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Family says animal hospital worker took pug home after they paid for euthanasia

The family says the pug, Cha Cha, was kept for months after they paid hundreds of dollars, and that hospital managers denied the claim; the hospital has not been named here.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA Georgia family says they paid hundreds of dollars for an animal hospital to euthanize their four-year-old pug, Cha Cha, and she was not euthanized in March as they believed.

  2. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe family says a hospital worker took the dog home and kept her for months. WSB-TV has the story.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe owner says a former worker told her there was a picture of the worker and the pug on social media.

  4. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistAnd the family's seventeen-year-old son and the pug wore matching hoodies, the owner says.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMatching hoodies. That's a dog with a wardrobe and a posting schedule.

  6. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe family says managers denied it when they raised it.

  7. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistBut they say the worker's husband confirmed his wife had the pug and that the dog was in good health.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe husband was the honest one?

  9. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistApparently. WSB-TV also reports another employee at the same hospital was accused earlier this year of keeping a family's cat instead of euthanizing it.

  10. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe family says the hospital eventually put the pug down.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the hospital has a pet adoption program, it just forgot to tell the owners.

  12. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistForecast for that hospital's reviews: heavy, with a chance of one star.

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