STINKY'S KITTENS & DOGGIES TOO
About us
We offer promotions thru our email newsletter. In order to get speical offers/coupouns send your email address to [email protected] All of our sitters are bonded and insured under the company they have taken an extensive background check and training process.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Provide professional dog and cat grooming services. Also In Home Cat & Exotic Animal Sitting Serive. At our store location we offer natural food/treats, beds, bowls, collard, leads, litter and unique gifts for pets and their humans. Offer delivery service in the Somerville area for Pet supplies, minimum $15.00 for service.
Amenities
Emergency Services
Yes
Accepted Payment Methods
- CreditCard
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Shortly before we used their service for the last time, one of our cats developed diabetes. We contacted Jo-Ann, the owner, to see whether they had someone who could take our cat's blood sugar readings and administer insulin so we could keep using her service during our next vacation. Jo-Ann represented that she was qualified to take readings and give insulin injections. Several days before we left for our trip, she came to our house, and we showed her how to take the readings and how and when to give our cat the shots. On the second day of our trip, the terrible call came from her that our cat was close to death. She rushed him to the hospital and waited there until we told her that our cat would have to stay the night. The vet on call told us that our cat's blood sugar readings were extremely low, and that he appeared to be suffering from an insulin overdose. Chances of recovery were very low, and we had to have him put down.
We returned to Boston in grief but were grateful to Jo-Ann for her efforts to save him. Then, while going through the diabetes equipment to find the blood sugar readings she had taken while we were away--the equipment records every reading it makes--we found no readings on the equipment from the time of our vacation. As far as we could tell, Jo-Ann had not taken our cat's blood sugar readings before giving him insulin. Such negligence could easily have resulted in an insulin overdose like the one our cat suffered. We contacted Jo-Ann several times to clarify the absence of readings and to give us the readings she had allegedly taken. She responded that the readings were "both 120." She then stopped responding to our (repeated) requests for clarification. We are left with no choice but to believe that she caused our cat's death by injecting him without checking his blood sugar first, lied about it to us, and then refused to answer our questions or provide an explanation for what had happened.
We absolutely cannot recommend leaving your cat in her care.
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