First off, I would like to say my family's dog was boarded several times at this facility (which were great experiences) before this most recently, scary visit.
Our dog was taken care of by this facility while my family and I had to go to Alabama a few weeks back. When we returned, my husband picked him up and for the first 24 hours of being home, he had diarrhea which is typical for him (he gets nervous when we leave town). When it did not subsided, we started to become concerned and became extremely concerned when we noticed his stool also started to contain blood. I didn't unpack all of his belongings when he got home (too consumed with unpacking our baby girls belongings from the road trip) so nothing gave me an indication that this might be Freed's fault. To my surprise, as I unpacked our dogs belongings, I realized the FULL jar of peanut butter I left with the facility was GONE. In Freed's defense, myself and Amanda at the front desk were very thorough with writing down all of the info needed, but thinking back, I never gave them info on how much peanut butter to give him in his kong. ANYONE who knows and loves dogs should have the common sense that a 16oz jar of peanut butter should not be consumed in its entirety in a 4 day span. I was shocked when I realized Freed gave my boy 16oz of peanut butter in a 4 day span. And it was then clear to me that this issue was 100% caused by Freed's clinic. I called his vet and a vet tech friend of mine and both said put him on a rice and pumpkin diet, but if it doesn't clear up in 24 hours, take him straight to the vet. Well he wouldn't eat any of it. His poop went from diarrhea to blood in his diarrhea to straight BLOOD in a 3 day span. I took him to the vet and they stated this issue was 100% caused by Freed giving him an entire jar of peanut butter. Peanut butter in small amounts does not hurt dogs but when a full jar is consumed, the fat content can mess with their systems. Our vet was very surprised he didn't end up with pancreatitis. I proceeded to call Freed to explain to them what happened and asked for them to either refund us the money we paid for boarding him or refund us his vet bill since this was their fault. The manager, Susan, stated she would discuss this issue with the owner and she would call be back with what they decide to do. I received a voicemail today that stated they would credit 10% of my dogs visit to his account so we can use it the next time he stays there. I made it very clear with Susan in the initial phone call that he would not be returning to their facility since this happened. Also, 10% of the bill is equal to $11. 11. dollars. That's it. That's how much they do not care about my boy. I called the facility back and spoke with Susan and stated that was NOT good enough for what we went through. I said it's disgusting that $11 is all my pup is worth and their facility obviously does not care about animals that come to their facility. I would have felt better them saying they wouldn't reimbursement us at all than receive a slap in the face of 11 bucks. I was disgusted. I proceeded to tell Susan all we want is a reimbursement and an apology (which I had not even received yet). She did give us an apology and said sorry we don't agree with what happened. I became VERY annoyed when she proceeded to say the 2 staff members in the back said the jar was full when we dropped him off and it wasn't empty when we picked him up AND that Amanda stated she tried to get info from me THREE TIMES and I wouldn't give it to her. I became LIVID!! Flat out lies. The manager just lied to me. Really? They don't want to own up to their mistakes and just apologize and reimburse us? But now LYING?! Why wouldn't I want to give them all of the info needed? The "3 times" really set me off. And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Susan came up with that on her own. Amanda was WONDERFUL when I dropped him off and although I do not know her at all, I can't see her lying about something like that. It's sad that Susan is the authority figure there. She is extremely disrespectful and rude. All that being said, our pup will never return to Freed. read more