Owner of Missing Dog Begged Platinium Dogs Club Owner For Answers Only To Be Ignored

Am I the only one seeing it? Or have I gotten my spelling wrong?

Lest you have been hiding under the rock or have taken a trip to space on Elon Musk’s SpaceX starship in the past week, you should know by now the the horrifying case of Platinium Dogs Club (PDC), aka the so-called boarding house “with more than 20 year of experience in handling with [sic] dogs.”

They’ve in short, been alleged to have mistreated dogs under their care.

Alright, so back to my observation.

Can someone tell me what’s “Platinium?”

I mean, shouldn’t it be platinum?

Maybe its a portmanteau of platinum and titanium.

Be it the intent, they surely are not bullet-proof to the volley of social media fire that has been coming their way.

Slight Recap

In what has been a rallying call for PDC victims to take arms in Singapore, these said victims have been bringing their own stories to the social media front.

My colleague BH covered these cases here and here.

These individual reports have been each distinctly horrific, backed up by blow-by-by Facebook posts detailing their dealings with PDC, visceral images of dogs in mangled states, equally disturbing screen-grabs of the owners’ conversations with PDC’s alleged owner on WhatsApp.

PDC’s cruel treatments of dogs under their so-called care has even allegedly resulted in the death of one of these animals, QQ, a 14-year-old Jack Russell.

Lost Dog -Prince

When the AVA raided PDC last Saturday, Price, a Shetland sheepdog, was not found.

In her post here, Elaine Mao, Prince’s owner, shared her ordeal in tremendous detail, documenting her experience from the time Prince was boarded, up to moment when Prince was lost by the AVA, according to the alleged owner.

In it, she shared how she had cut short her overseas trip to return to SG, traced a path where Prince was allegedly seen by a passer-by and even created excel chits to organize search efforts for Prince.

Those are the actions of a breaking mum’s heart.

Fast forward to yesterday, news broke that the police had responded to “a case of a group of people who had gathered outside 7 Galistan Avenue, and was obstructing its driveway” according to Yahoo News.

In this Facebook video posted by Derrick Tan, founder and president of Voices for Animals,  Prince’s owner Elaine Mao can be seen pleading with the alleged owner amidst exasperation and tears.

At one point, she even kneels down on the ground in hopes of getting a response.

The confrontation at 7 Galistan Avenue, PDC’s address, ended at around 7 PM, with the woman being driven off in a black Jaguar.

She was seen waving to the press during her departure.

Seriously, how dare she?!

Man taken to Hospital

As if ill-treating, injuring, maiming, and God-forbid, killing dog(s) were not enough, the alleged owner’s driver-companion was reported to have reversed into a man during yesterday’s standoff.

“Preliminary investigations revealed that a 40-year-old man from the group had alleged that he was hit by the vehicle that was reversing out of the compound of the unit. The man was subsequently conveyed to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital in a conscious state,” the police shared, in a statement to Channel NewsAsia.

Even More Sinister Details

In what might even be more damning evidence that PDC has been ill-treating its wards, Yahoo News reported that Mobile Pet Cremation Services had apparently retrieved 3 dogs from PDC’s address at Galistan Avenue on 11, 24 and 25 December for cremation “in response to requests made by a woman who had phoned his company” according to a worker at the pet cremation company.

“The worker, who declined to be named, said the phone calls were made from a mobile phone number found on Platinium’s website, which has since been taken down.”

Furthermore, it “was unclear whether the three dogs belonged to Platinium or that they were cremated with the permission of their owners,” the article added.

Ultimately, I’m not one for vigilante-CSI efforts.

But it would appear that the evidence is insurmountably overwhelming against PDC.

According to the Animals and Birds Act, those who fail in their duty of care towards animals in the course of conducting an animal-business is,  liable for a fine not exceeding $40,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both for a first-time offence.

I suppose “Platinium” might be a good moniker for use behind the gallows.