Dog’s tail was severed at a Bushwick daycare. His owner thought refund wasn’t too much to ask.

A Ridgewood couple says they’re sad and outraged after learning that an incident at a Bushwick doggie day care wouldn’t just cost their dog 2 inches of his tail — but also that the business wouldn’t comp the canine’s stay.

Dayi Novas of Queens was on a 10-day road trip in the Utah desert with her partner last month when she got an alarming text: “I have a urgent message regarding Timber can you please give us a call.”

Thinking the worst, they drove in a panic until they found a spot with enough signal to call and find out just what had happened to their 5-year-old treeing walker coonhound, who’d been staying at the Pawsies boarding facility on Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn for the past few days. Novas learned from a worker that Timber had been injured. She said the employee told her that a trainer working that night was taking him to a play area at 1 a.m. when they closed a door too fast, clipping the end of Timber’s tail so badly that bone was exposed…

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