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Hollywood Sphynx Breeding unhealthy cats

I purchased a sphynx kitten from this breeder in 7/08. Sparing you all of the details, in 8/10 he was diagnosed with Moderate Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. So now my 2 1/2 yo boy has to take 2-3 medications per day to hopefully prevent him from throwing a blood clot and / or congestive heart failure, not to mention how is life has been cut drastically short. I have been informed by more than 2 sources that this breeder has admitted to NOT screening his cats for HCM. I just learned that my boy's litter mate was also diagnosed with HCM in 2009. This breeder does not mention on his website that he does NOT screen his breeding cats for HCM, therefore he is misleading the public about the health of his kittens. So anyone who is interested in purchasing a cat from this breeder, make sure he provides proof that the parents have tested negative for HCM.

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Update by On behaf of Kahne
Dec 04, 2010 7:05 am EST

Just an update, my darling boy passed away due to a blood clot and respiratory distress due to HCM. His passing was 3 months after his diagnosis...he would have been 3 years old in May. Rest In Peace my Angel, I will always love you.

Update by On behaf of Kahne
Sep 25, 2010 9:21 pm EDT

I wanted to give an update on my original complaint. I did speak to Jerry from Hollywood Sphynx tonight at length about my cat's recent diagnosis. He did explain to me that he does not screen his breeding cats for HCM but only because they were screened prior to coming into his care. I want those who are intersted in purchasing a cat from any breeder, please do your research, ask questions, and make sure the breeding cats have screened negative for HCM.

Update by On behaf of Kahne
Sep 20, 2010 8:43 pm EDT

This in response to Dawniette's comment re: having my Sphynx for 2 years before his diagnosis. When I took him to his first visit with his vet 1 wk after I purchased him (July 2008), I was told he had a heart murmur. This murmur is what prompted his initial echocardiogram in 11/08. At that time I was told that he may have early onset juvenile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and to have another echocardiogram when he was full grown. His 2nd echocardiogram which resulted in his diagnosis was in 8/10. I never thought I would say that I am thankful for the heart murmur, otherwise the HCM would have been detected once he became symptomatic.

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Los. Gatos, US
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Jul 20, 2011 8:08 pm EDT

To whom it may concern,
My name is Mark, I am Rose Marie Zizzo's cousin.
I feel the need to explain to everyone who has posted comments
blogs and words of hate about my cousin the reason she is the way
she is and to warn innocent people of potential misery.
Rose Marie was always a troubled child but trouble turned to
tragedy when she was 11 years old Rosemarie had always exhibited
signs of mental instability however when she was 11 years old, we
were just kids and my cousin, who had always been obsessed with
cat's, ruthlessly poured gasoline on the neighbor's cat, then lit
it with a lighter she stole from my mother, I ran screaming to my
mother Rosemarie stood and watched with fascination.
My mother quickly called 911 but it took them over 24 minutes to
get to our home and sadly it was too late for the little kitten, it
was at that time my cousin was taken from our home and placed in a
mental facility. She lived out the next several years there and
was stabilized on medication for her Schizophrenia disorder, she
appeared to be fine when they released here but then she began to
collect cats in her trailer until one day a someone reported her to
the authorities for having over 75 cats in her trailer many of
which were severely sick and deprived of human compassion.
As the investigation continued multiple cat bodies were found
stored in her freezer, it was at this time that our family
discovered that Rose Marie had stopped taking her medication, she
was once again hospitalized for week in 1/2 and released. Having
all of her cats taken from her she turned her mentally deranged
mind to the Internet where she began a marathon of stalking cat
breeders building what appeared to be cat breeder consumer sites.
Because of her ongoing harassment and defamation of reputable
breeders, tons of breeders began to complain about Rose Marie to
CFA, they banned her from ever registering cats.
She was now banned from the world's largest cat breeding registry
and all of her cats she once owned were taken from her. One would
have thought this would have been the end of her brutal online
attacks against pedigreed cat breeders, it would have been in a
sound and stable humans mind but that was not the case with Rose
Marie Zizzo. Going on and off of her medication made her medical
condition even worse. She had become fixated on a woman known as
Melanie Lowery. Melanie was a cat breeder who had sold her a cat,
my cousin began to post comments that the cat was ill and Melanie
was evil, after enduring two years of vicious attacks from Rose
Marie Melanie had finally had enough and filed a lawsuit she won
this lawsuit in the amount of $7500, my cousin was found guilty of
Internet cyber bulling and wrongful defamation of character our
family had to scrape together the money to pay Melanie for my
cousin's wrongful actions.
This slap on the hand did not faze my sister, she continued to
widen her selection of cat breeders primarily consisting of Persian
and Himalayan cat breeders then quickly turned on all other
pedigree cat breeders. At this point Rose Marie had been kicked
out of CFA, lost a lawsuit, had a judgment against her to silence
her online attacks and all of her cats were taken from her, these
events continued to deteriorate her mental illness, as our family
we did not know what to do for psychological disorder which
escalated around the world via the Internet so we began to distance
ourselves from her and remind her we would not be here to bail her
out financially again.
Her family support network had been exhausted by her controversial
behavior and outburst which occurred on a day to day basis, her
irritable moods could be triggered from a certain food, too little
or not enough sleep. The one thing we began to notice was how the
simple glance at even a feral cat launched her into another online
tirade and violent declamation. Her wild words pushed cat breeders
to form an alliance against her, while some fought back others
ignored her demagogue, vehement ways. To this day Rose Marie
continues to build multiple complaint sites in which she uses to
feed her perplexed and delusion state of mind.
These web sites are as dangerous as she is, with no family no cats
and no friends only a computer she learned the dangerous skill of
installing malicious spyware and tracking malware on her sights to
see how many people were reading her disoriented post about cat
breeders.
The hazardous malware installed onto anyone's computer who dared to visit Rose Marie's complaint sites fell victim.
This became her new obsession. When people visited her site for any length of time her
websites installed invisible history tracking spyware, this
software enabled Rosemarie to track the future Internet surfing
history of people who visited her site, using this spyware she was
able to watch people go into their online banking and credit card
statements.
Unsuspecting cat breeders and everyday citizens reading her rants
fell victim to her watch full eye. Rose Marie was able to see the
login information and passwords breeders used to advertise their
cats for sale online. Breeders could not understand how personal
information stored only in their email boxes was being displayed on
Rosemary's websites. As Rose Marie read through the emails of any
and all who visited her web sites she posted personal information
such as income tax documents for the world to see, by this time
Rose Marie was no longer only targeting cat breeders, everyone was
a victim who was seeking phony complaints stored on her deceitful
websites. We as her family knew to never visit any of her sites
because she WILL obtain personal documents and private information
and post them on her website in hopes of getting a reaction from
anyone.
Rose Marie has hundreds of complaint sites with various looks and
feels to them.
The only safe, accurate and authoritative consumer review sites are
www.consumerreports.org
The Attorney General's Office (Per state)

The FBI has now been notified of her illegal online treacherous
behavior. Under no conditions should anyone be so drama driven
that they feel the need to visit one of her many websites, doing so
WILL compromise your computer and financial records to this
seriously ill mind. As ashamed as we are of the fact that Rose
Marie continues to fail taking her medication I feel that the
obligation to intervene in hopes of saving another family from
suffering distress and torment by my cousin's ruthless actions.
I do hope this glimpse into the personal side of Rose Marie Zizzo
will help to explain the torment and torture to all who take
admonish.
Earnestly,
Mark Zizzo

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catlover76
Bloomingdale, US
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Oct 13, 2010 8:05 am EDT
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You must screen breeding cats once a year, breeding is not profitable it is a labor of love

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Banning, US
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Sep 20, 2010 9:52 pm EDT
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CFA Needs Be Held "Legally Liable" For Their CFA Breeders That Commit Crimes Against Pedigreed Cats

CFA is a cat registry, the largest cat registry in the world, has employees, makes a profit, is a legal corporation and promotes cat breeding worldwide. In promoting cat breeding that creates agony & suffering for the pedigreed cats under the ultimate care of their owners, the CFA cat breeders.

There is no doubt about it registered cat breeders have terrible reputations worldwide. The horror stories hit the major cities, nationally and even worldwide. The horror stories of pedigree cat abuse, neglect, cruelty, hoarding & rescuers is beyond belief & comprehension. It truly makes the good cat breeders who are doing the right thing look terribly bad and tarnish all cat breeders as bad. The crimes are done by the very caretakers who is suppose to love and care for them the HERE

The government is really under alot of pressure due to the amount of cruelty done against all animals in general, especially with the new crush videos that are being exposed. And the governement may just make CFA and all cat & dog registeries "legally liable" for their own breeders crimes against their cats/dogs..

Cat Fanciers ###., Inc [CFA] needs to place their money where their mouths is. "If" CFA is against pedigree cat abuse then do something to show the public & your sponsors you are serious about your CFA cat breeder commiting horrific crimes against pedigreed cats. Because if you do not the government will hopfully make you "legally liable" for the crimes.

As it stand right now CFA is getting away with murder. How? When one of their paid registered cat breeders commit a crime against their own cats, CFA places their name on a meaningless list and wrings their hands and says, "that breeder is banned from CFA privileged services". That is too easy for you CFA. You need to stand up to the plate and come up with very serious consequences for your CFA breeders harming our pedigree cats that God made. God made these cats to love not to harm like so many of your breeders have done. Perhaps the time has arrived where CFA needs to re-examine their procedures & consider legally protecting themselves against their own CFA registered breeders commiting crimes against cats.

To read more inside information about Cat Fanciers Association. Inc [CFA] to here:
CFA Index 1 http://sicb.info/cfaindex1.html
CFA Index 2 http://sicb.info/cfaindex2.html

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Banning, US
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Sep 20, 2010 1:09 pm EDT
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STOP Inhumane Cat Breeding
http://sicb.info
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Hollywood Sphynx Refuse to give back my money

Jerry Lynn Dean II refuses to give me my $1500 back for a sphynx I decided not to purchase.

Nice and helpful in the beginning but as things went sour he became extremely rude and aggresive and ended up telling me to be careful who I give my money to.

Even after offering to have him pay me back in installments at a time line that worked for him he refuses.

Stay away from this breeder! He has no ethical busniess standards and I am pretty sure he doesn't have a license in CA to breed.

Despite the fact that he has had many successful sales of sphynx kittens and has beautiful cats, no one should support a breeder who is not ethical.

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Phelan, US
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Jan 04, 2010 1:10 pm EST

This lady is VERY VERY STUPID HOLLY WOOD SPHYNX IS A GOOD CATERY NAME IGNOR STUPID MINDED PEOPLE WHO DONT KNOW HOW TOO READ A CONTRACT !

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Hollywoodsphynx
Redding, US
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Nov 29, 2009 7:35 pm EST

By the way...way to make up another account to get this on here twice Rebekah! You're not shady at all.

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Hollywoodsphynx
Redding, US
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Nov 29, 2009 12:04 am EST

Hmmm...I don't really need to respond to this being that any breeders reading this will need no explaination. As I told this person 99.9 percent of breeders all have the same basic contract rules. One rule that is pretty well industry standard across the board weather it be cats, dogs, or any type of animal is that we don't do cash refunds. Especially when it's this type of situation where there is absolutely nothing wrong with the kitten in subject. Sparing you the details and in a nutjob...I mean nutshell: Rebekah decided two days before the said kitten was due to go in for her spay surgery that she didn't want it because I wouldn't change my industry standard contract rule of the 1 year genetic guarantee for her. I was even going to drive several hours to deliver the kitten to make it easier for her. She had been in contact with another breeder who said they WOULD give her a two year quarantee. Yaaay, good for her. Her reasoning for wanting this was due to the fact that the said kitten was a late bloomer in size and she was worried it was going to die or fall ill because of this and she had supposedly already been through that and thought it would happen again. I told her I didn't do cash refunds only replacement kittens (which to this day I have never had a single problem and all my buyers have been absolutely delighted. I even have one buyer who is going to drive 5 hours both ways twice to bring me their now grown baby to take care of for a week while they go on a cruise because they feel safer with me then some boarding facility). I tried several times to assure her the kitten would be fine and she became completely hostile and started yelling at me on the phone and didn't want to hear anything I had to say short of refunding her money. The irony in all this is that I still have the kitten she was supposed to recieve and she is now my sweetest not to mention largest girl for her age (10 pounds at 10 months pictures coming soon). She is a wonderful kitten and will be added to my program once she is of age. So, I guess I should say thank you to Rebekah for refusing delivery of her kitten. Again, I go far out of my way to keep all my clients happy as any of them will gladly tell you. If you would like to contact me regarding this matter please feel free. All my contact information can be found at HollywoodSphynx.com Thank you again, Jerry

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Hollywood Sphynx Sphynx Breeder

Jerry Lynn Dean II ripped me of for $1500

I decided not to purchase a cat and he refuses to give me my money back

Feel free to contact me for details and better breeder information.

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Nov 29, 2009 7:39 pm EST

By the way Rebekah has another account she made up on here (MicJ61) so she could make up more then one complaint. Check the member since dates. Good try Rebekah.

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Redding, US
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Nov 29, 2009 7:32 pm EST

Hmmm...I don't really need to respond to this being that any breeders reading this will need no explaination. As I told this person 99.9 percent of breeders all have the same basic contract rules. One rule that is pretty well industry standard across the board weather it be cats, dogs, or any type of animal is that we don't do cash refunds. Especially when it's this type of situation where there is absolutely nothing wrong with the kitten in subject. Sparing you the details and in a nutjob...I mean nutshell: Rebekah decided two days before the said kitten was due to go in for her spay surgery that she didn't want it because I wouldn't change my industry standard contract rule of the 1 year genetic guarantee for her. I was even going to drive several hours to deliver the kitten to make it easier for her. She had been in contact with another breeder who said they WOULD give her a two year quarantee. Yaaay, good for her. Her reasoning for wanting this was due to the fact that the said kitten was a late bloomer in size and she was worried it was going to die or fall ill because of this and she had supposedly already been through that and thought it would happen again. I told her I didn't do cash refunds only replacement kittens (which to this day I have never had a single problem and all my buyers have been absolutely delighted. I even have one buyer who is going to drive 5 hours both ways twice to bring me their now grown baby to take care of for a week while they go on a cruise because they feel safer with me then some boarding facility). I tried several times to assure her the kitten would be fine and she became completely hostile and started yelling at me on the phone and didn't want to hear anything I had to say short of refunding her money. The irony in all this is that I still have the kitten she was supposed to recieve and she is now my sweetest not to mention largest girl for her age (10 pounds at 10 months pictures coming soon). She is a wonderful kitten and will be added to my program once she is of age. So, I guess I should say thank you to Rebekah for refusing delivery of her kitten. Again, I go far out of my way to keep all my clients happy as any of them will gladly tell you. If you would like to contact me regarding this matter please feel free. All my contact information can be found at HollywoodSphynx.com Thank you again, Jerry

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