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An Illinois woman is suing Petco for selling a very sick cat. The woman, Courtney Anderson, got a cat from an Oak Lawn, IL Petco store when a clerk informed her that they were giving cats away because they had too many.
She took a female cat she named Lucy home with her. A few days later Lucy was shedding fur and having bloody diarrhea all over Anderson’s apartment. Anderson rushed her cat to the veterinary clinic where she found out that Lucy was actually a male that had been long suffering from leukemia, mites, and ringworm.
Lucy had to be put to sleep because of the extent of his illnesses.
The lawsuit seeks damages from Petco stemming from fraudulent sales and other infractions of Illinois’ tough Animal Welfare Laws. Anderson maintains that an employee at the store later confessed that a manager had brought in 60 of her own cats for adoption. The manager had apparently been told by police and animal officials to get rid of the cats from her home. Every one of the cats she brought to the store had a contagious form of leukemia.
Anderson’s lawsuit seeks to recoup costs of cleaning her apartment, supplies and food she bought for Lucy, veterinarian costs, and emotional and physical damage from wondering for 10 days if she had contracted rabies from the cat.
Petco said they are looking into the matter and are trying to find the remaining cats, some of who also had been given away to area customers.
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