and she rejected the images of the sick kitten on iMessage that I sent to her, and never responded since we discussed the virus!
Before we picked up the kitten, Carolyn promised us to send us more pictures and videos of the kitten but she never did, so until we picked up the kitten in Richmond, we could only see two pictures and a short video of that kitten. No more update was provided although we requested.
We are not sure whether Carolyn knew this kitten might have FHV-1 before she sold her to us, but an experienced breeder should be able to notice some signs if a kitten is sick. When we saw her pictures that Carolyn sent to us, we found her eyes were not so sweet (and we pointed this out to the breeder but this offended her and we apologized...), but we still thought the kitten was cute and there was no bicolor kitten available with other breeders. So we placed the deposit, but never got any update of pictures and video from the breeder that she promised. Then, only 2 days after the kitten's spay surgery, the breeder told us to pick up the kitten. And on the contract, which we never could see until we picked up the kitten, the breeder claimed to be not responsible for any upper respiratory infection in kittens (It's unfair, isn't it?). At the same time, the kitten was underweighted (4.6 pounds at 5 months). Before purchasing the kitten, I told Carolyn that I wanted a big kitten so I preferred a male, and the breeder told me this female kitten was "HUGE." So we accepted this "HUGE" female kitten. After we placed the deposit, the breeder never told us her weight until one day before we picked her up. When we drove far to pick up the kitten, we couldn't tell what exactly was wrong, and we didn't want to disappoint anyone, so we had no choice but to sign the contract and pay the balance.
BTW, the kitten is not as sweet as the breeder described.in the vet's office, the kitten performed not well-socialized and it took the vet & the nurse a lot of energy to feed her some antibiotics. Now I need to feed her antibiotics 5 times a day (2 for the whole body and 3 for the eyes treatment). It's really a lot of work if she does not have a good personality.
We were very excited to expect another kitten in our home but now it really has turned out to be a headache. And we should have been more careful and cautious.
My suggestion for those who purchase a kitten is: NEVER, NEVER, NEVER accept a kitten that looks unhealthy when you pick it up. The bill from the animal hospital will be much higher than the deposit, or even the full price of the kitten.

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