Terra Siberians
reviews and complaints

I was about to enter into an agreement with these Terra Siberians “people” for a kitten and send them a $350 Deposit. CHASE and ZELLE froze the transfer and lit my account up with a FRAUD notification attached to the recipient account. The email addresses they have been using to communicate with me are [protected]@gmail.com and amida.[protected]@gmail.com. The second one is what raised the FRAUD alert with CHASE/ZELLE today and they stopped the transaction, thankfully helping me avoid getting ripped off from these folks. I will be filing a police report for fraud and reporting their URL: www.terrasiberiankittens.com/

This breeder is a nightmare! First, she lied about having an upcoming litter and when I questioned, she would keep stalling. This went on for 3 months (of course, after I had already put down my deposit). After the litter was born, it took a month until she would send a picture - kept saying she was too busy with her job. Finally got the pictures and chose the kitten I wanted to adopt. I was told that she wouldn't release until 10-12 weeks in age. This would fall into the first week of the year. The week before Christmas, she reached out and said he was ready, trying to push me to pick up sooner. I got her to agree to New Years Eve. She promised that all the necessary shots would be taken care of prior to my arrival. He only received 1 shot (2 days prior to me picking him up - he should have had the 6 week shot and the 9 week shots done).
She kept telling me that the little guy wouldn't eat wet food yet - which seemed very strange to me.?
When I arrived, my little guy was all matted up, dirty, smelly and was missing fur on his neck and his whiskers were cut! I was polite and didn't mention it, trying not to cause a scene. She, then brought out 2 of her other cats and they were FILTHY and terribly MATTED!
This woman does NOT care, at all, about these cats. I wish someone could take them all away from her!

The summary: The kitten we'd reserved died and the breeder failed to inform us, dodged our messages, and has not yet returned our $300 deposit.
The more detailed version: When we first met the breeder, she offered us the chance to visit the cat we reserved whenever we wanted until we were able to bring it home. When we followed up with her a week later about doing so, we got numerous delay-tactic messages like "let me check my schedule, " "I had x illness but I'll let you know, " "I had y illness but I'll let you know, " "I'm working but I'll let you know, " etc. Finally I wrote about how discouraged we were that we'd sent so many messages without getting a real response and the breeder replied, "are you the ones who reserved the orange cat?" and went on to say that that cat had died "the other night." In other words, she'd withheld this information from us in order to continue holding onto our deposit. Even if you want to try to excuse this as pure disorganization and not actual theft, that's still not okay. I asked for a return of our deposit and have not heard back since. I'm posting here in an attempt to get a response and refund from this breeder.

I received a beautiful kitten from liz at terra siberian, other then uti and herpes in his eye he was very healthy. Both uti and herpes was treated. After about 6 months my family decided to get him a friend ❤, this is where the nightmare began! The little girl stole my families heart. But sadly she passed at roughly 6 months old from fip. We lost her on christmas eve couple years ago. Devistating my family.. Just a slow horrible way for a kitten to pass. Liz at 1st seemed caring, and gave us a replacement kitten 4 months after. This kitten thank god was extremely healthy. So we thought ok, this was just a fluke. Siberians are so loving you can't help but to have more lol. So a good year later we decided to get 2 more kittens. Yes, that would be 4 total lol but trust me they are so worth it. So we got 2 more. We come home and right away noticed the 1 kitten was limping, liz kept saying he was fine. So we took them to the vet for a check up and come to find out they both were treated for herpes and worms. Also had a xray on our guys leg/hip. Come to find out he was born without a ball to his femur! Meaning his leg is not attached to the hip! Liz had to know something wasnt right. And long story short the other kitten died from fip 2 months later! Stay away from liz. If you get a healthy cat, thank god! But people its not worth the risk. She will even discount kittens knowing they are sick, but convince you they are healthy! Its horrible a human can cause so much hurt to a single family. She shouldn't breed.

I am a cat breeder in Northern Ohio, and received five calls in the past seven months from people who had very sad, horrific stories about receiving dead, dying, flea-ridden, diarrhea-covered, or otherwise completely unhealthy kittens from Terra Siberians, a backyard breeder located in the state of Michigan. If you have managed to get a healthy cat from them, you are an absolute minority. This has become my personal mission as a breeder to protect people who have called me and asked for my advice on dealing with sociopaths posing as cat breeders. One woman in Texas, for instance, received her kitten (it was shipped) dead. Absolutely dead. I've been following the posts on here for over a year, quietly, and attempting to gather information. It looks like they have at least three or four people they are threatening now -- and so it's high time someone who stands up for ethical cat breeding and TICA standards steps in and blows the whistle. These people who've adopted sick cats, one of whom paid $1400 for one, have called my business line or joined my pet loss support group and it's just happened too many times to not call this out. Contact any cat breeder, especially Siberian breeders, in the midwest and they will tell you about Terra Siberians' reputation. Please don't only take my word for it; call around to breeders and you'll see they have all received the sad calls I have from people in tears, trying to figure out what went wrong. I invite you to do your research before you buy, including the ads on this page. I know it is a complaint board, but these are real people and they've cried to me on the phone -- I can vouch for them. Call or email any other Siberian breeder around this region of Ohio-Michigan and learn more yourself.