Maria Portell

Review of Pinellas County Animal Service...

My dog is dead thanks to them. I went to Animal Se...

My dog is dead thanks to them. I went to Animal Services looking for my dog two consecutive days, filling a yellow form each day with the info about the dog and owner. They took me to the cages to see if she was there. No, she was not there. Did the same the day after, no success. Three days later, I found by myself, NOT because they notified me, that my dog WAS there the first day I went looking for her, and that she had been euthanized two hours before I was there. Nobody notified me of that important thing, so I continued looking for her...

Why filling forms that nobody over there reads? What kind of mess is this? The veterinarian Erik Pindal euthanized her in exactly 8 minutes, without doing any kind of tests, not giving her the four days holding period, center s policy for stray dogs, not giving her any chance to find her owner, not even few hours, time enough for me to find her, since as I mentioned before, I was there just two hours after he sacrificed her.

Later on, I found that she was hit by a car the day before and taken by a passerby to an emergency veterinary clinic, since in that moment Animal Services were closed. They gave her an excellent care in that clinic for 24 hours, she even ate very well and she was stable. The records did not indicate any damage in the organs.The morning after they called to Animal Services to come and pick up the dog. As soon she arrived to the center she went, with all the records from the clinic, (where it is written very clearly that she ate well. A dying dog will not eat) to Dr. Pindal, who in exactly 8 minutes (I have records) sacrificed her without performing any tests, not giving her any chance at all, even after being informed by the clinic that somebody called them a couple of days before asking for a lost terrier.

I wrote a letter to the veterinarian Erik Pindal and also to the director of the center. Never heard from them. Bad direction, bad organization with paperwork, and worse of all, a veterinarian without a heart.

For them my dog was just a number, for me was MY dog. She just was a lost dog, lost forever thanks to them.

Give one star because they can not let me give ZERO or minus stars.

Maria Portell