We contracted to a puppy with Debra Bourassa aka Debra Drury at Munchkinland Chihuahuas on Christmas 2010. By reading all of the other complaints, she has operated under several different names, websites, etc. We fell in love with a female chocolate that was only 3 weeks at the time. We sent our deposit to Debra and were contracted for $1300 on the little dog. She is still up on her site (as of 3/17/11) but may have changed her name now. She is the extra tiny chocolate female. She was our family Christmas present. For over THREE months, we watched her grow through pictures and video. Every morning my kids piled into the study to load up her website and get our Bunny update. We named her Bunny because Debra said he had an overbite, apparently also called a “bunny bite.” We’re not familiar with breeding terms but knew this was a flaw. We didn’t care because she wasn’t for the show ring – she was to be our family pet . We even have clothes and a mongrammed bed for her.

She held this dog for over THREE months claiming she still needed to grow before she could ship her as she was turning out to be smaller than she had expected. So we agreed to do so. We had sent her two deposits at this point. Bunny grew at a slow rate but was very healthy through all communications we had with Debra and in the pics & video. She told us there was a possibility Bunny may have knee problems because she is so small and wanted to know if we wanted to pick another puppy. We told her no, and that we would pay her medical expenses should that problem arise. I had a sinking feeling she was trying to get out of the sale. Then the inevitable happens, one day she calls us and says Bunny is just too small to ship so we’ll have to pick another puppy. We told her that was out of the question, that we had a contract on that dog and that we would fly out there to pick her up. So she moves to another excuse. Well, she needs to be with someone that will be home all day. I told her I AM HOME ALL DAY. She then says its because I have kids. She knew I did! I told her my kids are ranch kids and have raised many an orphaned squirrel and rabbit. Our business is horse rehabilitation via swimming. Animal welfare is our business!! She then claims that Bunny is so small that she may have water on the brain and other medical problems and she just couldn’t let that be on her conscience. She said she might die like the Atom Ant dog (picture is on her site) that she once had and would need medical tests done. We said we would take that chance and pay for the tests because this is the dog we wanted. She refused to sell. She said she would place her only with a friend or family for an adoption fee of $500. We said, if that’s what you’re doing then adopt her to us!! And again she refused. I cried all that day and the next and needless to say, the kids were devastated. I was angry with her but believing that most people are good, I was hoping she was telling the truth but in my heart I felt like she was selling this dog out from under me. I needed to know for sure. I had my best friend contact her about Bunny. She told my best friend, that yes Bunny was for sale and that she could pick her up that Monday for $4000 !!! And then had the audacity to post her back on her website for sale for $4500 !!! Now, she’s acting as if the welfare of the puppy is her concern and only selling to an “elderly” home. That was MY DOG! We had a contract!! She realized that since the dog stayed small she was worth more money than what we had agreed to. We saved the screen shots and her correspondence for legal preceedings. We are so heartbroken and angry.

So any contract you sign with her is only to protect her so she can hold your dog and back out on it when she sees your dog is worth more money. But rest assured, she would’ve held ME to the contract if Bunny had turned out to be a 10 pounder. She’s a Dateline Scam special waiting to happen.

She claims that all the other complaints about her are conspiracies by other competitor breeders that posted under fictitious names. I can assure you that I am NO breeder. I am a real life person who just wanted to buy that dog. I don’t have to hide behind a fake name – feel free to contact me anytime. I don’t want her to do this to anyone else. If you want to investigate further make sure to search under her other name “Debra Drury” to see all of the other people she’s done this to and the other website names she’s operated under.

She devastated my family over greed, a real-life Cruella Deville.