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CHOCOLATE LAB
THE DOG BEGAN GOING BLIND AT A VERY EARLY AGE, THE LEGS
DID NOT GROW CORRECTLY, AND BECAME BOWLEGGED.

3.   ROCKFORD, IL
$500.00 SKIPPERKIE
DOG HAD PARVO. WAS TOLD BY PETLAND “IF IT DIES WE WILL
GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE” THE VET TREATED THE DOG, BUT LIED
ON MEDICAL PAPERS AND WOULD NOT SAY THAT THE DOG HAD
PARVO. THE PUP WAS 8 WEEKS OLD. SHE WENT TO ANOTHER
VET AND THE NEW VET SAID THE PUP WAS 2 HOURS FROM
DEATH. THE PUP SPENT 2 ½ WEEKS IN ICU AND SURVIVED, AT
GREAT EXPENSE.

4.    FREEPORT, IL
$600.00 LAB
DOG’S NAME: KATIE
AT 3 MONTHS SHOWED SEVERE HIP DYSPLASIA. TREATED BY
DR. B AT PAWS AND CLAWS IN FREEPORT. PETLAND SAID “BRING
BACK THE DOG FOR REFUND” THEY WERE TO ATTACHED AND
FEARED THE DOG WOULD BE KILLED. THEY KEPT HER.

5. POPLAR GROVE, IL
TERRIER
PUP HAD TOXIDIA. PAPERS ON THE DOG SAID THAT THE DOG
CAME FROM THE NOTORIOUS CATHY BAUCK - PUPPY MILL IN
NEW YORK. OWNERS WERE SHOCKED AS THEY BELIEVED ‘
PRIVATE BREEDERS ‘ WERE INVOLVED.

6. ROCKFORD, IL
$1000.00 GREAT DANE.
PUP HAD PARASITES, KENNEL COUGH, VERY ILL. PETLAND
OFFERED $500.00 FOR HER RETURN. THEY KEPT THE DOG.

7. POPLAR GROVE, IL
PURCHASED 2001
$660.00 BEIJING
CAN NOT LEARN ANYTHING. CAN NOT HOUSE BREAK.

8. PURCHASED 1998
$1000.00 NEOPOLITAN MASTIFF
AT THREE MONTH TWO FRONT LEGS WENT OUT. THE DOG WAS
PUT IN SPLINTS. DEHYDRATED AND MALNOURISHED. HAD TO BE
HAND FED. PETLAND SAID IT WAS NOT THEIR FAULT. GUARDIAN
CALLED THE BREEDER TO FIND OUT HOW THE DOG ENDED UP IN
ROCKFORD BECAUSE SHE PURCHASED IT AT 3 MONTHS. SHE
FOUND OUT THAT IT HAD BEEN SHIPPED AROUND IN A TRUCK
FROM PET STORE TO PET STORE.

9. ROCKFORD, IL
PURCHASED 1998
COCKER SPANIEL
COULD NEVER SWALLOW NORMALLY. AT THREE MONTHS THE
DOG WEIGHTED 3 LBS. BECAUSE IT COULD NOT EAT. OWNERS
FOUND OUT THAT IT HAD BEEN SHIPPED AROUND FROM PET
STORE TO PET STORE. THE DOG DIED AT AGE 7. AFTER MUCH
SUFFERING.

10. SHELTIE. IT LIVED 5 MONTHS
PAID $650.00
THE DOG WOULD NEVER LEAVE CAGE. HAD WOBBLY LEGS AND
COULD NOT WALK WELL. DRAINING EYES, BLOOD IN STOOL.

11. $550.00 BEGIN FINESSE
2 PARASITES AND KENNEL COUGH

12. PURCHASED IN MARCH 2003 AT THE AGE OF 4 MONTHS.
DIAGNOSED WITH EAR MITES, DYSPLASIA, KENNEL COUGH.
TREATED AT THE ANIMAL CLINIC NORTH. SPENT BETWEEN 5 TO
$7000.00 ON MEDICAL BILLS. DOG’S NAME PRINCESS
COST $1000.00

13. $700.00 COCK-APO - DOG’S NAME LILLY
PURCHASED FEB 2004.
WORMS, KENNEL COUGH

14. ROCKFORD, IL
RED PINCHER.
BLOODY STOOL, ASKED PETLAND FOR ANOTHER DOG. THEY
REFUSED. ASKED FOR MEDICAL COMPENSATION. THEY
REFUSED. THE CUSTOMER SAW OTHER DOGS IN THEIR CAGES
WITH BLOODY STOOLS.

15. ROCKFORD, IL
$1000.00 ENGLISH BULLDOG
DIAGNOSED WITH PARVO. THE DAY SHE BOUGHT HER DOG, THE
OWNER OF PETLAND CALLED HER AT HOME TO SEE HOW THE
DOG WAS. SHE THOUGHT THAT WAS VERY STRANGE. THE DOG
WAS NEAR DEATH. SHE FOUND OUT THAT THE DOGS BROTHER
HAD PARVO. SHE FEARED HER DOGS WOULD CATCH IT. PUT
THE DOG IN ONE OF THE OWNER OF PETLAND'S CLINICS. SHE
CALLED THE OWNER OF PETLAND VERY UPSET. HE CALLED HER
AT WORK AND SAID “IF YOU DON’T BACK OFF, YOU WILL NEVER
SEE YOUR DOG OR YOUR $1000.00 AGAIN” PUP ALSO
DIAGNOSED WITH PNEUMONIA, KENNEL COUGH AND PARASITES.
MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVED. THREE DAYS OF INTENSIVE MEDICAL
CARE. VERY LETHARGIC AND OTHER HEALTH PROBLEMS SINCE.

16. POMERANIAN
PURCHASED DOG 1998 AT THE AGE OF 6 MONTHS.
COST $400.00
HAS HAD SEIZURES HIS WHOLE LIFE. PETLAND TOLD HIM THEY
WERE GOING TO PUT THE DOG DOWN BECAUSE IT WAS A MUTT.
NO ONE WANTED HIM.   THE GUY SOLD HIM A MIX FOR $400.00
AND REFEREED TO HIS AS A MUTT. WHO PAYS $400.00 FOR A
MUTT. THEY KEPT HIM.

17. PEKINESE
CYSTS IN MILK GLANDS, COULD NOT BREED HER. HAD KENNEL
COUGH. PETLAND SAID IF YOU BRING THE DOG BACK WE WILL
PUT IT DOWN.

18. GENOA, WI
SHIH TZU
PURCHASED 1989
DOG WAS SICK HIS WHOLE LIFE. LIVED TO BE 11 YEARS OLD. HE
HAD BRAIN DAMAGE AND HAD TO BE CARRIED. PETLAND LIED
ABOUT HIS AGE. IT WOULD NOT COME OUT OF HIS CAGE
BECAUSE HE WAS TERRIFIED OF PEOPLE.. HE COULD NOT
WALK ACROSS THE ROOM.

19. ALSO HAD ANOTHER DOG FROM PETLAND. AFTER 2
STROKES AND GOING BLIND HE WAS PUT DOWN AT THE AGE OF
8.

20. ROCKFORD, IL
DOG PURCHASED 13 YEARS AGO
$450.00 GOLDEN RETRIEVER.
SICK RIGHT AWAY. WANTED TO RETURN AND WAS OFFERED IN
STORE CREDIT. KEPT THE DOG. DOG HAD 2 HIP SURGERIES.
COULD NOT WALK, COULD NOT BREATHE. HAD TO BE PUT
DOWN.

21. CHERRY VALLEY, IL
LHASA APSO
DOG PURCHASED 1994
DOG HAD SPINAL MENINGITIS AND LOST AN EYE. $4800.00 VET
BILLS. HAD AN ULCER BEHIND EYE. VET SAID THE MOTHER HAD
SPINAL MENINGITIS. PETLAND OFFERED HER ANOTHER DOG.
DIAGNOSIS: JUVENILE PUBIC SYMPHYSIODESIS.

22. 5 WEEK OLD KEESHOND
PAID $550.00
2002
LEGS CAME OUT OF SOCKETS AT 6 MONTHS. FULL BLOWN HIP
DYSPLASIA ON FIRST BIRTHDAY. BLADDER STONES REMOVED
VIA SURGERY. TOOK TO EMERGENCY CLINIC AND WAS PUT ON
SPECIAL DOG FOOD BECAUSE HER BODY DID NOT BREAK DOWN
FOOD CORRECTLY.
DOG HAD TOXCIDIA AT PURCHASE. $4500. VET BILLS, IRRITABLE
BOWL SYNDROME. TREATED AT NORTH MAIN ANIMAL CLINIC.
PETLAND TOLD HER THEY WOULD PUT THE DOG DOWN AND
GIVE HER AN IN STORE CREDIT.

19. ROCKFORD, IL
$500.00 LAB - LILO
APRIL 2003.
HIP DYSPLASIA BOTH HIPS. PETLAND PAID FOR FUSING. HIPS
NEVER WENT INTO SOCKET. WANTED TO DO AN FHO ON DOG
WHICH IS FOR OLDER DOGS. VET SENT HIM TO MADISON. THE
MANAGER OF PETLAND SAID THEY WOULD DO AN IN STORE
CREDIT. NO REFUND.
$3800.00 VET BILLS

23. CHERRY VALLEY, IL
$700.00 POMERANIAN - SUNSHINE.
PURCHASED 2001
DIED OF PARVO 2 WEEKS AFTER PURCHASE.

24. GERMAN SHEPHERD.
HIP DYSPLASIA

25. ROCKFORD, IL
KITTEN 3 MONTHS OLD.
KITTEN COST $50.00.
TOXCIDIA AND ROUND WORMS. VET BILLS $200.00

26. $700.00 MALTESE
PURCHASED 1999
POOR IMMUNE SYSTEM DUE TO INBREEDING. HAD MANGE,
BECAME VERY ILL WHEN SHE WENT INTO HEAT. GAVE HER AWAY.

27. GOLDEN RETRIEVER 8 WEEKS WHEN PURCHASED.
TWO WEEKS AFTER PURCHASE REALIZED THE DOG WAS BLIND.
BROUGHT THE DOG BACK AND WAS OFFERED IN STORE
CREDIT. NO REFUND.

28. $600.00 LABRADOODLE
HAD PARASITES AND YEAST IN EARS.

29 $500.00 BORDER COLLIE
HAD KENNEL COUGH AND PNEUMONIA.

30. BLUE HEALER.
BOTH HAD KENNEL COUGH AND PNEUMONIA.

31. BELOIT WI
$550.00 GERMAN SHEPHERD
PURCHASED MARCH 2005.
PUT DOWN AT 6 MONTHS. DIABETIC, BLADDER INFECTION, HIP
BONES WERE FLAT ON TOP. VET SAID WORST CASE OF HIP
DYSPLASIA HE HAD EVER SEEN.. DOG COULD NOT WALK.
$1700.00 VET BILLS. WENT BACK TO PETLAND. THE OWNER OF
PETLAND SAID HE WOULD SEE IF A RESCUE GROUP WOULD
TAKE THE DOG.

32. ROSCOE, IL
2 - $500.00 PYRENEES.
KENNEL COUGH, DIARRHEA, INTESTINAL INFECTION. FEMALE HAD
PINK EYE.   DEHYDRATION.

33. MACHESNEY PARK, IL
$850.00 MASTIC
JANUARY 2005 - CLOE
PETLAND LIED AND SAID THE DOG WAS AKC, FOUND OUT IT WAS
ACA. FAMILY ANGRY THEY COULD NOT BREED, CHILD HAD
BONDED WITH DOG AND DECIDED TO KEEP. VET TOLD DOG
NEEDED SURGERY ON HIPS. PERFORMED SURGERY. GUARDIAN
TOLD PETLAND I WOULD NEVER OF BOUGHT THIS DOG IF I KNEW
IT WAS NOT AKC. WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME?

34. $700.00 COCK-APO - LILLY
WORMS, KENNEL COUGH

35. 5 MONTH OLD JACK RUSSELL.
BOUGHT ON CLEARANCE FOR $199.00 BECAUSE THE OWNER OF
PETLAND SAID THE DOG WOULD HAVE TO BE PUT DOWN
BECAUSE IT WAS TO OLD AND WOULD BE PUT DOWN THAT
WEEK.

36. $800.00
BOUGHT A WEIMERANER
PURCHASED FEB 2005.
VERY SICK, BUBBLES COMING OUT OF NOSE, DIARRHEA,
PARASITES, PNEUMONIA, BLOOD IN STOOL, KENNEL COUGH.
OFFERED IN STORE CREDIT. SHE SAID SHE WAS GOING TO CALL
A STATE INVESTIGATOR.

37.   AMBOY, IL
SIBERIAN HUSKY PURCHASED OCTOBER 2004. KENNEL COUGH.
NASAL DISCHARGE. COULD NOT EAT. FEVER
PAID $500.00
HUSBAND CALLED REPEATEDLY ASKING WHY DID YOU SELL ME A
SICK DOG. WAS TOLD BY PETLAND IT WAS NOT THEIR
PROBLEM. WENT TO STORE. THE OWNER OF PETLAND TOLD
HIM SHUT YOUR F***ING MOUTH.

38. ROCKFORD, IL
2 ROTTWEILERS SPEND $20,000 IN MEDICAL BILLS.
PURCHASED 2002
BOTH HAD KENNEL COUGH, COLDS, WORMS AND PARASITES.
ONE OF THE PARASITES TOOK 3 MONTHS TO GET RID OF. AT
THE AGE OF 6 MONTHS BRUTUS THE MALE STARTED LIMPING.
HE DEVELOPED A LUMP ON HIS LEFT ELBOW. HE HAD
ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY. THEY HAD TO GO INTO BOTH
ELBOWS TO REMOVE CARTILAGE AND BONE. BRUTUS LIMPS
VERY BADLY BECAUSE OF OCD AND HAS TO BE CARRIED
OFTEN. TWO WEEKS AFTER THAT SURGERY HIS LEFT HIND LEG
WENT OUT. DIAGNOSIS HIP DYSPLASIA. OPTIONS WERE HIP
REPLACEMENT OR FEMORAL HEAD OSTECTAMY. OWNERS
BROKEN HEARTED. AFTER $20,000 DOLLARS THEY ARE HOPING
THE LAST LEG ON THE MALE DOES NOT GO BECAUSE THEY WILL
HAVE TO PUT HIM DOWN.

39. BISCHON - ABBY
PURCHASED DECEMBER 1998
FALSE PREGNANCY COMPLETELY ALTERED ANIMALS BEHAVIOR.
CLOUDY EYES. BEGINNING OF CATARACTS AT UNDER 2 YEARS
OF AGE. HAD TO SEE SPECIALIST FOR EYES. BLOOD IN URINE.
SCRATCHED HAIR OFF OF REAR END DUE TO SEVERELY ITCHY
SKIN. CATARACTS IN BOTH EYES.   FLEA INFESTATION, YEAST
INFECTION. HAD KIDNEY STONES.

40.   LOVES PARK, IL
NEEDED 3 DE-WORMING IMMEDIATELY AFTER PURCHASE.
BLOOD IN STOOL, WILL NOT EAT. UMBILICI HERNIA. IN SERIOUS
DANGER OF STARVING TO DEATH BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT
EAT. SEVERE COUGHING. TREATED WITH 3 DIFFERENT
MEDICATIONS.

41. LOVES PARK IL
BASSET HOUND -
PURCHASED DECEMBER 1999
BY 5 ½ MONTHS WAS LAME ON LEFT FRONT LEG. DIAGNOSIS UN
UNITED ANCONEAL PROCESS. WHICH IS A CONGENITAL DISEASE
RELATED TO THE UNEQUAL GROWTH OF THE LEGS. THIS IS A
HERITABLE COMPONENT IN GERMAN SHEPHERDS NOT IN BASSET
HOUNDS, THEREFORE THIS IS NOT A PURE BASSET HOUND. THE
STAFF AT PETLAND WOULD NOT TALK TO THEM AND AVOIDED
THEIR PHONE CALLS. WHEN THEY WENT INTO THE STORE
STAFF WAS CONVENIENTLY NOT THERE EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD
CALLED TO LET THEM KNOW SHE WAS ON HER WAY.

42. ROCKFORD, IL
PURCHASED 2002
FEMALE GERMANS SHEPHERD
DOG COST $500.00
AT THREE MONTHS SHE WAS BROUGHT IN TO DR. CAREY
THOMPSON (PETLAND'S VET) FOR SPAYING. THOMPSON
CALLED THE OWNER AND SAID "WHILE I'M AT I MIGHT AS WELL
CHECK FOR HIP DYSPLASIA" HE THEN CALLED BACK AND SAID
"SHE NEEDED HIP DYSPLASIA SURGERY". THE WOMAN WAS
UPSET AND SAID I WANT TO TALK TO MY HUSBAND, THOMPSON
PUSHED AND THE SURGERY WAS PREFORMED. THE DOG WAS
NEVER THE SAME AND COULD NOT CONTROL HER BLADDER.
SHE URINATED EVERY TWO MINUTES. ALL OF HER FUR FELL
OUT. THOMPSON PUT HER ON STEROIDS. AT THAT POINT SHE
COULD NOT URINATE AT ALL AND HER BLADDER HAD TO BE
MANUALLY SQUEEZED TO GIVE HER RELIEF. THE HUSBAND
WENT IN TO THOMPSON'S OFFICE AND DEMANDED TO SEE THE
MEDICAL PAPERS. THERE WAS NOTHING ON THE PAPERS TO
INDICATE THE DOG HAD HIP DYSPLASIA. AT THAT POINT THE
HUSBAND BECAME EXTREMELY UPSET AND TOLD DARCY
HOWEN, THE MANAGER OF PETLAND, THAT THOMPSON HAD
DESTROYED THE LIFE OF HIS DOG AND HE WANTED TO KNOW
WHY HE NEVER RECEIVED HIS AKC PAPERS. DARCY HOWEN
TOLD HIM HE WOULD MAIL THEM TO HIM AND TO GET OUT OF MY
STORE BEFORE I CALL THE POLICE. HE CALLED THE STORE 500
TIMES IN A PERIOD OF 4 MONTH BEFORE HE EVER GOT HIS
PAPERS. BY THAT TIME THEY HAD GIVEN THE DOG AWAY
BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT HANDLE HER ILLNESSES.

43. JANESVILLE, WI
JULY 2005
8 WEEK OLD MIN PIN $700.00
8 WEEK OLD BOXER FOR $1500.00
BADGERLAND VET SAID THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE
MIN PIN WHEN THEY NOTICED IT SHOOTING DISCHARGE OUT IT'S
MOUTH WHEN IT COUGHED, PUP HAD SEVERED DIARRHEA.
BADEGERLAND VET SAID IT WAS DIET RELATED. 19 DAY LATER
MIN PIN WAS TAKEN TO ANOTHER VET, DIAGNOSIS WAS: YEAST
INFECTION, AND THREE DIFFERENT STOMACH VIRUSES. THE
VET SAID THE DOG HAD BEEN BORN THAT WAY. DR. HEISE PUT
THE MIN PIN ON THREE DIFFERENT MEDICATIONS AND SAID IT
WAS TYPICAL "PETLAND SYNDROME". AS SOON AS ONE DOG
WAS CLEARED UP, THE OTHER DOG WOULD BECOME
INFECTED. IT TOOL 6 MONTHS BEFORE THE VIRUSES WERE
GONE. MIN PIN HAS A HEART MURMUR AND WAS TOLD BY
OWNER OF JANESVILLE STORE TO BUY THE DOG OR IT WILL BE
KILLED.

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