Business ProfileforWellness Pet Company

Do not feed your dog Whimzees, the dental chews manufactured by WellPet. Our dog ate one of the hedgehog-shaped ones and was severely ill for four days before finally starting to feel better. She lost tremendous weight that we are still trying to put back on her. She endured multiple X-rays, IV fluids, multiple medications, syringe feeding and watering, among other things. Look up reviews online, and you will see that many, many dogs have suffered similar illness after ingesting these treats. We went to the company to complain and to see about reimbursement for the nearly $1,000 vet bills (for a $3 treat!), and their excuse is that because our dog got a portion of a treat that was intended for dogs in a weight category five pounds over her weight at the time, that that was what caused the issue. My vet's response when I told her their excuse? "There's no way. They're just trying to cover for themselves." A dog within five pounds should not have had to be admitted to the veterinary hospital for eating a portion (not all; our other dog ate some of it too) of a treat. The severity of her illness was nowhere near a normal response. And if that's the risk of feeding a dog THAT close to the weight limit a treat that is in the next weight category? Well they better plaster all kinds of warnings all over their labels that treats fed to a dog even a pound under the weight category may cause severe illness (or death? I don't know if our dog would have made it had we not brought her in). But they won't, because they know that wasn't the cause of her reaction. This company claims to care about animals, and they sure didn't care about mine. Every interaction I had with them felt saccharine-sweet and condescending. Please don't act like you're my friend (and that you care about my dog) when we both know you don't. You're all about the bottom line for yourselves, not doing the right thing for pets. I hope you can live with yourselves, because this blatant lying and refusal to take accountability for damage one of your products has caused to a pet has shown me that your company is pure scum. I will never buy anything manufactured by WellPet again, and I will tell everyone I know, including the dog rescues I'm part of, to also stay far away. And looking at the other reviews of your company on BBB, I can see that this sort of behavior from you is a pattern.