SEATTLE — Neela and Anthony Brocato were enjoying their first days with their newborn daughter, excited to bring their dog, Mitch, home from doggy daycare to meet his little sister, when they got an unexpected call.

"I got this call from the vet emergency center, and they said, 'You need to get down here right now, we don't think he has much time,'" Anthony Brocato said. He initially thought they had the wrong family. He rushed to Emerald City Emergency Clinic to be with Mitch.

"He was in rough shape," Brocato said. "They were working so hard on him."

According to court documents, an employee of Lazy Dog, Crazy Dog daycare in Ballard, had brought Mitch in early in the morning on Aug. 3. The employee, identified as Dejean Bowens in charging documents, reportedly confessed to a staff memb

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