A woman is pleading to get her puppy back after she was forced to surrender him due to a medical bill.
Highlights
- Rachel Mullen said her puppy, Jaxx, needed emergency surgery to save his life.
- The bill came to $10,000, an amount that she couldn’t afford.
- The clinic told her she had to pay or surrender him.
- A spokesperson from the clinic’s corporate owner, Rarebreed Veterinary Partners, said when a person surrenders a pet, it’s a legally binding contract.
- She has filed a police report and is bringing her concerns to the state’s board of veterinary medicine, which says it’s not interested in the case.
- The case is unusual, a spokesperson for the animal rescue league says.