Well folks, with everyone’s wonderful efforts, we got scammer and NJ puppy broker, Vicki Patterson who went under NJ Collie Rescue and Referral, off Petfinder but she’s back at it. That’s right, she now has another website where she’s selling ‘rescue’ dogs at a discount.
As you may recall, this “rescue” has been operating like your run-of-the-mill pet store. It was confirmed in a conversation with the commercial kennel owner on June 23, 2008 that all or most of the purebred puppies which were listed on her now-defunct NJ Collie Rescue’s PetFinder website (under the name New Jersey Collie Rescue & Referral) were purchased from the MO breeder whose kennel name was superimposed on some of the pictures.
In fact, the breeder stated she was under the impression that Vicki Patterson was a pet shop owner when she purchased the 12-14 week old puppies at prices “far less than the usual advertised prices” of $200 found on the website. Patterson not only demanded cash only for her “special rescue rates” of $500 to $745, she also stated the puppies were “saved from auction” (which the MO breeder confirmed –what we’ve known for years–that young puppies are rarely, if ever, sold at auctions – that most of the dogs found at puppy mill auctions are older, retired breeders).
Here’s the information I got today, this update was sent to me by Mary Shaver-O’conner of BanOhioAuctions and issued by Libby Williams of NJCAPSA;
- To contact Vicki directly – > victoriasvanners@gmail.com
- To file a compliant about Vicki’s listing on HorseTopia.com, click here – > http://horsetopia.horse-for-sale.org/home.cfm/complaints.html
Just a heads-up to all rescues and rescuers who contacted us about Vicki Patterson and NJ Collie Rescue & Referral Vicki Patterson has a new website and is selling puppies under a new name: Purebreed Puppy Rescue. As you recall, Patterson was suspended from PetFinder and apparently had to find another way to sell her puppies, which are now listed at a reduced price of $400!
http://www.siteskins.net/purebreedpuppyrescue/
She is also selling on this website: http://horsetopia.horse-for-sale.org/local/products-and-tack/l289958
Rescue Purebred Puppies
Ad Text
Purebreed puppies need rescue too! When a breeder does not sell their puppy to the big brokerage houses they have no other outlet for them. Many of them end up in auction houses. We are here to help prevent this Anyone can buy a pup at the auction house. . .and there are many nice families who do. Then there are the pit bull breeders looking for pit bull bait, the ‘good ole boys’ looking to do a little target practice, the laboratories etc etc. and some get homes where they will live out their lives chained outside in some ones back yard.
We are the interceptor. We intercept them BEFORE they enter the auction floor and transport them to NJ. Flying most of them in at great expense. These puppies are not rejects. . .they are healthy. Been dewormed. UTD on shots. Most are males. . .because it seems the puppy buying population mainly wants females leaving many many male puppies unwanted. Most are older then 7 weeks old.
Yet they are @ 8 to 10 weeks old.
Our adoption fee for these purebreed puppies is $400. that covers the transport to Nj, shots de worming and foster care. Compared to similar puppies our rescue pups adoption fee is very reasonable our current adoptable puppies can be seen here http://www.siteskins.net/purebreedpuppyrescue/ sorry we do not ship. Thank you for trying to help our puppies.
Updated: 7/1/08 -Created: 7/1/08
Expires: 1/1/09
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Location:
Whitehouse Station NJ, 08889 (map)Price: – $400
Condition: >
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this burns my butt. i went to her website and saw the pic of the little male chihuahua. obviously i'm partial to chi's. i wonder how many times this poor little guys sugar levels have run amuck and how it's been treated. grrrrr. dogs arent the only ones who can bite!
i think we should organize a road trip and put this person out of business for good.
What is this a one woman posse to destroy someone?!!
Vicki has been in rescue for over a dozen years. Very much respected and saved countless lives.
Now there appears to be the work of one person riling up others, because they don't like her?
My biggest complaint being in Rescue is the self-righteous hypocrite rescuers. It's my way or I'll lambast you to everyone else and destroy you.
What the hell is wrong with everyone!!!
Put the love for the dogs FIRST.
Working together saves lives.
You want to organize a road trip to verbally and physically threaten Vicki?
I want to know about it, so I can be there waiting for you.
This is totally disgraceful.
Work together – Save lives
OR
You get the hell out of rescue!
This Vicki individual is most likely a scammer. Her website is a sign to that. I mean come on, its so obvious that she's using animals for her own personal gain. She claims to be a "Rescuer"? Extremely doubtful! She should get a real job!
Yes Vicki is a "Rescuer" and has worked with other rescuers for over a dozen years. Vicki is also an extremely good dog trainer, earning a lot of respect from other rescuers.
There is nothing for Vicki to "gain", except what all Rescuers gain, the overwhelming heart gripping knowledge of knowing you saved a life.
Vicki is in no need of financial gain – I know that for a fact.
This is very upsetting. Too many posters with too many problems with the *Rescue*. I urge all the posters who have gotten dogs from Vicki Patterson and have had problems to contact the NJ State Attorney General and voice your complaints. Hopefully you have kept all appropriate records, vet bills, emails, etc. for they will ask for them. Enough complaints will prompt an investigation. In addition, since she is accepting cash only, an investigation could entail Tax Fraud as well.
Anne Milgram
NJ State Attorney General
P.O. Box 080
Trenton, NJ 08625-0080
Ph 609-292-4925
Fax 609-292-3508
Also, here is a related investigation and conviction. Please google Gina De'Lynn Price. Price was convicted of wire and mail fraud, concealing her income, and filing false income tax returns stemming from her puppy-selling business.
I just want to say thank you for finally putting this person out of business.
Almost four years ago I adopted a black lab/retriever/collie mix from her. After having the puppy for two days we were down in Red Bank Vet Hospital and the puppy was diagosed with Parvo virus. After contacting her several times with no luck, while the puppy was in the hospital with very minimal chance of survival, she was 4 lbs and completely dehydrated, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I contacted the ASPCA in Hunterdon County NJ and sent them to her residence. All the puppies were already gone and she would not let them in the barn where she kept the puppies in horrible living conditions. At the time I believed there was probably close to 50 puppies in different pens. The doctors at Red Bank told me that chances were all the puppies that were in contact with mine, all probably had parvo and Patterson really should contact anyone else who adopted through her. She never got back to me.
I filed a small claims action against NJ Collie and Vikki Patterson for the thousands of dollars incurred by Red Bank Vet Hospital for the almost three weeks my dog spent there. We settled for $500.
The best part of the story is my dog is now 3 years old and a very happy healthy companion. Unfortunately I am sure there were many that were not as lucky as she was. We had the means to help her, most people do not.
Thank you for a job well done.
I also adopted a border collie from Victoria Patterson last year. This woman is awful! The dog was kept in a dirty barn in a dirty cage. She is NOT a dog trainer as the dog was terrified of her and had absolutely no kind of training or manners. She also lied to me several times (about how she cared for the dog, how long she had the dog, etc.). Awful, awful, awful! And what's worse — my border collie and the other dogs Victoria comes into contact with suffer! So sad.
I have never heard of such stupidity as the last two posts.
I bought the dog – despite pups in filthy pens in a filthy barn, probably had parvo……blah…blah…blah
You are not responsible for picking out a sick dog in what you claim to be disgusting sick-infested conditions?
Unbelievable.
I sure won't be reading any more nonsense on this topic.
I know that woman. She is a terrible liar. Not only did she "fake" this whole puppy business but she also sold "dead broke trail horses". She posted the ads on Horsetopia and pretended that she owned the horses for a very long time and that she is only getting rid of the horse because she has too many (yeah right !).
I took her word. My fault, bought without riding because I had a back injury. Gave the horse to my son for his birthday and …..what a surprise. The horse is crazy, rears and shakes with fear. Our longtime vet told us that this horse must have been drugged to show him to us and mistreated for a long time. This horse is so headshy and afraid that he tore his crossties out of the wall of our barn. No we have an expensive lawn mower.
As soon as she had sold us the horse another one went up on Horsetopia…same story, lies and more lies.
Selling the horse and we owned him a looong time. Funny thing is I know the person she bought the horse from a week before the ad for 400 Dollars. Horse was/is untrainable. Treats animals bad. Big Time Liar.
Oh my gosh! THANK YOU so much for posting this! I also thought the border collie I adopted from Victoria Patterson had been drugged too when she showed him to me. He was almost normal when I met him and when I brought him home, his entire personality was different. When I talked to his first foster home, she said that she told Vicki NOT to adopt him out to someone who already has a dog (which I do and Victoria met my other dog) because of the BC's aggression issues. Victoria Patterson KNEW the BC was fear-aggressive, most likely drugged him to show off how "nice" he was (Victoria took a LONG time getting him out of that nasty barn she had the dogs in), and didn't care at all about the consequences. What an awful person! I didn't get a sick dog from Vicki, but I adopted a dog that Victoria knowingly knew was aggressive. Who would do that to someone???? Victoria Patterson gives rescues a bad name. I'm happy she was finally kicked off of petfinder and had another one of her websites deleted. She's awful!
Apparently Vicki is still at it….
http://adoptapurebredpuppy.com/1.html
She now has a "puppy van" where she will go to people and let them pick one of her sick puppy mill dogs.
Argh. When will she stop???
Hi I seen these post ended in 08 but this one is still at it. I purchased a pup for 500.00 out of the classified section of the NJ.com paper. My pup has been very sick. For some reason I did a search after speaking to my vet that new about her and seen these alerts . Wish I would of searched before. It sickens me that I didn't see this sooner. I can't believe she gets away with this and no one is stopping her. She takes the money and runs without even giving receipts and papers that aren't even good. Don't even know if shot records is good. Vet needs to run test. I only have pup a few weeks and my vet bills are starting to add up which she is responsible for. I'm not stopping till she is stopped.
Hi, I just recently purchased a puppy from Vicky and he turned out to be very sick. She in turn said she wanted to come pick up the puppy and have him treated by her vet. My husband said NO WAY!!! Right now I have over $600 in vet bills and she will not pick up the phone when I call her.
wow I am very sad to find out I was scammed and made to feel like I was rescuing a pup in need, when I was just supporting a low down puppy mill scam artist
we "rescued" our dog about a year ago from vicki
he was sick when we got him (giardia) but we assumed it was becasue he was a rescue.
I have very happy a year later to have our lab, but this pisses me off, that this woman is not in jail for fraud
What the hell is wrong with the state of NJ???? Apparently, they don't give a rats ass who starts a new business as long as they get their money.
To Cheryl, sorry, I have been in rescue for years now, and anyone who says they are a rescuer and sells puppies for a profit are not in rescue for the animals, but for the almighty dollar. I would love to put this woman out of business and find a judge who would never allow her near another animal, big or small, the rest of her life. She has no heart for animals. And by the way, yes, it makes one feel good, a feeling deep in our souls when we rescue another dog/cat, who is out of a high kill shelter, and into a reputable rescue.
Mark my words, I am going to check with the east coast DNA/DNR/DNF list and see if this nutcase is on it, and if she isn't, I will post nationwide, not to adopt or send an animal to her "rescue".
I am so angry after reading about this. I bought a collie mix from Vicki in June 2007 for $200 cash. I searched for months to find the perfect "rescue" dog so I could save a dog that didn't have a home. My dog did not have any health issues but does have some behavioral problems, probably from whatever Vicki but her though.
I purchased a boston terrier from this horrible person a little more than a year ago. He was in the vet the next day and had a multitude of problems. The vet confirmed he was at least 2 weeks younger than we thought and was probably taken from his mother much too young. He was in and out of the Vet on an almost weekly basis for the past year with a wide range of problems including an overnight stay at the hispital, most of which the vet believes stems from his immune system not developing correctly and from whatever puppy mill he was . The bills mounted pretty quickly to say the least but we love the little guy. Thankfully, knock on wood, thanks to a very proactive vet and lots of love on our part, he is a seemingly healthy and VERY playful one year old right now. But we can't help but think that the next illness is right around the corner
I have almost the exact same story! I bought a dog from her on a Monday… That Thursday (at 7 in the morning) we were rushing her to the vet! 6 months and $8000.00 later it seems like all is finally ok with my little dog. But I too am always wondering if it is really all behind us or if it is just a matter of time until she is back in the hospital
Megan…when did you buy that pup? And if it was after October 2009, did you get any of the documents – your rights as a buyer – that are outlined in this document under Business Practices?
http://www.nj.gov/oag/ca/ocp/orders/Victoria.pdf
Because if you didn't, this is a direct violation of orders issued by the NJ State Attorney General. If you still have all documentation about your pup's medical bills and the fact that it was "too young to be sold", you should file complaint. It was "depressed"…
She sold me two gypsy vanners for 23,000 dollars and I found out they were a scam and no bill of sales. There were hoards of dogs up there and she told me she was a animal rescuer. Why doesnt the goverment step in. She is scamming the Irs.
This lady is awful! I bought a yorkie-poo from her and the poor dog was in the hospital 3 days later. (she ended up having to stay and get all kinds of tests done for a week!) The vet figured that the puppy was probably younger then advertised and was way to young to be taken away from her mother! The puppy was hypoglycemic and was to young to even know how to eat on her own! (Mrs Patterson had said she believed the dog was "depressed" and that's why she wasnt eating) wrong! This puppy was to young to be sold!
This is really distressing. More and more comments regarding the sale and conditions of these animals are suddenly coming in again. I'm going to consult someone on this.