CHILTON COUNTY, Ala. ( WIAT ) — It’s a phone call no parent wants, that your beloved family pet has died while in the care of someone else. One Birmingham woman claims her puppy was starved to death while being boarded and trained at a facility in Chilton County.
“It’s heart wrenching to our family because we lost our family member,” Karen Black said. “It’s heart wrenching because our baby had to go through so much that she didn’t deserve. She did not deserve that.”
Emotions are raw as the Black family processes the unexpected death of their Chesapeake Bay Retriever puppy, Chloe. Black says on Sept. 28, Cupid Seymour came and picked up Chloe for a four-week basic obedience training course at his facility, Cupid’s Dog House, in Verbena. Three weeks later on Oct. 19, Black got a phone call Chloe had died.
Black had received video messages while Chloe was training. The last video she got before her death was on Oct. 17.
“It was as if it was her words, and I’m paraphrasing please, ‘hi mom, it’s me and I’m doing good and I start leash training with Mr. Cupid on Monday’ and she never made it to Monday,” Black said. “Monday was whenever her body was returned to the vet.”