Major and Maddie had gotten out of the fence the day before and JR and I had spent about 2 hours driving around looking for them. Well since they still had not shown up, we decided to call the dog pound to see if they might be there. First of all I know that I am just spoiled with the small town pound but who would guess your LOCAL pound was over 3o minutes away! And not only that but they were not able to give us a good description of the chocolate and yellow labs that they had there.... SO it was off to the pound just to see what we could find.
And here is what we finally found-
The main villain who was so ashamed he wouldnt even look at his momma
And Maddie girl, who was so excited to see her mom but knew she was in trouble for following Major's lead!!!So good news was that we found them.. but that was the ONLY good news. Soon after we went to "reclaim" them at the counter we got the worst news possible. Again I am still thinking small town pound where like in Rockwood you just go and pick them up.. NO CHARGE! Yea well that didnt happen here in the big city of Raleigh. First we had to pay a $50/dog reclaim fee, and this was just the first offense fee. Another $8/per night for each dog for staying the night there. AND GET THIS........... $100/dog fee because the dog catcher caught them. Did you get that??? Yea thats a total of $316 to get our crazy 2 dogs out!!!!!
Needless to say we thought this was a bit ridiculous and when I called JR to tell him what was going on he was NOT very happy. He asked to speak to the manager and told him how ridiculous the fees were, especially since we could have gone to the same place and adopted OUR dogs for just $120. How does that make sense??? Well we will be heading to court in a few weeks to fight for our rights to let them know this was a BIT ridiculous. And on top of all of that we found out that they picked them up right outside of our neighborhood!!!!
Arghhhhhhhhhhhh..... so mad!!! And you better believe if they go there again we will probably just leave them ha!
Not true about the small town pound not charging! Remember when someone on my road called the pound on my 2 dogs when they got loose?! It cost us $250 to get them out!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI still live in little old rockwood and they have changed the rules somewhat my sister lives in webster subdivision and she had 4 dogs get loose and had to pay fines to get them back, she went and paid them before court and they told her she did not have to appear and then arrested her cause she didn't of course after her bond was paid there was no charges./refunds or apologies!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat an awful experience! I hope your doggies are on their best behavior from now on :)
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness!!!
ReplyDeleteOh me oh my! Not good you guys. SO sorry about all of this. I hope those doggies know how lucky they are to have such good parents to love on them even after doing something so naughty. I saw something about this on JR's facebook page. I hope they have some sympathy in court and give some of that money back! Just not right!
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