I am appalled at how unprofessional this business was to me during a rather lengthy telephone conversation...
I called pooches and mutts hoping to find a place for my 2 year old lab (and possible terrier/pit bull mix) to stay for a few hours while I attended a hockey game in Green Bay. I was staying with my grandparents in Pulaski for the remainder of the Thanksgiving weekend but due to Chicago traffic, I could not drop him off at my grandparents and make it to the game on time.
I was quickly asked the breed of my dog and replied that he was a lab mix. Mind you, his paperwork says lab but we have been told by others at our dog park and our trainer that he looks to have terrier/pit bull in him as well. Being an honest person, I told him that he may be mixed with terrier/pit bull. After hearing this, he proceeded to call me a "LIAR" - stating "you're trying to pass a pit bull off as a lab". Along with this, he stated that "I have a problem with pit bull owners, they are all liars" and that pit bulls are not welcome at his establishment because of this. I tried to explain to him that our dog's paperwork says "labrador retriever and mix" and that he does not look anything like a purebred pit bull but I merely wanted to be honest and tell him that others have suggested he may be mixed with pit bull. The man did not want to listen to a word of this - he insisted that I was a liar and questioned why I did not board him back at home (silly question, I didn't want to be away from him for the whole Thanksgiving holiday!).
To make matters worse, as I tried to get off the phone with him he progressed to sarcastically tell me many times that I would understand "when I grow up". The real kicker was when I mentioned that I was so upset at the way he was treating me that I would like to write a review of this to warn others, his reply was a sarcastic, "Oh, you're scaring the pants off of me!".
The man that I talked to was extremely disrespectful to me and prejudiced toward owners of a specific breed of dog. If the man that I talked to treated another human this poorly, I can only imagine how he might treat a dog. read more