“One of the owners received a call from the owner at the airport, which was a very difficult conversation. They are intensely sad,” Roodveldt said. The other owner from Amstelveen, of two of the dogs, placed a call on social media to get in touch with affected owners.
In the luxury dog hotel, the animals stay in apartments. The owner could not say on Saturday what went wrong, says Roodveldt: “And that’s exactly it, we don’t know anything at the moment, we are groping in the dark.”
Hermetically sealed apartment
A spokesperson for the dog hotel arrives late NU.nl know that ‘what happened is terrible’, and that they are also investigating the apartment where the deceased animals were: “The apartment in question is hermetically sealed. There are no more dogs there at the moment.”
The boarding house cannot yet say anything about possible compensation for the owners: “We will try to clarify in the coming days what we can and should do.”
No criminal case yet
The lawyer emphasizes that she is not yet working on a possible criminal case against the guesthouse: “It is still far too early for that. We have to wait and see what happens, and if an error is identified, you can possibly look into next steps.”
Roodveldt thinks it is important that the owner of the dog hotel is not simply pilloried: “The owner is also completely devastated, of course, you don’t start such a hotel if you don’t like dogs. There are only losers in this story. “
