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I found another fake listing this morning. Someone on Amazon is selling a bottle that says "Healthy Petz Liquid Collagen" for $24.99 with Prime shipping. It's not us. It's never been us. I'm Barbara. I founded Healthy Petz. And this is the third time this year I've had to post about this because people keep buying counterfeit bottles from Amazon and then messaging me asking why it's not working. It's not working because it's not my product. Let me tell you what happened last month. A woman named Diane emailed me. Subject line: "Your product is a scam." She said she'd been giving her dog Healthy Petz collagen for 9 weeks. Ordered it from Amazon because it was cheaper and she had Prime. Her dog was still scratching. Still getting ear infections. Still chewing paws. Zero improvement in 9 weeks. She wanted her money back. She was angry. She was done. I asked her to take a photo of the bottle and email it to me. The label looked almost right. Almost. But the font spacing was off by about a millimeter. The color was slightly too dark. And on the bottom of the bottle — where every bottle I produce has a batch number stamped into the plastic — there was nothing. Smooth. No batch number. Because it wasn't my bottle. Diane had been giving her dog a counterfeit product for 9 weeks thinking it was mine. Her dog suffered for 9 more weeks. She lost money. She lost time. She lost faith in the one approach that could have actually helped. And she almost gave up entirely. I sent Diane a real bottle from my facility. Free. Overnight. I told her to start over. Real product this time. 60-day guarantee from me personally. Week 3 she texted me: "Barbara something is happening. The scratching is slowing down." Week 5: "His ears are clean. First time in months. I keep checking. Clean every time." Week 7: "I am so angry at Amazon right now. This IS working. The fake one did NOTHING. I wasted 9 weeks." Nine weeks. Her dog scratched for nine extra weeks because someone on Amazon put a fake label on a bottle of garbage. This is why I don't sell on Amazon. Not because I don't want the convenience. Not because I don't want Prime customers. Because I can't control what happens on that platform. I can't control who counterfeits my product. I can't control what's inside bottles that use my brand name without my permission. When you buy from Amazon you might get: A counterfeit bottle with the wrong collagen types. Type IV collagen does nothing for the skin barrier. The barrier is made of types I and III. Wrong types = zero barrier repair. Heat-processed collagen where the peptides are already destroyed. Cold processing preserves the molecular structure. Heat processing destroys it. You're giving your dog dead protein. A bottle that's been sitting in a hot Amazon warehouse for months degrading. Collagen degrades with heat and time. Our bottles ship direct from temperature-controlled storage. Amazon warehouses in Phoenix hit 120 degrees in summer. That bottle has been cooking. A product with 60% of the claimed collagen content. We tested a counterfeit last year. 60% of labeled dose. Your dog is getting barely half of what the barrier needs. Molecular weight over 20,000 Daltons — seven times larger than ours. Too big to absorb. Passes straight through the gut. The dog eats it and it comes right back out. Zero reaches the barrier. I've sent five cease and desist letters to Amazon sellers this year. They take down the listing. A new one pops up the next week under a different seller name. Same fake product. Different account. I can't win that fight. Amazon is too big and there's too much money in counterfeiting popular supplements. So I'm asking you directly. Please buy from my website. Not Amazon. Not Chewy. Not eBay. Not anyone else. shophealthypetz.com/products/liquidcollagen When you order from this link: Every bottle is produced in our GMP-certified facility. Cold-processed. All three collagen types — I II and III. Hydrolyzed peptides under 3,000 Daltons for maximum absorption. 98% bioavailability. Every batch is third-party tested by an independent lab before it ships. I see the certificate of analysis personally. If it doesn't pass it doesn't leave the facility. Every bottle has a batch number stamped on the bottom. If you ever have a question about what's inside your specific bottle I can pull the lab results for that exact batch and show you. Every order ships direct from our temperature-controlled warehouse. Not sitting in a hot Amazon fulfillment center for months. Fresh. Verified. Real. 60-day money back guarantee. If your dog doesn't improve you get every penny back. From me. Not from some random Amazon seller who disappears when you try to get a refund on a counterfeit. I know Amazon is convenient. I know Prime is fast. I know it feels safer. But I've had 14 customers this year alone contact me after buying fake Healthy Petz from Amazon. 14 dogs that suffered for weeks or months on counterfeit garbage while their owners thought my product didn't work. It works. 50,000+ dogs. 4.9 star rating. 88% improvement within 4-6 weeks. It works when it's the real product. But it can't work if it's not real. Please order from my website. I ship fast. I have a guarantee. And you'll get the actual product that's helped 50,000+ dogs instead of whatever Amazon is putting in a box with my name on it. The multipack is the best value — brings it down to about $17 a bottle. Spring sale right now up to 40% off. shophealthypetz.com/products/liquidcollagen Your dog deserves the real thing. Not a counterfeit from someone who doesn't care what happens after they get your $24.99. I care. That's why I'm posting this instead of just filing another complaint that goes nowhere. If you already bought from Amazon — check the bottom of the bottle. If there's no batch number stamped into the plastic it's not mine. Email me at [email protected] and I'll make it right. Nobody's dog should suffer because of a counterfeiter. Nobody's.