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I would like to clear a few things up.
First and foremost, I am in a legal battle with Lea over a restraining order I requested against her in order to protect myself. Regardless of if I felt I should send Brittany Fangorn to right Leas wrong against her, I am not legally able to at the moment as the legal ownership of the animals is up in the air. Shipping him would be a huge mistake legally so unfortunately, patience is all we have to deal with the situation for now.
Part of the issue is that Lea left many, many animals here at my home purposefully when she vacated including animals that are hers and court ordered to be removed yet she refuses to take back. Many of the animals in this legal grey area are the gecko collection that I purchased, she bred and advertised, and told me "never sold".
I wasn't thrilled when I found out she was advertising them in June but didn't want to make waves. I figured if she managed to sell a few babies, she would back off and leave me with the adults that I had paid for and was attached to. The nature of our relationship at the time meant that Lea did as she pleased and to be honest, I was not active in the reptile community and just trying to hold my personal life together. I wasn't aware of how long she was advertising the geckos and our main dispute is over the breeding pairs of parents anyway, not the juveniles that are already produced so when she did mention she had been advertising a few of the babies but without luck, I didn't think much of it beyond annoyance that she hadn't asked me before doing it.
We agreed that the cresteds would stay with me when we were originally negotiating her moving out in very early July (before things got bad and I requested a protective order) because she had no interest or means to care for them and I had already been arguing for months that they were rightfully mine and I should be allowed to keep them since I paid for them, their housing, their food, and generally cared for their needs. Lea agreed that they were mine and I should keep them at that point and didn't say a word about the ones that apparently had sold.
When she left, she had plenty of time to grab what she wanted. She chose to not take the geckos even though she had ample opportunity, wouldn't take them later when told to remove her animals via a police escort and third party, and made zero attempts to notify me of Brittanys existence before sending her my personal information.
This is a very tenuous legal issue and I am so sorry that Brittany is caught in the middle. I told her to pursue a refund from Lea not as a brush off but because it is the quickest, most direct way to find a resolution. Brittany, you absolutely deserve a full refund at the very least but it needs to come from the person who took your money, Lea. I'm sorry that I can't right her wrong but I'm not responsible for her errors. I sympathize but this is just another manifestation of the reasoning behind all the current legal issues I'm facing.
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