[Source: Disability Scoop]

Briggs Geister decided to buy a service dog from Noelle’s Dogs Four Hope based on the company’s glowing online reviews and its reasonable prices.

Her husband has difficulty walking and uses oxygen due to a terminal lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis and post-polio syndrome. She hoped a service dog would give him companionship and much-needed physical support.

So Geister gave Noelle’s $9,000 for Lilo, a 16-month-old goldendoodle, and paid to have a trainer come to her home in Longmont to teach her to work with the dog. But a few days later, when a nurse came to the door, Lilo barked incessantly and urinated on the floor. Soon after, when Geister took her husband to a doctor’s appointment, the dog growled at doctors.

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