Do NOT take your pets here for boarding!!! Let me explain my first and my very last experience with this awful place, first we checked reviews and read some pretty decent reviews and compared it with other boarding facilities and decided to go with this one. We dropped our two dogs off on Saturday and had made an appointment to do so. They stated they closed at noon, however we received a call at 11:00 from an employee letting us know they were going to close early and we had to have our dogs there before 11:30 or we no longer had an appointment. We rushed to get them there early and did make it there by 11:30. (This should have been a sign to avoid this place at any and all cost!) Our dogs had just recently had their 6 month checks-ups and were happy and very healthy pups according to our Vet. We asked what our final bill would be and we were told $84.00 but we HAD to pick them up before 11:00 on Monday. We were also told that if at any time our one dog went into heat, they would call us immediately and we would have to pick them up right away. Thankfully this did not happen, however please note that NO phone calls were given to us at any time during the coarse of the next 2 days.
When we picked up our dogs before 11:00 on Monday, our bill came to $146.00. When my husband questioned the receptionist as to why our bill was so much higher than expected, we were told that our dogs had diarrhea and worms from the moment we dropped them off so the extra charges were for the bathing they had to do to our dogs. Then he was given back the bag we dropped off with our dogs and every single bag of food was STILL in the bag. Again we questioned them why this was and we were told that they do not feed dogs with diarrhea. They did however take it upon themselves to feed pumpkin to my dogs as they assumed this would help the situation. At no point in time were we called an informed of any of this.
Keep in mind, we have no children and our dogs are like our children to us.(Yes, we are "those people.") I was furious that they did not feed our dogs for two full days and fed them pumpkin, something we would never do. I immediately took our dogs to our Vet, given the information from Archer Road Pet "Resort" and were told that our dogs did NOT have worms, as they never have and they did not have diarrhea but could have it given the pumpkin they were forced to eat. One of my dogs had cuts between all of her toes, including her back feet which appear to be from trying to get out of the crate they were caged in for two full days straight. They also had sores on their doggie elbows from lying in the crate for two full days. And one dog had lacerations around her neck from the leash they used on her.
When I finally spoke to the owner of the God Awful facility, she told me that the worms my dog had were something that could only be found when my dogs were shedding..??? Well, my dogs are ALWAYS shedding but my REAL Vet told me this was absurd but did a full and complete check-up on them anyway. The only issue with my puppies were that they weighed less than they did a month prior at their 6 month check-up from not being fed for two days straight. When I asked the owner why we received no phone call regarding our sick pups, she stated they only call when it is something "serious" and refused to accept she had done anything wrong. I guess to her, having dogs with diarrhea, with worms, not feeding them, letting them stay in their crate, oh...and of course bathing them when your facility keeps them in crates for 2 days to lie in their own urine and feces so they can charge you extra isn't really something they consider SERIOUS.
Once I explained that our Vet had checked out the dogs thoroughly and the claims they made were false, and the only issues were the ones that arose from being in their facility, she demanded we bring the dogs back to that hell hole to be examined by her. I wouldn't take my dogs back to that horrible place if you paid me a million dollars. I told her that and she then threated to come to our house to see the dogs herself. We had a third party check out the dogs that gave us this information. My husband explained to her that it would be in her best interest to never come to our house as I am beyond furious with this facility and this crazy woman.
I strongly advise ANYONE who cares about your pets at all....AVOID THIS PLACE! I will be writing a letter to the State of Florida in an attempt to have this place investigated! read more