Donna D’Errico Demands Justice For Rescue Dog Scout After Nearly Fatal Grooming Appointment

Actress Donna D’Errico is still seeking justice for her rescue dog, Scout.

After dropping him off for a routine grooming appointment, the "Baywatch" alum returned to find that her dog wasn't his usual chipper self after his appointment. It quickly turned into every pet owner's nightmare, with Scout receiving emergency surgery after doctors found that his anal glands had been ruptured internally.

The 54-year-old actress believes that the vet, Sam's Green Paw, is responsible for rupturing Scout's anal glands by squeezing him too hard during the grooming appointment. However, it seems that the grooming company won't cover Scout's emergency vet bills, as Donna is requesting. What makes this situation even more troubling is the fact that Donna doesn't seem to be the only one whose pet has suffered at the clinic.

On Monday, the “Frank and Penelope” actress shared an update on Instagram, including another photo of Scout clearly suffering and in pain.

“UPDATE: Scout is recovering and is going to make it thanks to the emergency vets who treated him after his horrific experience that nearly ended his life,” she wrote. “@samsgreenpaw has still never taken any responsibility or offered to cover any of Scout’s vet bills. They simply went silent and turned off the commenting on their IG page. #justiceforscout.”

“I took this pic of Scout in the waiting area at the emergency vet,” she continued. “He’d been perfectly fine until I brought him to @samsgreenpaw in Studio City to get groomed. After that things got very bad very fast. At first I thought maybe he’d been exposed to some kind of poison at Sam’s Greenpaw. But then the emergency vet who looked him over told me something that brought me to tears.”

In a previous post, she had described in graphic and extensive detail how his anal glands had apparently been squeezed hard enough to rupture, which caused an infection to spread throughout his entire body. Even though he had initially been placed on antibiotics, emergency surgery was required to save Scout’s life.

“@samsgreenpaw is refusing to take any responsibility for what was done to Scout and the suffering he went through that nearly killed him,” Donna alleged. In the post, she also included various other screenshots of negative reviews, where other dog owners claimed that their dogs got sick after they visiting the grooming service.

“Oh I just picked my dog up from boarding there and something is really wrong with her,” one customer alleged. “Won’t eat or drink – was at the vet yesterday. Called Sam’s to ask if she ate something she shouldn’t have and I got the same response that the boarding manager had left and would call me tomorrow. What’s going on there??”

“I picked up my dog on Monday and she’s had diarrhea ever since. The daycare manager left me a message but by the time I called back, he had ‘left for the day,’” another customer complained. “I had this same situation – picked up my dog and she has explosive diarrhea. Not only after but just before pick up,” another customer commented.

“Get a lawyer, they nearly killed your dog! They should be shut down due to poor groomers,” one user commented on Donna’s post. Donna replied, “Already talking to one.”

In another Instagram post shared over a week ago, Donna revealed that she had tried to resolve the situation amicably at first, until the manager at Sam’s Green Paw stopped responding to her allegations.

“I just heard from the owner of @samsgreenpaw asking me to remove my post about the traumatic experience Scout had,” she began. “At first he sounded compassionate His wording in the email made it sound like if I truly believed it was their fault then they would without question do right by Scout. But in the meantime he asked me to remove my post. I noticed that he did not offer to cover Scout’s vet bills. I responded and told him I would not remove my post until they did right by Scout. I also told him that I had sent Scout’s vet bills to his manager and tried to get them to do the right thing. I told him that I even had told his manager that I intended to post about Scout’s experience to warn others, and he didn’t seem to care.”

“Seeing that I wasn’t going to take my post down until @samsgreenpaw does right by Scout, all his emails after that had a totally different tone. He didn’t sound compassionate or caring anymore,” she continued. “In the first email he had said if I truly believed it was their fault then they would without question do right by Scout. That quickly changed into something more like that Scout had a preexisting condition so it would have happened anywhere (Scout did not have a preexisting condition). I’m also getting emails from him now saying he’s spoken to vets and that he plans to post things in his defense. I can’t wait to see what in the hell that could be. And the last email I just got from him was accusing me of this just being about the money. Honey please.”

“Oh and the owner of Sam’s Greenpaw tried to warn me about slander,” she added. “After I got done educating him on the difference between slander and libel, I basically said next. You have to state untrue s--- to have a case. I’m not stupid.”

“A true animal advocate wouldn’t be concerned with defending himself or talking to vets to get excuses or finding ways to get out of covering vet bills when a dog gets injured while in your care, or accusing someone of it just being about the money when they demand justice,” she concluded. “A true animal advocate and standup person would have done the right thing immediately.”

Donna is still seeking justice for Scout, and many fans hope that she gets it. The full story of what happened to Scout can be read below: