Beloved dog dies during PetSmart grooming and grief-stricken owner wants answers
The call was cold, abrupt and confusing.
A PetSmart employee told Chuck Crawford his beloved dog Abby was dead and gave him info on where to pick up the carcass.
"It was a 20-second phone call. It was so crude and beyond comprehension," Crawford said. "To take your pet for a grooming, and then have them die? That is the absolute worst thing."
Crawford dropped both his corgis, Abby and Harley, off at the Toms River PetSmart for a grooming at 8 a.m. on March 29. When he got a call around 9:45 a.m., he expected to get word they were ready for pickup.
Harley was fine, he said. But Abby wasn't even at the Toms River store. The 8-year-old dog had been taken by PetSmart employees to the company's Brick store. That's where he could retrieve the dog's carcass, he said he was told..
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