Friends Puppy Store

"Cute place to look and play with puppies, but one we played with today had blood in their stool. I pointed it out and was told it was "a cold". Blood in a dog's stool is not caused by a simple common cold, infact it can be a result of: cancer, parvo, infections, a dietary problem, etc. Just to name a few. Don't take every customer who walks through those doors for a fool, some of us may have dogs at home that we could bring these problems home to. This is the second time we've had an issue with a dog having blood in their stool, clearly better treatment is needed."

"Here’s the sad thing I’m gonna answer a couple of peoples question because I used to be the manager there in 2022 until November. That’s when I found out that they were giving the dogs too much safeguard. The dogs were pooping blood constantly we had a Yorky puppy die and the owner did nothing about it. Took it to the house and said she took it to the vet. She did not. The store was full of roaches in the kennel and outside the kennel. We had the mall come in and tell us that we needed to remedy the roach problem. The owner finally had the people that the mall wanted to come in and fix this to come in. not too long after I had left, I had clients that would come in every week and see me just come in and pet the puppies because I kept the front of the store, pristine and clean and it never smelled. I made sure that those kennels were clean. I made sure that the store was respectably clean when we opened. I always came in very early to make sure that everything was ready to go and set up for success for the girls and when they came in and when I left my former roommates took over the store and has taken my three star rating which I had it up to down to a 2.1 I have not had any complaints when I was there about the smell, the filth or anything like that I had people begging me to go back to the store and see if I could get my job back there because the puppies looked. He may see it under nourished and just sick. I have reached out to the owner on a number of vacation but to no avail , the manager and her daughter abruptly delete my emails to the owner every single time and I get snarky, rude disrespectful comments from them. I have two recordings of the managers daughter, stating and I quote that I stole from the owner that I was on TikTok, all the time that I treated the customers horribly that I brought in my air “service dog and yelled at the customers when they pet them I had signs up that asked not to pet him because he was in training and people were not listening. When people saw the signs they started listening and there was only one person that got in trouble because they went into the spot with my dog and started playing with him and getting him riled up so I asked them to leave the store and for Stephanie Evans and Carissa Evans the quote““ manager and assistant manager in training just know that I know you had not been giving those dogs bows. I know that Stephanie is on SSI and is working more than her a lot of time and putting her time on Carissa‘s time card and Lying to the state of Ohio about it that whole entire store. Nothing but teenagers is also full of nothing but liars and money hungry backstabbing individuals so I advise nobody to buy a dog from there because you might be very ill dog that is ending up bleeding throwing up blood it may have parva it may have distemper it may have heartworm it may have kennel cough and don’t take it to the vet that she has because it’s not a reparable vet like she says it is oh and she buys her dogs off of Petfinder has them shipped to her and then Jack’s the price up to over 4000 dollars to turn a profit, please buy from a breeder or adopt from the Humane Society. They do not microchip like they say they do. I’m not the type of person to everybody’s dirty laundry but I’m done playing nice when my name gets tracked through the mud and I find out the truth that I was lying to people because of an owner, and I had no clue. I don’t pride myself online I pride myself on being an honest individual. All of those that I sold the dog to I apologize for lying to you"

"I went in this puppy store today and sadly they had puppies that were four months old and older in these tiny little cage. They’ve been living in there for months. I’ve read several articles. It said they bought from puppy mills and I don’t know if that’s a fact or not, but they do buy from breeders. It’s terrible for puppies to have to live in cage like that for months until they find homes and I fear where they came from before they got them. And I worry what kind of shape the parents were in. Pet stores like this just need to be closed down. It made me sad today. And I would like to know what they do with these dogs if they don’t sell them. Months in those little kennels is just awful. I don’t care if they do take them out for a little while each day."

"I was a little apprehensive about purchasing a puppy from here given the reviews but we had a pleasant experience. We stumbled into the store one Friday and they were extremely busy. We played with this chihuahua puppy who was so sweet. I immediately fell in love but couldn’t afford her, even with financing, it wasn’t an option. My husband called on Tuesday, she was still there and they were willing to negotiate the price of her. We thoroughly read through all of her paperwork and the documents they gave us. We took her to our vet the next day. She did have cociddia and Giardia - which our vet said are extremely common, especially in puppy store dogs. They treated her and she was better within a week. The store refunded me for her treatment and testing with zero issues. I can’t speak on their practices of getting the dogs, or treatment behind closed doors, but while we were there, the girls were kind with us and helpful. And we’re happy with our puppy. Prices are a little steep - comparatively speaking. But we bonded with this puppy and it didn’t really matter to us personally."