Elina Darling, whose blog is here; http://theflashmans.blogspot.com, contacted me, saying there were a rare species of foxes I had wanted to adopt for sale in a local pet shop, Corsac Foxes, and she asked me if I wanted to adopt them. Our verbal agreement was that she would pick up the male/female Corsac Fox pair for me and drop them off at the airport.
However, the foxes turned out not to be tame, so she told me she had a breeder who also runs a zoo who she would be getting kits from in the spring time. This is the guy she was supposed to get multiple kits from. I said I would love having kits, and I would wait until her contact's foxes had babies. However, there were complications and no babies survived.
So she found a broker who was questionable but he supposedly had two foxes, male and female, available. Well she found out that he fixed the females, because he didn't want anyone else to breed them. But her contact was supposed to have more baby foxes born, so we would switch the fixed female for an intact female so I would have a breeding pair of babies.
So I paid her $3,805 dollars, $3845 once the bank charged fees for the wire transfer, and she picked up the pair of foxes from the broker. However, the female was supposedly killed by the male, and I have never seen any evidence of this. Elina and her husband Andrew C. Griffin (who I sent the money to via bank transfer) both said they would 'gift' me kits for 'my loss' the following year when more were born. [All of this is in the messages I have saved between her and I]. If any of you want the messages her and I exchanged, contact me at fennecfoxes.webs@gmail.com so you know the truth.
However, she started telling me the male fox (Fable) wasn't tame, wouldn't make a good pet, etc. etc. and I should sell him. She also told me I would need someone to sign off on a paper to say he wasn't a protected animal so we could ship him to the US. Well after a month or two's worth of calling airports in the UK, calling airlines, brokers, etc. seeing how I could get these papers, I called the CITES office (the people Elina told me required the papers). However, they told me that I would never need papers since he is not a protected species and they didn't know who told me I would.
When I told Elina that, and that now we could schedule the flight, Elina tried to charge me 200 pounds more for food, she said. That equals $327.27 for food for almost two months. She also said she hadn't taken him to the Vet yet, so asked for more money there. While I already lost $1922 on the 'dead' female, I started to think this was a scam for money, with her asking $327 more, plus about $100 for Vet bills, plus shipping which I would have to pay about $382 (a quote from the airline). So all in all after she asked me for $3845 and failed to produce a female like we agreed on, she asked for a total of $809 more.
I started to feel like she was scamming me for the most money, and now my male baby fox, Fable, is still under her care. This is why I am not getting Corsac Foxes this year. Oh, and she slandered me on a forum called Sybil's Den, straight-up lying to them and bashing my name (I have messages between us in a PDF file proving she is lying). They also blocked me from the forums so I cannot defend myself.
She is also saying my first fox was not a foster. Well she was supposed to be. Her name was Sora. She was supposed to be a foster for a friend. They are a friend who are on all the boards, forums, etc., so for their privacy, I told everyone it was a foster. I tried to leave it at that. Being I was in a dorm at the time, I knew I would not be able to keep her indefinitely. However, my friend told me they would not be able to afford them anymore so I could either have her or do what I want. I paid my friend for her because obviously I was attached, even though in the back of my mind I knew a dorm was no place for a fox. I kept telling myself I would just hide her until I got an apt., but someone found out and I was forced to be homeless or find her a new home. I still talk to the people who have Sora, and she is happy.
If you have any questions about the previous foxes I have had, or the lies she is spreading around about me, email me at fennecfoxes.webs@gmail.com. I have nothing to hide, unlike her.
If she treats animals like this, and she is a doctor, I wonder how she handles the humans under her care?
