Influencer Madeleine White Details the Death of Her Dog

As far as you know, you dropped the dog off at this training facility. What happens? So we had wanted just basically training. We had, they just pulled on the leash. They were great men or dogs and everything. And we felt like it was a good time to do it because we're going out of town and everything we had heard was like a boarding training situation usually is more effective long term than just doing, you know, once a week or whatever. So we decided to do it. We landed on the trainer that we went with and they effective Yelp reviews. It seemed sentiment was that he got the job done. He was a quote unquote celebrity trainer. He named drop many celebrities dogs that he claimed to have trained to us on our consultation. He was extremely pushy with us and asked us because he tried to sell us a more expensive package. And he said, you know, Zendaya trusted me with her dog. Why wouldn't you? Anthony Anderson trust me with his dog. You need this package, which was a month long, two days into that month package. We dropped them off and we got to call that Duncan, one of the friendliest dogs on the planet. Again, the intention of this was just basic leash training. This is not a hostile breed. Got the news that he had passed away when we asked him what happened. He said to himself, like, well, he said that he said that the dog had been out training in the middle of the heat wave. He said that he took the dog out early and we said, how early? Because in our mind, early is like five or six a.m. We don't walk the dogs during the day at all in the summertime. We walk them at nine p.m. at night for this reason. And he said nine or 10, they started training. He claims this was all under under one of his employees, that he was being trained, showed signs of heat exhaustion and that was starting to pant, act lethargic, all of the typical symptoms. And then for some reason unbeknownst to us, he then decided that he was going to transfer the dogs to a different, completely different boarding facility on a completely different area of Los Angeles without telling us, without telling us because he said that they had a better air conditioned facility for them and that he had had an overflow of dogs, which he never even told us he had one other dog to train. Well, we'd left them there. He claimed he had an overflow of dogs and he was going to move them. And then supposedly by the time he arrived at that secondary location, Duncan was was dead in the backseat, at which point they dropped off our other dog, apparently, and then failed to notify us for another four hours. I never took him to the vet. They didn't take him to the vet until I spoke to them and said, you haven't taken him to the vet yet. Yeah, you didn't take him to the vet until we demanded 20 years of dog training experience on your website, dog trainer to the celebrities, all of this stuff. And you can't even execute basic lifesaving measures on a dog. So when you got that tragic news, obviously you're upset you're talking to him about what happened to Duncan. What was your response then? Because I'm sure you were panicked that your other dog, Poutine, is still in in his custody. What was your reaction? How did you deal with that? The first thing we did was call friends and find the first person that we could go and go and collect her. She was no she wasn't even at his facility. She was at a boarding facility that's completely unrelated for some reason. So that's where we immediately sent a friend to go and pick her up. She was extremely distressed when our friend got there and she said she was showing all the same signs of heat exhaustion that you would expect, you know, panting, very lethargic. Apparently she didn't drink water for up to three, four hours after she got to our friend's house. Our conclusion is the only reason she survived is because she's about 30 pounds lighter than Duncan because Duncan's male. And we think she would have passed away as well and we would have lost two dogs. Yeah.