Purchased another golden retriever puppy to add to our family. I thought I'd try Petland.instead of a usual breeder. Puppies looked good in there windows. My fiance and I played with an 8 week old golden retriever in the little kennel. He was hyper and playful. We decided to finance him for a total of 1200.00.
When we got home about three hours later after playing with him... The puupy laid down and took a nap. About an hour later the puppy threw up all his food and even some undigested... He hardly ate that much when he got to our house, but threw up an amount larger then his body... For a couple more hours he was getting sicker, would'nt eat or drink and continued to throw up, now a mucous... Around the early evening he stopped vomiting and started to have mudpie diarhea with a very foul odor... The puppy was also very lethargic...
So my fiance decided to call petland and tell them you sold us a very sick dog... They said it was stress... We are both paramedics and know that is not possible and being dog owners as is, we knew he was very sick. Petland said to bring him in for observation if we wanted or take him to the vet, but its not covered by them... We bought the dog that very same day and we have to cover his illness??? Not to mention the puppy comes with papers stating he is purebred, not sick is healthy, and has a warrenty...
I went online to do research... Its bull... I also looked up this so called breeder that the pet store said they new personally... Its Top Notch Breeders... I found out they are a puppymill. And almost 80% of there dogs are defective or have the very same illiness hundreds and thousands of the same complaints. Also stating its from stress...
So i come home from work that night. I decided to stay up and take care of the little guy. He had one spell of watery diahrea which still smelled foul, and slept all night. He still would not eat or drink... The next morning I took him out he went potty and came in. Five minutes later he has bloody mucousy watery diarhea and layed down. I grabbed him and took him back to petland..
I walked in very angry with all his papers. I explained what happened, they again said stress, i said bullcrap. They said said ok well he looks ok well send him to our vet next door and keep him over night... They told me to make my one week appointment for him. I went over there and they said they work with all petland pets and i have to pay for this visit, after dropping 1200.00 dollars. I was livid. I turned around and noticed one of my neighbors walked in with there new dog from petland... What a surprise. He was very sick with a resiratory infection... Again another thing mentioned in the many complaints about petland. She was also upset and curious why both our dogs we just bought were sick... We also found it strange that only the certain vets petland uses are only allowed for this so called warrenty on the animals.
I also called an old friend of mine who used to work at petland, he said oh my god you should not have bought a dog from there... They are cruel to there animals, and dont take care of them, they use puppy mills, alot have so many problems, and or die within a year, u cant return the dogs, and you liable for anything medical they need which cost u thousands in the end... He also said that there were so many secrets about that store that if it ever got out would shut them down!!!
Well thats personally what I think needs to happen... THese poor animals, these poor heartbroken people, and the lots of money spent thats wasted... I want justice not only for me but anyone who has had a problem with them... You should be reimbursed for the animal full amout, you should be able to keep it because your attached, and all medical expenses shuld be covered for the life expectancy of these poor animals... Petland is the worst purchase I could have done not only for my family but for my check book... Someone needs to do something about this!!!
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