The dog groomer’s voice was thick with tears.
“The vet said that they performed CPR for about 20 minutes,” the groomer said. “But he was nonresponsive.”
Hours after Charlie arrived at the Healthy Spot pet store in West Los Angeles for a routine bath and trim, he was dead.
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The 4-year-old had been strangled by a noose used to restrain dogs during grooming. Twenty-six minutes near the end of the fluffy white dog’s life were captured on video that the California chain allegedly uses to make sure its employees work quickly enough.
Margolis is a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that the Culver City-based chain a self-described “natural pet store inspiring healthy pet lifestyles” has a “conveyor-belt style approach to dog grooming” that results in “serious injuries and deaths of innocent, vulnerable dogs, devastating their owners.”
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Riley Tully, the influencer behind popular Instagram account Meme Queen, allegedly tried to launch a shakedown against Healthy Spot groomers in Costa Mesa, California, according legal letters.