Before you board your pets please research as much as you can on who is personally going to take care of them. Ask around and see what other people think about the animal shelter and how they treat the animals. Find someone you trust who will take care of them, perhaps someone who has already been around your animal previously. Or plan to take them with you.

Recently my husband and I took our son to college. We had very little room in our vehicle available so we decided to board our pets, our two girls, Nina and Ashley with a local animal shelter where we thought they were in excellent hands. I called twice a day to check up on them, each time they told me everything was alright. On the day I was to pick them up I received an urgent call. Ashley was found dead in the kennel. They believe she had a reaction to a new drug she was given called Rimadyl. She was given this drug because her right leg was giving her a little bit of trouble. When I dropped her off, I asked them to see if perhaps their veterinarian could take a look. I was never informed about them giving her this drug, or the side effects associated with it.

I just did some research on the drug and there are reports of serious adverse reactions which can occur without warning (sudden death). The signs are; loss of appetite, nausea and diarrhea. On her discharge paper she had two of these symptoms and when we picked her up her face was wet. If I had known at all about any of this beforehand then I would no doubt have done things differently. I can't help but wonder, if only we had taken her with us then she might still be alive.

This was the first time I have ever boarded my pets and will certainly be the last. It's horrible when it costs a precious life like this for one to learn such a lesson. So I advise any and all animal lovers out there to heed this warning. The welfare of our pets should be as important to animal shelters as they are to us...

Sincerely,
Teresa Wayman

You have all the heart felt feelings in me comimg your way! I am so sorry. I am kind of a joke around here because I put our dogs first. I will not go pay bills unless my wife stays with the dogs. I understand what you are saying and agree 100%.

I will be thinking of you.

Shouse

A little something I helped to write for my aunt to put in the local paper.

Please pass my thoughts on to her!

Will do. Thanks.

Sorry Kris I know how hard it is to lose a pet

Wow. I'm gonna think twice before letting my parents board our dog...

my thoughts.

Damn, that sucks. And I bet she was still expected to pay the boarding fees. On another note, I was going to say, when did you get a husband? But then I saw that you were writing this for someone else.

I can't imagine I would feel like it was my fault. Just like I do bcuz I tried to saved the last one and ended up puting him through alot of unnecessesary pain.

We have just been watching an Animal Planet hurricane rescue show and it's pissing me off. These people in New Orleans know a killer hurricane is coming for them. So they leave and go several states away...and leave their damned pets behind! Then act all sad that their "beloved" pets are left in a chaotic warzone and are on the verge of death. If these people had the ability to leave then they could've taken their pets with them.

Like this one old lady. She had an 18 year old cat. She was going to go to her daughter's house in Arizona and the daughter suggested her leaving the cat in the 2nd story of the office building the mother worked in. She gets to AZ and registers the cat as missing on a hurricane Katrina animal rescue website. 5 weeks later this senior cat is just about dead and they find her. This lady shouldn't get her car back! Why couldn't she take it to AZ with her? Why didn't the daughter say she could bring it with her? If the hurricane is bad enough for YOU it's bad enough for your freaking pets!