A Dallas dog owner is speaking up after her animal was fatally trampled over the weekend by another dog at a boarding center in West Dallas.
In a Facebook post Monday, Heather Heflin said her dog, Drake, was killed the previous day while he was under the care of Smart Dog Dallas. In an interview with WFAA-TVHeflin said her 6-year-old terrier mix, which she left in the care of the center on Thursday, was trampled by a larger dog.
“The one time he stays at a boarding facility, he gets brutally killed in the worst death imaginable,” Heflin informed the news station.
Boarding center staff informed Heflin that Drake remained in a confined location with the larger dog when the attack happened, the news station reported.
Heflin, through social networks posts, has actually implicated the boarding center of not separating little and big dogs and stopping working to offer suitable emergency situation care instantly following the attack. She has actually likewise implicated the center of keeping info associated to the occurrence.
“Drake was killed at Smart Dog Dallas due to their gross negligence on Sunday,” Heflin said in a Facebook post Tuesday. “I picked up his body Sunday night, and my family and I buried him on our family farm Monday.”
In a declaration released Wednesday on InstagramSmart Dog Dallas said the “unforeseeable incident” is the very first death at the center in its 11 years of operation.
“We are taking this situation very seriously and have been in contact with and available to the dog’s human family,” the declaration checked out. “The staff at Smart Dog is reeling, our hearts are broken, and we are beyond devastated at the tragic loss of the life of a precious pet.”
