Heavens Angels Cattery review: Sphynx breeder

My Partner and I wanted to get another Sphynx cat so my current cat would have a friend 🥹 Unfortunately we chose to go with Heaven’s Angels Cattery located in B.C. We had gotten our first cat with her (after some stress) but at least knew she had cats. The owner Hillary Harris took our $2,800 and promised us an all black cat. Months later she told us she actually didn’t have any black sphynx but had a different type. We said that was fine because we were tired of waiting. After months of waiting the week had arrived where we were going to receive our kitten. We had named her, bought her a blankie, and were ready to welcome her home. Suddenly Hillary stopped talking to us. After asking and waiting she finally got back to us the day before the kitten was to arrive and told us that the cat died.

We were obviously devastated but were told her friend (who owed her a cat?) had a newborn kitten. We waited for this kitten to get old enough.. another four months later and it was time to receive our new kitten. We named her and again were excited to have a sibling for our cat. Two days we were supposed to receive our new baby we got a text telling us that this kitten had died.

At this point we no longer trusted Hillary as a breeder or a business person. I began to wonder if the kittens had ever even existed. Even if they did they were not healthy and I no longer felt comfortable doing business with Her.

When we asked for our money back we were immediately met with hostility, and she tried to pawn other cats on us. We were done waiting and too heartbroken to even think of getting a new cat. (We had photos and videos of the kittens we were promised).

This was clearly not what Hillary wanted to hear. She got extremely unprofessional and inappropriate with me. She verbally assaulted me and showed me how unstable she was. She acted erratic, with her “friend” claiming to have gang involvement and intimidating us. This person now had all our money and we had nothing.

It wasn’t untill mentioning we had spoked to a lawyer that she started paying some of our money back. After 3 more months she paid us back a total of $2000. She quoted a “non refundable deposit” from a contract that our legal counsel said would never even hold up on court. The contract was as flimsy as her operations. We learned that “bait and switch” was a classic technique that some breeders and sales people use.

She has now been evading communications and we are out $800, have been through an emotional rollercoaster, and wasted 1.5 years that could have been spent working with a reputable breeder.

We wanted to share our story so others can avoid what we went through. Please be careful and if something doesn’t feel right pull out IMMEDIATELY. Unfortunately our emotions clouded our judgement. This has been a nightmare, losing $800 sucks but the worst part is being manipulated and taken advantage of.