Josef Mravik, of Eurosport K9 - Slovakia - Page 1

Josef Mravik, of Eurosport K9 - Slovakia sold me a dog with an ruptured anal sack abscess and stage 3 heart worms.

I have asked him repeatedly to pay for medical expenses and he refuses.

I bought this dog after Josef and Taunya's divorce, and after she gave the company to him as part of the divorce settlement.

Taunya was able to get a few dogs away from him prior to the divorce and has litters occasionally, she stands by her customers, but has no influence on his business decisions.

I warn everyone - do not purchase any dog from Josef Mravik - he is a cheat.

photo of anal gland abscess the day she arrived.
it ruptured while in transport.

this leaves me in a weird state of mind, josef was on my short list of trusted breeders, i would like to hear another side to this situation.

Well, the stage 3 heartworm is inexcusable, but the ruptured anal sac may or may not be the seller's liability--depending on how long the dog was in travel channels, it is quite possible to have a previously normal anal sac to become impacted and rupture over the course of three days. I've had and encountered dogs that would not relieve themselves unless they were off-lead, or were allowed to be at  distance from all persons before they'd have a bowel movement, which can be difficult to arrange when a dog is being shipped by air or even when traveling by land. It's also possible that the dog wasn't given enough opportunity to relieve herself during the transit process and had no choice but to hold her bowel movements for an overly long period of time. This can lead to impaction of the anal sacs, and when sufficiently impacted the sac can easily rupture. Best case scenario is that it bursts directly through the perineum, as opposed to rupturing via small fistulous tracts into the tissue surrounding the sac.

The heartworm infection, however, is unconscionable, and it would seem only fair that the seller reimburse the buyer for the cost of treatment, which will likely be a prolonged process due to lack of availability of the preferred product used to kill the adult heartworms. Good luck in collecting from here in the US, however.

i do hope josef himself feels the need to provide an explanation - i hate being wrong.

I warned Josef that I would be making this issue public, he told me to go ahead. This has been going on since May.

vk4gsd, 
I pm'd you with more information.

Hexe
Hanah's transportation lasted less than 24 hours. When my vet examined her, he said that the gland tissue was hard indicating the infection had been there long enough for scar tissue to develop.

Hanah has been treated the heartworms, time will tell what damage has been done to her heart and lungs.

IMO.  Josef is not trustworthy....Taunya is trustworthy...
Now that they are divorced and Taunya is living in the USA, she no longer has influence over what Josef does.

BTW........map of heartworm cases in Europe and this is at least 2 years old.

I'm betting the the countries showing up in white do not even check for them.
 

SitasMom, that does change the picture, if scar tissue was already laid down. Sorry to hear that.

I think I am right in saying that the few cases of heartworm
so far identified in the UK have all been in imported dogs ?

ie  Not endemic to the UK, so no regular checks or treatment.


Kim, sorry to hear about this, and so sorry also for the bitch,
my colleague's L/C  'Lulu' developed one of those anal gland
abscesses, it wasn't very nice for her ...

HM, interesting point you made about the dogs being imported.
I exported several pups to Canada recently, and I instructed all the new owners to put their pups on heart worm preventative for three months after the pups turned four months old. The reason, of corse, is because heart worm is endemic here in the US. So, since the pups were too young to be treated before they left my care and they were undoubtedly bitten by mosquitoes here, there would likely be microfilaria in the pups.

even if a dog is old enough to be on preventative when shipped overseas they should be kept on the same type of preventative for a period of time.  Most preventatives don't actually keep the dog from developing larva which are what develop into heart worms.  The preventatives actually  target a certain point in their development in which they are susceptible to what ever poison they are using in their heartworm preventative.  So what it really does is keep the larva from developing into adults.  So they can have larva in their bloodstream and still be on medication.  So a dog shipped overseas who was on preventative but then taken off the larva then continue to develop and become heart worm positive.

edited to add: I am mainly talking about dogs shipped from the U.S. oversees.   I am sure sitas Mom took the dog to the vet right off and discovered these problems.