Neko's story... He was unfortunately purchased from puppy mill owner/breeder: Kevin & Danielle Setterini of Right Puppy Kennel (among numerous other kennel names: Yadkin Wolf Den, Blustag Tamaskan (not the original Blustag from UK) from Salisbury, NC and died at 3-1/2 years old. PLEASE READ HIS STORY. *UPDATE 11/13/13 - KEVIN SETTERINI HAS THREATENED TO BURN MY HOUSE DOWN & COME AFTER MY FAMILY, IF I DO NOT REMOVE THIS SITE*. DO NOT BUY ANY ANIMALS FROM THIS BREEDER, BUYER BEWARE!!!
Neko caged with siblings when arrived to pick him up @ 6 wks. old).
We have created this website to help others avoid being scammed into purchasing a puppy or dog from Kevin & Danielle Settineri of Salisbury, North Carolina. They go by many names for their kennel & use different websites, they change them all the time to avoid bad reviews and to elude the public. When we purchased Neko, they were called "Right Puppy Kennel", now they go by the names of: BlugStag Tamaskan (a rip off site of the original founder in the UK & Yadkin Wolf Den (of Charlotte, NC) - websites listed are: www.Tamaskan.com; www.Blustagtamaskan.com; www.Yadkinwolfden.com; www.MyShiba.com and their puppies can also be found on the following free ad sites: www.puppyfind.com & www.pets4you.com - if you are unsure if they are from them, just check the address (Salisbury, NC or Kevin or Danielle Settineri) in case they relocate/rename their site again. *Also check the age of the parents & ask to see veterinary certificates of health. They were arrested for forging them!
History of Neko...
Neko @ 6 weeks old (look @ how underweight he was.
We decided to purchase "Neko", a Tamaskan Wolfdog, in May of 2009 from Kevin Settineri of Right Puppy Kennel located at: 2230 Old Union Road, Salisbury, NC. We were told he was a Tamaskan Wolfdog (some emails he said Tamaskan, some said Tamaskan Wolfdog, we never really knew for sure what Neko was 100%) & his parents were "Tasha" & "Tumble". Neko was born 4/2/09. We picked him up in person, as Kevin "LET US" pick him up at 6 weeks of age (no reputable breeder will let you do that - 8 weeks minimum)! His mother "Tasha" greeted us outside when we first drove in, she was skinny but friendly. Tamaskan, Shiba Inu's and Wolfdogs were housed in a filthy wet small garage area. There were numerous Shiba Inu's climbing the 6' cage walls trying to get out (he told me he had 40 in an email later). He said he was in the process of adding onto the property. Neko was in a small wet wire crate on the ground with his other 13 brothers/sisters. They were scared and all bunched up together. We were brought around the building to see the parents, we were shown a cage of "Tamaskans & Wolves" where one of them was "supposedly" Neko's father. this is when we first figured it was a puppy mill, because no reputable breeder would house this many dogs "temporarily" in this situation. But what could we do, we had already drove hours to get there. I asked for Neko's registration papers, pedigree, vaccinations and health certificate. The only thing we received was a customer pet record, showing he received his first vaccines & was dewormed, nothing signed from a veterinarian.
We proceeded to drive home the next day after spending a night in a hotel. Neko would not eat for the first 3 days (which is not too uncommon), but then he had uncontrollable diarehea for 3 straight months. We brought him to the vet numerous times trying to get rid of it. It was giardia (a bacteria caused by unsanitary conditions) and he had a weak stomach were you couldn't switch his food, w/o him getting it again. When we originally took Neko to the vet (10 days after we were home), he weighed only 6.04 lbs. at 7 weeks of age!
Long story short, Neko developed severe epilepsy at almost 3 years of age (3/27/12), which is when it usually shows up. He developed them seemingly overnight (but with research, we now know that it was is his genetics all along, and Kevin never bothered to stop breeding the dogs with the problems). He suffered from monthly seizures that we tried to control with phenobarbital. We asked Kevin if he ever had seizures in his lines, he responded "only one customer had an issue with seizures in the past, I'm not sure what she did to treat them" (which is a lie I now know of many cases of epilepsy that was reported to him). He never asked how Neko was, never contacted me. But I always received his emails stating when new puppies were for sale, which was constant!
Eventually we had to add potassium bromide to the phenobarbital to try to prevent the seizures, but it did not stop them. He had them like clockwork every month, almost to the day. On 2/18/13 through 2/19/13 - Neko suffered from over 20 seizures in one night, every time we thought he was going to pull out of it, they kept coming. Sadly, we had to make the decision to end his suffering on 2/20/13 due to the uncontrollable seizures.
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We proceeded to drive home the next day after spending a night in a hotel. Neko would not eat for the first 3 days (which is not too uncommon), but then he had uncontrollable diarehea for 3 straight months. We brought him to the vet numerous times trying to get rid of it. It was giardia (a bacteria caused by unsanitary conditions) and he had a weak stomach were you couldn't switch his food, w/o him getting it again. When we originally took Neko to the vet (10 days after we were home), he weighed only 6.04 lbs. at 7 weeks of age!
Long story short, Neko developed severe epilepsy at almost 3 years of age (3/27/12), which is when it usually shows up. He developed them seemingly overnight (but with research, we now know that it was is his genetics all along, and Kevin never bothered to stop breeding the dogs with the problems). He suffered from monthly seizures that we tried to control with phenobarbital. We asked Kevin if he ever had seizures in his lines, he responded "only one customer had an issue with seizures in the past, I'm not sure what she did to treat them" (which is a lie I now know of many cases of epilepsy that was reported to him). He never asked how Neko was, never contacted me. But I always received his emails stating when new puppies were for sale, which was constant!
Eventually we had to add potassium bromide to the phenobarbital to try to prevent the seizures, but it did not stop them. He had them like clockwork every month, almost to the day. On 2/18/13 through 2/19/13 - Neko suffered from over 20 seizures in one night, every time we thought he was going to pull out of it, they kept coming. Sadly, we had to make the decision to end his suffering on 2/20/13 due to the uncontrollable seizures.
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