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Large-box pet shop bondage like PetSmart and Petco have a long laundry list of incidents involving animals who have been traumatized, allowed to escape, severely injured, and even killed in their training salons. Dogs like July and Coco:

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These giant corporations deal in volume. The animals they sell come from vicious mass-convenance mills, where they're crammed into crowded bins; deprived of food, water, and veterinary care; and killed past being bashed against tables or gassed in coolers. The training businesses shove animals through chop-chop and ofttimes carelessly. The boarding facilities, like PetSmart'due south PetsHotel, are just as bad. Many dogs and other animals have go ill or died, often from neglect, afterwards being left at 1 of these boarding businesses.

Turn a profit is their priority, and as a effect, countless animals have strangled after beingness left unattended on grooming tables; overheated in muzzle dryers; been badly cut on the ears by clippers; and been screamed at, roughly handled, punched, kicked, and strangled by frustrated, impatient, and calumniating groomers at these chains' stores. An investigation conducted by NJ Advance Media confirmed these agonizing findings after examining the suspicious deaths of 47 dogs who died during or shortly after PetSmart grooming appointments between 2008 and 2018. The investigation uncovered "hugger-mugger agreements," poor grooming, and pressure put on employees to meet sales quotas.

Click here to read NJ Advance Media'southward total report.

Permit the heartbreaking stories below serve as reminders that companionship is non something that can be capitalized upon and that these corporations take no regard for animals' lives, in either their store windows or grooming salons.

ANIMALS INJURED AND KILLED AT PETSMART AND PETCO Training SALONS AND BOARDING FACILITIES

While PETA has been alerted to countless other incidents and many have gone unreported, here are but some of the many animals whose suffering and deaths in PetSmart and Petco grooming salons and boarding facilities take made the news:

January 2021

On Jan xviii, William and Elma Hall reportedly took their 3-year-old canis familiaris named Max to a Venice, Florida, Petco store for what they thought would be a routine preparation session. The appointment turned out to exist Max and the Halls' worst nightmare come up true.

Petco Groomer Allegedly Kills Dog Named Max

Max, pictured here prior to his Petco grooming session, was reportedly a well-cared-for 3-year-old dog with no underlying wellness conditions.

In a lawsuit that the Halls filed confronting Petco Animal Supplies Stores, Inc., the guardians are contending that a Petco groomer placed Max "in what appeared to be a tight harness that was too small for the size of his neck . . . a Groomer's Helper which is a noose apparatus." Co-ordinate to the lawsuit, when Elma asked the employee whether the harness was prophylactic for Max, the groomer "firmly asserted that the harness was the proper harness for Max." But when Max "became restless and began to move," the groomer began "wrestling" him and even asked other employees to assist. The initial groomer "and other employees wrestled Max for over five minutes during which fourth dimension he barbarous and was moved around while his neck remained in a fixed position." Eventually, "Max collapsed on the grooming table unconscious." Petco staff put his unconscious and possibly lifeless trunk in a crate and took him to an creature hospital in another city, according to the Halls' lawsuit, even though Max's ain veterinarian's office was in the same city.

Petco Groomer Allegedly Kills Dog Named Max

Following a Petco grooming session, Max was apparently dead.

Petco staff allegedly refused to tell Elma what had happened to Max. Only when William contacted the store and indicated that he'd exist notifying law enforcement did Petco finally inform Max's guardian that the domestic dog was beingness transported to an animal infirmary for "injuries." "Despite said disclosure, Petco, without whatsoever justification, refused to disclose what happened to Max and the condition he was in," the lawsuit says. The guardians "were deprived of all ability to make medical decisions for Max due to the refusal of Venice Petco employees to provide them with information near Max," including whether a necropsy would be performed—Petco'south alleged decisions and actions ensured that the Halls would never become such confirmation or closure.

The Halls contacted PETA, wanting to share their story and warn guardians to stay far away from Petco and its dreadful grooming centers.

Had the Halls been enlightened of countless by Petco preparation injuries and deaths—including the slew of incidents detailed below—they never would take frequented the chain. They honey Max—he was part of the family. Please, don't let your honey family unit member be Petco's next casualty. Learn how to groom your dog safely at home, and click below to help PETA and the Halls spread the word:

November 2020

When A.J. Ross dropped off her domestic dog, named Kobe, at a PetSmart store in Pittsburgh on November 17, 2020, for what should have been a routine nail trim, she never imagined that she'd return to find his lifeless body on the grooming tabular array. "The final thing on my listen was this would be a death sentence," she said. Ross has shared her story in the hope that it'll force the chain to overhaul its scandal-ridden grooming practices: "There are no specific standards, and anyone can just wake up 1 day and do a six-hour online course and have your pet'due south life in their hands," she told NJ Accelerate Media. "There should be more accountability and oversight." And she's already moving the needle: On May 5, four PetSmart employees were charged with felony cruelty to animals.

Oct 2020

"Delight continue to share Simon'due south story and never groom your pets at [a PetSmart] facility. Nosotros would non want to meet your pet suffer." That's the bulletin a dog's guardian had for her Instagram followers subsequently visiting a PetSmart training salon. According to her, Simon the domestic dog adult a skin infection after beingness groomed at i of the concatenation's salons.

The woman took to Instagram to tell others that PetSmart staff apparently "did not want to run across [the dog] immediately even after showing them the bad situation [S]imon was in." Then she took the pup to his veterinarian, who allegedly confirmed that "it was not [allergies, that] information technology was an actual infection he got from being [g]roomed."

"We have learned that [grooming] a pet could be very dangerous if they exercise not carefully sanitize equipment and [common] areas," she continued in the Instagram post.

"It breaks our hearts to see this large visitor non [caring] for pets in a situation like the ane [S]imon had to be in," the guardian wrote, announcing that she'd no longer exist a PetSmart customer.

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July 2020

On July 23, 2019, Sherrilyn Miller took her dog, Winter, to a PetSmart shop in San Leandro, California, for a grooming engagement. For an extra $three, Miller opted to have bows put on the dog's ears. The next morning, as reported by The Mercury News following an interview with Miller, Winter appeared lethargic—her ears "looked like black coal" and were leaking fluid. To Miller'due south "shock and horror," she discovered that the PetSmart employee had wound condom bands tightly around the ears to secure the bows, cutting off circulation. Emergency surgery apparently saved the dog's ears—and her life. She reportedly would have lost her ears within a few hours and would have been dead within a day had Miller not rushed her to a veterinarian.

PetSmart reportedly admitted that the employee had undergone "expedited" training. At present, Miller is suing PetSmart over the incident—she says that Winter is traumatized and Miller fears that unless PetSmart makes serious changes, it'south a matter of when, not if, this will happen to another dog.

"[T]his groomer'southward deportment, in particular, were so far below the standard of care in the industry that information technology is shocking," said Alison Cordova, the attorney representing Miller, in a statement. "Imagine if a day care center sent your kid habitation with rubber bands so tightly wound around their petty ears that their ears had turned blackness and difficult and were dripping liquid. That is what happened hither, only with Sherrilyn'southward dog."

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Jan 2020

Minni'south guardian wanted to become the spunky 2-year-sometime pup a bathroom and a boom trim. Just thirteen minutes later, Minni apparently became the latest victim to die at a PetSmart grooming appointment.

Just a few days afterwards Christmas, Vikki Seifert took Minni to a Las Vegas PetSmart for a 6:thirty p.grand. appointment, browsing while she waited. But then Seifert saw employees running toward the grooming expanse. "I ran in in that location," she told news outlets. "When I went in, she was crushed nether a grooming tabular array. They said that they had listened for her heartbeat and she was gone."

Dislocated and brokenhearted, Seifert says that no one could tell her what had happened. "They told me my dog was expressionless by 6:43 p.m.," Seifert reported. "What were these two groomers doing? … How does a domestic dog go in for a bath and get crushed in 13 minutes?"

This tragedy and the many others like it are one reason why PETA urges guardians not to support PetSmart and Petco stores. Our eyewitnesses have also documented pervasive corruption of the smaller species sold at that place, both at the stores and at the convenance mills from which they're purchased and shipped.

November 2019

What should've been a routine grooming session at Petco turned deadly for a young dog named Dali. Unsurprisingly, Petco employees are remaining tight-lipped about what went down.

On November 5, Mafang Yao took her canine companion, Dali, to her local Santa Clara, California, Petco preparation center. Co-ordinate to Yao, Dali was "active, healthy and hyper" when she dropped him off—he even played with another dog he met in the shop. But when she returned an hr later, she was told that Dali had experienced breathing issues and had been rushed to Silicon Valley Pet Dispensary. Co-ordinate to medical records, he was admitted to the dispensary because he was "stressed" and "panting and lethargic after training." A veterinary reportedly told Yao that 10-rays showed fluid in the dog'due south lungs. According to Yao, Petco is refusing to release any details nigh what happened to Dali while he was in the company's care, despite its claims of having conducted "a thorough review" of what occurred in the grooming salon.

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In the same month, Angela Weeks thought she was taking her dog, Baylee, in for a routine haircut, but the trip to her local Cleveland, Tennessee, Petco groomer turned out to exist anything just routine. Baylee was sporting 2 bows—an adornment for each ear—when Weeks picked her up from the appointment. Three days later, when she removed the bows from what she assumed would be Baylee'south fur, Weeks realized that the Petco groomer had tied one of them around the dog's ear, not her fur. Baylee's left ear was swollen from the lack of circulation and had to be amputated.

Petco reportedly admitted that Baylee's groomer hadn't followed protocol and had been let become. According to Weeks, the company as well tried to offer her a $500 recompense. She said that a Petco official "kept wanting me to requite him a number as to what I felt like this was worth and I said y'all know, I can't tell you lot that."

Unfortunately, Baylee'southward injury is 1 of many that dogs have sustained at Petco and PetSmart grooming centers across the country. Please, don't let your dog be adjacent.

August 2019

A 4-year-old dog named Jelly is recovering from skull fractures and internal injuries that he sustained, allegedly from being abused by an employee of a PetSmart store in Daly City, California.

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Workers who plant the American Eskimo dog unresponsive in a kennel began reviewing security tapes and reportedly witnessed footage of an employee violently slamming him to the store's concrete flooring. Authorities have charged the employee with cruelty to animals, but he's pleaded not guilty.

Unfortunately, Jelly's story is but the latest of many reports and accusations against the company and its employees for abuse and neglect of animals. Delight, don't let your beast companion exist next.

July 2019

In the latest saga in which PetSmart harms animals, a dog's nose was cut open on July thirty at the Chester, Virginia, PetSmart grooming center.

When employees called the canis familiaris's guardian, Victoria Lawhorne, to inform her of the incident, they reportedly said that the dog, Osito, "was moving a tiny bit too much and [they] accidentally cutting his nose." Lawhorne said, "A piece of his nose was kind of missing and open up and … you could run into meat inside and claret."

Although there are multiple veterinarian clinics within a 10-infinitesimal radius of the PetSmart location where Osito had been injured, he was first transported to the Colonial Heights Banfield Pet Infirmary, roughly 20 minutes away. Then he was transferred to Brute Medical Heart in Midlothian, roughly twoscore minutes from Banfield. PetSmart employees apparently told Lawhorne that they took him to the second location because the first i charges "an arm and a leg." It took virtually six hours for Osito to be treated. "From four:30 'til about ten:thirty … my dog was in the vet because they decided to shop from vet to vet because ane was more expensive than the other, [and] that shouldn't have happened," Lawhorne lamented.

Earlier this month, Nikki Blakeney took her domestic dog, Kobe, to a PetSmart grooming center in Charlotte, North Carolina. When she picked him up, she became concerned—co-ordinate to reports, the domestic dog'southward left middle appeared irritated. "It was bittersweet," she said.

Blakeney tried to inquire PetSmart if shampoo had gotten into Kobe's eye, but the store's staff proceeded to do what they typically do: deny, deny, deny. When the canis familiaris's condition didn't amend but rather his eye shut completely, Blakeney had him examined. A veterinarian said that he had likely been cut under his cornea, according to the video above.

Kobe'south injury is i of many that dogs accept sustained at PetSmart stores beyond the U.S.

We urge Blakeney and all other animal guardians non to visit PetSmart or Petco stores and to opt for at-dwelling grooming instead.

May 2019

Darren Harris took his x-month-former English bulldog, Enzo, to a PetSmart grooming salon in Pelham, New York. The fauna was dead inside an hour, PIX11.com reported on May 21.

Thirty minutes subsequently Harris dropped Enzo off, PetSmart staff called him, urging him to "come quickly." The dog had been transferred to the Banfield Pet Hospital inside the PetSmart shop.

"He had lost and then much oxygen he didn't recognize me. He was slowly dying," said Harris' female parent, Tabitha Harris. According to reports, a necropsy was never done, and so Enzo'south cause of expiry can't be known for sure. "[Due west]e trusted these people," she lamented.

Co-ordinate to reports, the Harrises both said that they wouldn't accept taken Enzo to a PetSmart groomer had they known nearly the slew of injuries and deaths detailed below. So please, larn from these grieving guardians' mistakes—never visit a PetSmart store.

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April 2019

It'southward been a calendar week since 1-year-one-time pup Simba went missing from a Petco store in Hanover, Pennsylvania, during a preparation appointment. His guardian, Melissa Greyness, told a news outlet, "I am furious. I go on going back and along from crying to focusing on finding him, only you lot can't help just be mad that this company that is supposed to take care of your dog—that y'all're paying to take care of your dog—is the one that lost him."

Grayness dropped Simba off to be groomed on April 15, and simply an hour subsequently, the store chosen to tell her that he was gone. According to the store, he was able to get out of a kennel, "push through" a sliding door, jump over a latched half-door, push open the door to the grooming center, and escape through the store entrance.

Gray and her children, who adopted Simba on Valentine's Day, are determinedly searching for him. They're working with local news media and a lost-beast group called Find Toby.

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Update: Later being lost for several days, thankfully Simba was found and reunited with his family unit.

March 2019

Police are investigating after a 1-year-old companion canis familiaris named Sarge died while being clean-cut at an Otsego Canton, New York, Petco shop. Co-ordinate to the mom of Sarge'south guardian, he was good for you and alert prior to the appointment. According to a statement released past Petco corporate representatives, "protocols were not followed" during the dog's routine bath and nail-trim appointment. The company's solution? Offer to assist his guardian "find a new pet." Please, for your domestic dog'south sake, never visit Petco.

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February 2019

A family unit in Royal Oak, Michigan, has told news outlets that afterwards their dog, Coco, sustained multiple cuts and scratches to her face during a grooming appointment at PetSmart, the store gave them dissimilar stories nearly what had happened to her.

JoAnn and her daughter Andrea—who asked reporters not to release their last proper noun—said that not long after they had dropped Coco off to be groomed, they received a telephone call from the store saying that she had been banging her caput against a cage, causing open wounds, and that they should run into her at the vet'south office.

But then, according to the family, the story inverse. In a follow-up conversation the side by side day, PetSmart reportedly said that Coco had fallen off a tabular array and hurt herself. The women said that they doubt both stories. According to them, she would never repeatedly striking her caput and hurt herself, and they think the injuries await similar she was involved in a fight with another dog.

"I really believe, with all my heart, they're lying," said JoAnn.

"I but desire them to realize what they've done wrong," Andrea said, "and to attempt to prevent information technology from happening again."

November 2018

An hour after guardian Tania Lara dropped off her small dog, Susie, for a preparation appointment at the PetSmart store in Cleaved Arrow, Oklahoma, she received a worrisome call from a store employee. She rushed back to detect Susie bleeding, crying, and unable to close her mouth. Employees had reportedly attempted to have her to the in-store veterinarian, but the vet was decorated. So Lara rushed Susie to her vet, who said that the dog'southward jaw was broken in two places. She had to be hospitalized and given a feeding tube, and she underwent surgery—for which Lara received a bill totaling near $4,500. When she tried to file a constabulary report, she was told to file through PetSmart offset. Every bit of the fourth dimension of this publication, she hadn't however heard from the visitor.

October 2018

A dog is expressionless and a adult female is injured after a mastiff broke out of a cage at a PetSmart shop on Chicago's Southwest Side. The domestic dog reportedly chip an employee's arm and killed some other dog in the grooming center. The incident is still under investigation, according to reports.

September 2018

Catherine Hess took her canine companion, Duchess, to the Belleville, Illinois, PetSmart earlier this month for a bathroom and a nail trim. But when she picked her upward from the appointment, something wasn't correct. Hess said that Duchess' breathing was labored, her tail was between her legs, and "it looked like they took a pair of clippers and merely twisted off her toenails." Hess took Duchess to the vet, where she was told that the dog's bloodwork looked normal. Merely her condition worsened over the next mean solar day or two, then Hess took her to the vet again, where it was discovered that Duchess' lungs had collapsed. Out of compassion and necessity, she was euthanized. Unsurprisingly, PetSmart is claiming no culpability.

Baboo—a seven-year-old shih tzu—reportedly sustained a cleaved jaw during a September 16 grooming appointment at the Clark, New Jersey, Petco. According to his guardian, Jennifer Fay Collins, prior to the appointment, he was in practiced wellness. But when she picked him up afterward, "something seemed off." The groomer blamed it on the vaccinations that Baboo had received the day earlier. But subsequent X-rays revealed that he had sustained a fractured jaw and needed surgery. According to Collins, Petco staff are still refusing to acknowledge any wrongdoing.

Within the same month, Teddy—a Yorkshire terrier—was taken to a North Texas PetSmart for grooming. The dog, who was reportedly in good health, was said to have left his date subdued, weak, and with difficulty animate. He was dead a few hours later. "I would like to tell anybody that may be taking their dogs up at that place [the Cedar Colina, Texas, PetSmart] just to be mindful considering I didn't know. Something is admittedly wrong," said Tim Daffin, Teddy'due south guardian.

Not fifty-fifty one week prior to this, a new investigation bankrupt that was conducted by NJ Advance Media. It examined the suspicious deaths of 47 dogs (not counting Teddy) who died during or shortly subsequently PetSmart grooming appointments. Just every bit PETA's investigations take revealed in the past, this written report shines a light on the pet store chain's coin-hungry practices and the heartbreaking fatalities they cause.

The 47 deaths that were investigated occurred between 2008 and now—and 32 of them since 2015. NJ Accelerate Media pointed out in its written report that not all training-related deaths that occur at PetSmart are publicly reported—and so the death toll since 2008 is probable much higher than 47.

"Our investigation finds undercover agreements and allegations of inadequate grooming and intense force per unit area to grow profits inside the leading U.S. pet retailer," NJ Accelerate Media reported.

PetSmart employees are reportedly pressured to groom more dogs in less fourth dimension in order to maximize profits, resulting in fatal errors. Co-ordinate to the new written report, PetSmart has attempted to purchase the silence of some of these dogs' guardians—offering them money if they agreed to sign a nondisclosure agreement. Simply guardians are refusing to be silenced. Many shared their stories with NJ Advance Media, each one just every bit heartbreaking equally the last.

Even PetSmart's response to the investigation was telling—despite dozens of deaths, the visitor is claiming that in that location'south no "systemic problem" here.

Click here to read the full written report, and keep reading to discover fifty-fifty more than reasons why you should never accept your animal companion to a PetSmart.

Baronial 2018

A canis familiaris named Dozer died after visiting a Lynchburg, Virginia, PetSmart grooming salon. According to reports, the 7-year-former domestic dog was dropped off at around three:53 p.1000. About x minutes later on, his guardians got a call from PetSmart staff maxim that he had collapsed. He was taken to an animal emergency dispensary, where it was determined that he'd probable had a eye attack.

According to his guardian, Dozer was healthy prior to visiting PetSmart. Emergency animal veterinary Jay Harper explained why these environments can be stressful enough to harm dogs.

"Usually there are lots of other dogs, it'due south hot, it's noisy. Lots of clippers and scissors. The big accident dryers they use are loud," he said.

Apartment-faced dogs such as English language bulldogs (like Dozer) can be even more vulnerable. In brachycephalic syndrome, the brusque, broad skulls of sure breeds can create breathing problems considering of shortened air passages. To minimize risks, guardians should avert the stressful environments of grooming salons like those at PetSmart and Petco. Spas may be a relaxing place for humans, only they tin can be the reverse for our canine companions. Acquire more nigh best grooming practices here.

In a separate Baronial 2018 incident, Cynthia Beezer took July—her 4-year-old canine companion—to a PetSmart store in Compton, California, to exist groomed. According to reports, July virtually lost her tongue later a PetSmart groomer cut information technology "damn nearly off." Beezer shared a photograph of July in a now viral tweet, saying that the incident occurred while the fur around her face was being trimmed. Of course, PetSmart is blaming the domestic dog, proverb that she stuck her tongue out just equally the groomer was trimming her face. But according to Beezer, July's natural language naturally always hangs out of her oral cavity—she said the "unique" trait is fifty-fifty i of the reasons she first noticed her. She chosen the incident an deed of negligence and said that PetSmart groomers should exist better trained—only this incident and the slew of horrifying others below bear witness that guardians should never trust PetSmart with their brute companions.

In a separate August 2018 incident, a dog named Rufus was dropped off at a PetSmart boarding facility in Tucson, Arizona. A few hours later, the family received a phone telephone call—he had eaten plastic and was existence taken to an emergency veterinarian. According to the family unit, the veterinary told them that Rufus had been hit by a car on his way to the infirmary and had died.

July 2018

According to reports, a 10-month-old puppy named Ziggy was injured during a PetSmart training session in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Staff members allegedly told the dog's guardian that he had been attacked past a Bully Dane while being groomed. All the same, the clean, straight laceration and the flap of peel that was left hanging off the pocket-size canis familiaris'due south body have led many online to wonder whether that's true. A law report was filed, and an investigation is ongoing.(Warning: graphic images)

In a separate July 2018 incident, Corey Dixon took his four-twelvemonth-old service dog, Aspen, to a Toronto PetSmart's PetsHotel for a weeklong stay while he was out of town. Simply when he returned to pick her upward, she was "extremely sick," shaking, and surrounded by vomit and saliva. He rushed her to an emergenandcy animal infirmary, where she remained in intensive intendance for several days.

Aspen'due south condition worsened, and when she began struggling to breathe, her family made the painful decision to let her get. It's believed that she became ill while in PetSmart's care and that staff didn't immediately telephone call the vet. "If she'd seen the vet when she started showing signs of being ill, maybe she would accept had a better take a chance," Dixon said. Unsurprisingly, PetSmart denied any culpability.

May 2018

On May 22, Brandi Villarreal picked up her dog, Lexi, from a PetSmart store in San Antonio, Texas, and establish her distressed and breathing heavily. Her tongue was blue, and her gums were purple. After multiple trips to the vet over the adjacent two days—during which time PetSmart chosen the distraught Villarreal requesting the veterinarian paperwork—the previously healthy dog was found to have a consolidation in her chest (fluid in the lungs), likely acquired by trauma, and had to be euthanized because of her declining status.

In a divide May 2018 incident, the Soto family took their little dog, Fabio, to the local PetSmart in Tampa, Florida, to be groomed. Just over an hour after dropping him off, he was dead. The Sotos got a call from PetSmart telling them that their dog was unresponsive and they needed to come up back to the store immediately. Workers reportedly brought over the veterinarian from the on-site Banfield Pet Infirmary, but the domestic dog went into cardiac arrest, and the vet wasn't able to save him. Then, according to the family, PetSmart offered to purchase them a new canis familiaris—merely with a caveat: They would have to sign a nondisclosure agreement prohibiting them from discussing their experience with media outlets. The family unit declined the offering, and a necropsy study after revealed that Fabio had heartworms and cited stress equally a cistron contributing to the cardiac arrest.

Apr 2018

Ollie, a four-month-old Maltese mix, sustained a cleaved leg during a preparation session at a Petco in San Antonio.

March 2018

Oliver Buttons, an 18-month-old cairn terrier, needed stitches for lacerations to his face up and neck as well every bit surgical gum for nicks all over his body inflicted by a Petco groomer in Appleton, Wisconsin.

A cat named Cloudy died during a preparation session at a Petco in Providence, Rhode Island.

Abby, an 8-year-old corgi, died during a grooming session at a PetSmart in Toms River, New Jersey.

February 2018

A PetSmart groomer in Houston was fired after a video of her violently handling a small domestic dog went viral.

December 2017

At least one canis familiaris allegedly died, and another sustained a back injury, after beingness taken to a New Bailiwick of jersey PetSmart for grooming.

An 8-year-old shih tzu named George reportedly returned home in farthermost hurting and arching his back. Veterinarians found that he'd sustained a dorsum injury and prescribed him heavy steroids and 10 days of cage confinement.

Another dog, named Ranger—who was allegedly lethargic after returning home—died two days after Christmas Eve. His heartbroken guardian had to suspension the news of his death to her children on Christmas forenoon.

July 2017

Michigan resident Allison Yates and her married man claimed that Beauvine, their vii-year-erstwhile Groovy Dane, lost 28 pounds in the nine days he spent at a PetSmart PetsHotel in Rochester Hills. The couple said that they chose the PetsHotel because the facility offered soundproof rooms and private time, and their dog has a nervous temperament. According to Yates, PetSmart chosen four days into Beauvine's stay to report that he had diarrhea and had vomited. Had she known the severity of his condition, Yates said, she would take returned dwelling immediately.

The couple claims that when they dropped Beauvine off at the PetsHotel, he weighed 138 pounds, just when they picked him up—ix days after—he weighed only 110 pounds. They likewise said that their veterinarian informed them that Beauvine was dehydrated and appeared to have "been neglected for a week."

March 2017

Ollie, a 5-twelvemonth-old pug in Newport, Rhode Isle, died afterward a training session at Petco. E.J. Finocchio, president of the Rhode Isle Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said that it was clear the Petco technicians were not trained to deal with an emergency. "It'due south very troubling here, what happened," he said. "We accept an otherwise healthy dog that goes to take his nails clipped, and he ends up dead, and there'south non much we can do about it."

When Pepper got habitation from a grooming session at a La Quinta, California, PetSmart, she wasn't acting like herself. Her guardian immediately took her to the vet, who found that the canis familiaris had ruptured blood vessels as a effect of "some sort of trauma." While PetSmart denied wrongdoing, it paid for Pepper'south vet bills.

August 2016

When Demon's guardian came to pick him up from a grooming session at an O'Fallon, Illinois, PetSmart, she immediately noticed that he had labored animate. He was rushed to the vet, where it was discovered that his temperature was over 103 degrees. Inside twenty minutes of arriving at the vet, he was dead.

June 2016

When 5-year-erstwhile Casper was taken to a Petco groomer in Moses Lake, Washington, his guardian, Desiree, had no thought that he'd never make it back home. Instead of getting a phone call from the shop to permit her know that her dog was fix to be picked up, she got a call informing her that he was "non-responsive" and being taken to the vet. Sadly, he passed away.

May 2016

A dachshund named Henry reportedly died afterwards being taken to a California PetSmart for a routine training session, and an employee was arrested on suspicion of felony cruelty to animals. According to reports, merely minutes later Henry was dropped off for a haircut, employee Juan Zarate emerged from the preparation office with the dog, who was haemorrhage from the mouth and having difficulty breathing, and took him to an on-site veterinary. He was said to have died shortly after the vet began treatment, however in the store. His guardian may never know exactly what happened in the back room of that PetSmart store, but a necropsy revealed that the canis familiaris had sustained 2 broken ribs and a punctured lung and died of strangulation.

April 2016

Shortly afterwards Buff, an 11-year-onetime golden retriever, went in for training at a Poway, California, Petco, he began to have trouble walking and developed an infection. Presently subsequently, he died.

March 2015

An employee of an Atlanta Petco was fired after reportedly beingness defenseless on a cell phone video violently yanking on a dog'south paw and shoving the terrified animal around on a grooming tabular array while trying to clip his or her nails.

July 2014

When Sierra was taken to a Beckley, West Virginia, PetSmart for grooming, she came home with razor burns and a cut on her foot pad that needed suturing. PetSmart paid for the dog's vet bills.

July 2011

A California woman reportedly sued Petco after her domestic dog Sadie suffered from rut stroke, internal haemorrhage, and burns when a groomer left her locked inside a cage dryer. Sadie had to be euthanized because of the extent of her injuries.

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If it isn't possible to groom your animate being companions yourself, hire a groomer who makes house calls, and insist on staying with them at all times during the process. Groomers who take nothing to hibernate should welcome your presence, and it'll aid your animal companions to experience at ease, too.

Always thoroughly research and screen potential groomers, and don't hesitate to go your animal companions and leave if something seems suspicious or "off." Here are more than tips on finding a reputable groomer:

  • Choose veteran groomers who are confident in their skills, recognize their own limitations, and are knowledgeable nigh animate being behavior. An experienced professional person will know the individual needs of different types of dogs. For example, elderly dogs may take heart problems, and some breeds may have animate problems. All these factors are of special business when information technology comes to bathing, drying, brushing, and clipping. If a groomer appears to be afraid of or impatient with animals, take them elsewhere.
  • Consult the Ameliorate Business Agency regarding groomers you're considering using, and do Google searches to see if any patrons take encountered issues with them. Look on Google, Yelp, and other review sites for comments from previous and current customers.
  • Request references from other clients.
  • Use a groomer who is a graduate of a preparation plan and a member of a trade organization. Although groomers aren't required to exist licensed, an amalgamation with groups similar the National Domestic dog Groomers Association of America, Inc., can bespeak experience and professionalism. Show of participation in industry seminars is besides a practiced sign.

If, despite all your precautions, your creature companion is injured by a groomer, you can file a small-claims conform or a lawsuit confronting the groomer or salon. Y'all can besides warn other beast guardians non to patronize the groomer by sharing your story with local boob tube stations and newspapers.

You tin utilise many of these aforementioned rules when choosing a sitter for your fauna companion. Your best bet is to select someone yous know personally and trust, such every bit a relative, close friend, coworker, or neighbor. Be sure that the person you cull likes and is comfortable around companion animals. Information technology's best to have the person come to your firm at to the lowest degree in one case prior to your trip so that he or she can run into and get acquainted with your animals. Click here for more tips on finding the right companion-brute sitter.

Remember, you're your animal companions family members' advocate and protector. Never simply mitt them over to service providers while simply hoping for the all-time.

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Pledge never to buy pet supplies from retailers that sell any animals. Let PetSmart officials know that y'all'll store at businesses that don't sell animals—such equally Target, Walgreens, or online retailers—instead:

Accept you lot had your own nightmare experience with preparation services at PetSmart or Petco? Use #PetSmartGroomingNightmares or #PetcoGroomingNightmares to share your animal companion'south story on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram—urge your family, friends, and followers to shun these big-box pet store chains and their cruel practices.

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Source: https://www.peta.org/blog/animals-injured-and-killed-at-petsmart-and-petco/