While I can't stop blaming myself for not trusting my gut feeling about Timothy Helser from the first day I met him and doing my due diligence to research this man PRIOR to him almost KILLING my dog, I've decided to try to move on by sharing my story so hopefully the next person who does meet him and gets that same "something just doesn't seem right" feeling and turns to the internet will see this most recent account of what he has done to not only my dog, but my entire family.
Recent is actually an understatement. And he will know exactly who this is based not only on my screen name, but also on the timing of this post as it was just 2 hours ago that a police officer had to accompany my family to Timothy Helser's home to retrieve my dog from his care only to find that he was being kept in the most deplorable and unsanitary conditions you can imagine and had a skin infection covering his entire body, which was easily noticable due to him no longer having any fur. We took our pet directly to the nearest veterinary hospital where he was imediately put on an IV and antibiotics, but not until after he was put on the scale to be weighed where we learned that the 89lb dog we turned over to Timothy's care for "boarding" just 60 days ago now weighs just 63lbs.
In addition to feeling terrible for leaving our pet in the care of someone who obviously did not care for him properly, I can't help but keep running the math through my head of how we were billed (an paid) over $800 to reimburse Timothy for vet visits (which we were told had his skin infection totally cleared up a month ago and now he was just on one more month of maintenance antibiotic/steroids) and also being billed for $60 bags of dog food, which supposedly he was going through two 50-lb bags each month.in no situation does 200lbs of dogfood in 2 months attribute to a dog losing 25lbs. AND, at no time were we told that our dog's skin infection was getting worse (as I said, he told us it was better and almost cleared up with any fur he'd lost from scratching himself "growing back") nor were we told our dog was sick in any way, losing a ton of weight, or being kept in a filthy cage filled with urine, feces and vomit.
The vet is estimating he will need to keep our dog for 2 - 3 weeks to monitor him IF he makes it past the next 48 hours. IF! As I said, in addition to blaming this man for what he's done (and taking the proper legal actions against him) I am also mad at myself for not turning to the internet to read all the similar stories others have posted over the years until now. Luckily my family realized we needed to remove our dog from his care when a red flag went off 3 weeks ago when he stalked us for a payment that wasn't due for another 20 days and threatended to keep our dog for breach of contract. It was bizarre behavior and made me wonder what was really going on that he needed that money so desperately and would even mention us not getting our dog back EVER. Additionally, he wouldn't send any pictures or videos of our dog as promised and cancelled an appointment with a family member who flew into town just to see the dog.
I don't know how this man sleeps at night but he better say a prayer tonight that our dog makes a full recovery or the additional $8,500 that we paid for our dog will be added to the lawsuit my lawyer is already preparing and a posting on usacomplaints.com will be the least of his worries.
And Timothy, if you're reading this, the fact that you had a nerve to send us a text while we were in the Vet Hospital with our dog threatening to get your "lawyer" to sue us for the $296 we supposedly owe you for food (that you obviously weren't feeding our dog) and prescription medicine for the dog's skin (that you obviously weren't giving our dog) is the only part of this situation that is funny at all. Feel free to give your "lawyer" my direct line.
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