Allison Scarborough resides by way of each canine proprietor’s worst nightmare after a fireplace broke out at a doggie daycare facility the place her two dogs have been staying.
“I got a phone call from WSDOT that they had found my dog dead on the side of I-5 and I needed to pick up her body,” she stated.
Scarborough is on trip celebrating turning into cancer-free however information that her canine Georgie was killed and her canine Remi remains to be lacking, has left her heartbroken.
Scarborough stated she was notified of her canine’s demise by the Washington State Department of Transportation and never, ‘The Dog Resort’ in SODO the place she left Georgie and Remi whereas she was in a foreign country.
“I was panicking and trying to get a hold of someone, nobody picked up,” she stated.
“I called them to say, ‘I just got a phone call my dog is dead. What’s happening and where is Remi?’ And they were unaware she had been killed, Georgie had been killed, and they had no updates on Remi,” she stated.
Scarborough stated the group has been useful in making an attempt to find Remi however at this level, her canine remains to be lacking.
“Means I’m going to have to go home to her missing posters I guess,” she stated.
The facility has been tight-lipped about the entire incident. KIRO 7 has reached out to the proprietor a number of instances and the proprietor wouldn’t take any direct questions however did say she was targeted on coping with the scenario.
Other canine house owners, like Ben Lowy, who’ve boarded their pets on the facility, stated they weren’t instructed something concerning the fireplace.
“It’s pretty frustrating, especially considering that this is not the first time this has happened for this company,” Lowy stated.
Back in February, ‘The Dog Resort’ in Lake City additionally burned. Lowy used to take his canine Mushu there and was going to board him for the approaching holidays on the SODO location.
“I can’t imagine sending him back to a place where, sounds like the first fire was due to a lint build-up in a dryer, but I feel like two strikes is probably two, too many,” Lowy stated.
KIRO 7 additionally realized that at the very least two civil lawsuits have been introduced in opposition to the corporate relationship again to 2011. Both lawsuits declare negligence of the corporate and that the plaintiffs have been allegedly bitten by dogs at The Dog Resort.
One of the fits was dropped as a result of the plaintiff in that case died and his household not needed to pursue it, nevertheless, KIRO 7 remains to be ready to listen to again from the opposite regulation agency on that go well with.
As of Tuesday night, KIRO 7 has confirmed that two dogs, Remi and North, are nonetheless lacking.
