Thursday, January 17, 2008

You kinda have to "bail them out"..... WHAT?!?!

Well last week we spent several days searching our neighborhood for 2 missing dogs. One was my parents black lab, Brutus and the other was Gracies puppy, Bo. We looked and looked and called them, never to find them. On friday last week, Trampas called the animal shelter to see is just maybe someone had taken them in. He gave them a very detailed description and they said they didn't have them but took his number just in case they showed up. So we spent the weekend still looking and on Saturday evening we got a call from a neighbor that another neighbor (owner of several dogs themselves) had called animal control to come and get our 2 "strays". I mean come on, they are both very well groomed dogs with matching collars on. So it was too late on Sat. to call the shelter and they are closed on Sun and Mon. Finally Tuesday comes and I give them a call. I answered a million questions and she finally says oh yeah they are here. Whew...what a relief. Then she goes on to say "you kinda have to bail them out when you come pick them up. I was like hmm well okay. Then she starts spouting off all these fees.... I was getting madder by the second and I said, without thinking (kinda lost my cool), that is bull S***. She says ooooo, then she whispers to someone else standing near her "she just used profanity, she said bull s***". Well for some reason that ran all over me and so I asked her how much she was charging me for profanity... she proceeds to tell me that it will cost $155 each to get our dogs out!!!!! Can you believe that!! It only costs $80 to go down there and adopt one. Well, come to find out they picked the dogs up on tuesday the 8th so when Trampas called them on the 11th, they didn't even go look to see if they were there. They charge you so much per day per dog, so if they had told us on the 11th that they had them we could've saved a ton of money. Well I told her all of this and all she said was "hmm well i don't know what to say". RIght...that's what I would say too... Well I went and told daddy what they said and he was like no way am I spening that kind of money on a dog that was given to me. Well I had an emotional breakdown. I called Trampas and I was just squalling "daddy won't go get Brutus for $155 but you have to get Bo, I don't care what you have to pay". I mean I was tore up!! Well Trampas called them and went thru the same stuff with them but he just told them he was NOT paying for his dog but he was coming to get him! Biggo teddy bear Trampas acting all tough... well he goes down there and they weren't backing down either. So he leaved w/out the dog. Later that night I was just so tore up about it and Gracie was devastated b/c her dogs were in puppy jail, so Trampas called my dad and they decided they would go back the next day, yesterday, to get them both out for me and Gracie. Well they went and when they walked in the lady working said that she would take $22 each...so to end this long story... we got our puppies back!! Bo was so pitiful..he went to sleep on the porch last night at 9 and this morning at 5:45 he was still in the exact same spot!!
I just wanna say thanks to my neighbor for calling in on these 2 puppies!!!

1 comments:

Lindsey said...

oh my my. those neighbors werent the isham crew were they? oh gees i hope not!