ATTENTION ALL DOG LOVERS!!! I’m asking for your help! I made the mistake & trusted @wagmorpets w/ 2 three month old pure bred Toy Poodles that I was trying to help find a good home for. There were a total of 5 puppies. I’ve never been in this position & thought best to reach out to a rescue for help. When I contacted @wagmorpets Melissa Bacelar answered the phone. Once she learn they were pure bred she wanted them ASAP! She sent me to a vet to get them vaccinated and told me to leave them there. She started adopting them out w/o meeting them, w/o them being spayed or neutered, w/o meeting me, w/o any information on where they came from. In the interim I found a foster parent to take them all as two were bonded and I didn’t want to separate them. Melissa was texting me frantically. I told her I already found a foster parent. She said “You have to leave them at the vet! I already found them a home! The people already PAID for them. Am I suppose to give them their money back? You need to leave them there!” I felt super pressured by her so I left two and then I found out who she really is! I need help getting these pups back! Repost from @latimes • Melissa Bacelar moved to Los Angeles about 20 years ago to act in horror films such as “Skinned Alive,” “Pink Eye” and “Zombie Ed.” She didn’t intend to save dogs. But, she took a dog that was chained outside an apartment building in her neighborhood to a local rescue and was inspired to foster. After working as a pet psychic and trying and failing to open a gelato store, she pivoted to selling organic pet food and keeping a few rescues in a small shop on Ventura Boulevard. Soon, celebrity customers got dogs from Wagmor Pets, Bacelar’s rescue group, helping boost its adoption numbers. Wagmor has faced several lawsuits that claimed, among other things, that Wagmore was buying dogs on the cheap from breeders, then misrepresenting them as rescues and charging high adoption fees. Bacelar denies the charges and most of the lawsuits have been settled. But former employees interviewed by The Times echoed the claims. And other rescue groups have cried foul. Read more about Wagmor at the link in bio. 📷 @bvanderbrug
ATTENTION ALL DOG LOVERS!!! I’m asking for your help! I made the mistake & trusted @wagmorpets w/ 2 three month old pure bred Toy Poodles that I was trying to help find a good home for. There were a total of 5 puppies. I’ve never been in this position & thought best to reach out to a rescue for help. When I contacted @wagmorpets Melissa Bacelar answered the phone. Once she learn they were pure bred she wanted them ASAP! She sent me to a vet to get them vaccinated and told me to leave them there. She started adopting them out w/o meeting them, w/o them being spayed or neutered, w/o meeting me, w/o any information on where they came from. In the interim I found a foster parent to take them all as two were bonded and I didn’t want to separate them. Melissa was texting me frantically. I told her I already found a foster parent. She said “You have to leave them at the vet! I already found them a home! The people already PAID for them. Am I suppose to give them their money back? You need to leave them there!” I felt super pressured by her so I left two and then I found out who she really is! I need help getting these pups back! Repost from @latimes • Melissa Bacelar moved to Los Angeles about 20 years ago to act in horror films such as “Skinned Alive,” “Pink Eye” and “Zombie Ed.” She didn’t intend to save dogs. But, she took a dog that was chained outside an apartment building in her neighborhood to a local rescue and was inspired to foster. After working as a pet psychic and trying and failing to open a gelato store, she pivoted to selling organic pet food and keeping a few rescues in a small shop on Ventura Boulevard. Soon, celebrity customers got dogs from Wagmor Pets, Bacelar’s rescue group, helping boost its adoption numbers. Wagmor has faced several lawsuits that claimed, among other things, that Wagmore was buying dogs on the cheap from breeders, then misrepresenting them as rescues and charging high adoption fees. Bacelar denies the charges and most of the lawsuits have been settled. But former employees interviewed by The Times echoed the claims. And other rescue groups have cried foul. Read more about Wagmor at the link in bio. 📷 @bvanderbrug
ATTENTION ALL DOG LOVERS!!! I’m asking for your help! I made the mistake & trusted @wagmorpets w/ 2 three month old pure bred Toy Poodles that I was trying to help find a good home for. There were a total of 5 puppies. I’ve never been in this position & thought best to reach out to a rescue for help. When I contacted @wagmorpets Melissa Bacelar answered the phone. Once she learn they were pure bred she wanted them ASAP! She sent me to a vet to get them vaccinated and told me to leave them there. She started adopting them out w/o meeting them, w/o them being spayed or neutered, w/o meeting me, w/o any information on where they came from. In the interim I found a foster parent to take them all as two were bonded and I didn’t want to separate them. Melissa was texting me frantically. I told her I already found a foster parent. She said “You have to leave them at the vet! I already found them a home! The people already PAID for them. Am I suppose to give them their money back? You need to leave them there!” I felt super pressured by her so I left two and then I found out who she really is! I need help getting these pups back! Repost from @latimes • Melissa Bacelar moved to Los Angeles about 20 years ago to act in horror films such as “Skinned Alive,” “Pink Eye” and “Zombie Ed.” She didn’t intend to save dogs. But, she took a dog that was chained outside an apartment building in her neighborhood to a local rescue and was inspired to foster. After working as a pet psychic and trying and failing to open a gelato store, she pivoted to selling organic pet food and keeping a few rescues in a small shop on Ventura Boulevard. Soon, celebrity customers got dogs from Wagmor Pets, Bacelar’s rescue group, helping boost its adoption numbers. Wagmor has faced several lawsuits that claimed, among other things, that Wagmore was buying dogs on the cheap from breeders, then misrepresenting them as rescues and charging high adoption fees. Bacelar denies the charges and most of the lawsuits have been settled. But former employees interviewed by The Times echoed the claims. And other rescue groups have cried foul. Read more about Wagmor at the link in bio. 📷 @bvanderbrug
ATTENTION ALL DOG LOVERS!!! I’m asking for your help! I made the mistake & trusted @wagmorpets w/ 2 three month old pure bred Toy Poodles that I was trying to help find a good home for. There were a total of 5 puppies. I’ve never been in this position & thought best to reach out to a rescue for help. When I contacted @wagmorpets Melissa Bacelar answered the phone. Once she learn they were pure bred she wanted them ASAP! She sent me to a vet to get them vaccinated and told me to leave them there. She started adopting them out w/o meeting them, w/o them being spayed or neutered, w/o meeting me, w/o any information on where they came from. In the interim I found a foster parent to take them all as two were bonded and I didn’t want to separate them. Melissa was texting me frantically. I told her I already found a foster parent. She said “You have to leave them at the vet! I already found them a home! The people already PAID for them. Am I suppose to give them their money back? You need to leave them there!” I felt super pressured by her so I left two and then I found out who she really is! I need help getting these pups back! Repost from @latimes • Melissa Bacelar moved to Los Angeles about 20 years ago to act in horror films such as “Skinned Alive,” “Pink Eye” and “Zombie Ed.” She didn’t intend to save dogs. But, she took a dog that was chained outside an apartment building in her neighborhood to a local rescue and was inspired to foster. After working as a pet psychic and trying and failing to open a gelato store, she pivoted to selling organic pet food and keeping a few rescues in a small shop on Ventura Boulevard. Soon, celebrity customers got dogs from Wagmor Pets, Bacelar’s rescue group, helping boost its adoption numbers. Wagmor has faced several lawsuits that claimed, among other things, that Wagmore was buying dogs on the cheap from breeders, then misrepresenting them as rescues and charging high adoption fees. Bacelar denies the charges and most of the lawsuits have been settled. But former employees interviewed by The Times echoed the claims. And other rescue groups have cried foul. Read more about Wagmor at the link in bio. 📷 @bvanderbrug
ATTENTION ALL DOG LOVERS!!! I’m asking for your help! I made the mistake & trusted @wagmorpets w/ 2 three month old pure bred Toy Poodles that I was trying to help find a good home for. There were a total of 5 puppies. I’ve never been in this position & thought best to reach out to a rescue for help. When I contacted @wagmorpets Melissa Bacelar answered the phone. Once she learn they were pure bred she wanted them ASAP! She sent me to a vet to get them vaccinated and told me to leave them there. She started adopting them out w/o meeting them, w/o them being spayed or neutered, w/o meeting me, w/o any information on where they came from. In the interim I found a foster parent to take them all as two were bonded and I didn’t want to separate them. Melissa was texting me frantically. I told her I already found a foster parent. She said “You have to leave them at the vet! I already found them a home! The people already PAID for them. Am I suppose to give them their money back? You need to leave them there!” I felt super pressured by her so I left two and then I found out who she really is! I need help getting these pups back! Repost from @latimes • Melissa Bacelar moved to Los Angeles about 20 years ago to act in horror films such as “Skinned Alive,” “Pink Eye” and “Zombie Ed.” She didn’t intend to save dogs. But, she took a dog that was chained outside an apartment building in her neighborhood to a local rescue and was inspired to foster. After working as a pet psychic and trying and failing to open a gelato store, she pivoted to selling organic pet food and keeping a few rescues in a small shop on Ventura Boulevard. Soon, celebrity customers got dogs from Wagmor Pets, Bacelar’s rescue group, helping boost its adoption numbers. Wagmor has faced several lawsuits that claimed, among other things, that Wagmore was buying dogs on the cheap from breeders, then misrepresenting them as rescues and charging high adoption fees. Bacelar denies the charges and most of the lawsuits have been settled. But former employees interviewed by The Times echoed the claims. And other rescue groups have cried foul. Read more about Wagmor at the link in bio. 📷 @bvanderbrug
