cat breeder<\/a> gave a price of $250. Mommy agreed. But then the breeder kept tacking on charges.<\/p>\nIt hurt to watch. I kept meowing warnings, but she loved Murphy already and wouldn\u2019t give up. She wanted me to have a playmate. But at what cost?<\/p>\n
The scheme<\/p>\n
The first fees levied were clearly phony and inflated. My mom paid with gift cards. Uh oh.<\/p>\n
$900 for a city permit.<\/p>\n
$600 for change of ownership.<\/p>\n
$400 for office fees.<\/p>\n
Eventually, the charges reached $22,000.<\/p>\n
The breeder promised in writing that all money \u201cwould be fully refunded to you upon delivery of your kitten today.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Nancy Parsons\u2019 five year-old cat Opie hides under the chair at her Richardson, Texas apartment, January 13, 2026.<\/p>\n
Tom Fox \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n
There was no delivery, but the fees kept coming. They included $499 to rent a crate, along with travel, medical bills and shelter fees. She kept paying because she had fallen in love with the little guy. But there was no sign of Li\u2019l Bro.<\/p>\n
The breeder kept setting delivery dates, and then cancelling.<\/p>\n
This lasted two months. By then Mommy toughened up.<\/p>\n
She texted the breeder: \u201cSpoke with a veterinary clinic. They say there IS no FEE to change ownership!!!! All you need to do is provide them with information of new ownership. I EXPECT MY KITTEN by this afternoon!!!\u201d<\/p>\n
The breeder reassured her, \u201cYou have nothing to worry about because his (sic) in great hands and you should get Murphy alongside your total refund.\u201d<\/p>\n
The breeder postponed again saying, \u201cI still need to take new photos of him.\u201d <\/p>\n
Say what?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe shall send you pictures of your kitten as confirmation that we are in possession of your kitten so you don\u2019t have anything to worry about ok.\u201d<\/p>\n
Who is the breeder?<\/p>\n
The name she uses on her gmail account is Vanessa Williams. We don\u2019t know much about her, likely by design. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s no phone number. It\u2019s Facebook chat.<\/p>\n
By email the breeder denied to The Watchdog that she had the $22,000. \u201cShe didn\u2019t pay me that money,\u201d the breeder said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the money she paid to the delivery agency. … They promised to refund the money. I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re taking so long.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added, \u201cOnce she receives her refund then I will deliver her kitten.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mother says that makes no sense saying, \u201cShe said she\u2019d bring it but she was a no show.\u201d Same for two more delivery dates. No shows.<\/p>\n
\u2018Kicking myself\u2019<\/p>\n
Mommy is beyond upset. She\u2019s no dummy. She has two Master\u2019s degrees.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m kicking myself big time,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
I warned her. A cat can sense these things.<\/p>\n
Mommy went to the Richardson Police Department. Spokesman Mike Wieczore said, \u201cIt\u2019s early in the investigation. We\u2019re still trying to collect information.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police have clues. For starters, the money sent went to a bank in Kansas City, plus there is Vanessa\u2019s Gmail account. Plus Mommy has documentation of her actual legal name.<\/p>\n
One more thing from this cat. Mommy could have gone to the SPCA of Texas<\/a>. Spokeswoman Maura Davies said that before cats are adopted, their medical needs are handled, including vaccinations and microchips.<\/p>\nThe total cost for an SPCA cat is $175. What a cat-strophe. Meow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meow. Hello everybody. My name is Opie. I am a 5-year-old Siamese cat who lives in Richardson. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2353,294,102,104,103,959,10322],"class_list":["post-128299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-commentary","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-richardson","tag-watchdog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}