Woman With Eye Patch Takes Ailing Dog To Groomer And Never Returns To Pick Him Up

Nov 05, 2019 by apost team

A cruel-hearted villain sporting a black eyepatch sounds like something out of an old children's fable. However, in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, this stereotypical caricature of an old-fashioned villain is an all-too-real woman who did something horrible to her dog.

The Secret Garden Pet Resort is a lovely local dog grooming shop, filled with staff members who adore the pooches they groom. One sunny afternoon, a woman in her mid-40s wearing a black eyepatch entered the shop and dropped off a sweet English Bulldog.

She told the employee behind the desk that the dog's name was William Katz. While it seemed like a slightly odd name for a dog, the employee took down her information and told the woman when she could come back to pick up William.

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When the time came for William's owner to pick him up, the woman in the eyepatch was nowhere to be found. The staff was initially concerned that maybe something had happened to the mysterious lady with the oddly named dog.

When they attempted to call the number she'd given them, it was out of service. Hours turned into days and it became clear that the woman wasn't coming back.

Fearing the worst, the staff at Secret Garden contacted the local authorities in East Bridgewater reports CBS. As law enforcement began to investigate, they discovered that the name the woman had given the groomer, Melanie Wichester, was completely bogus. There was no woman by that name in their area.

While everyone initially wanted to believe that perhaps something horrible had happened to "Melanie" that kept her from retrieving William, it quickly became apparent that this heartless woman knew exactly what she was doing. When she went to drop off William, she knew that she would never come back for him.

The East Bridgewater community is outraged by this incident. "This is absolutely heartbreaking 😔 pray for William’s healing and a fur-ever home" one resident commented on social media.

The authorities released surveillance footage from Secret Garden to the local media in the hopes that someone will identify this woman and come forward with her real name.

Be sure to show this story to as many people as possible so that law enforcement can locate her. While this is a terrible story, there is a silver lining. For now, William Katz is in good hands with the Secret Garden staff and seems well-adjusted despite the chaos surrounding him.