MARIETTA, Ga. — Investigators with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raided a Cobb County veterinary clinic Friday morning.
Channel 2's Ross Cavitt was there as a DEA Diversion Team raided the Town and County Veterinary Clinic in Marietta.
"I was checking in at the time and about 15 DEA officers came into the building," a customer told Cavitt.
The show of federal force unnerved the pet owners who for years have trusted Town and Country to take care of their pets.
"This is a little out of the norm, this is not what we're used to," said Dr. Michael Good, owner of Town and County Veterinary Clinic.
Good has been a very visible vet in Cobb County. He also runs the Homeless Pet Foundation and has been an outspoken advocate against euthanasia of pets.
He said the agents told him they noticed a change in the amount of narcotics coming into the clinic.
"They noticed in our situation, because we're such a big operation, we were using significantly less narcotics, so they just noticed and they like to do it unannounced," Good said.
The feds, he said, told him they monitor the controlled substances that come in and out of veterinary clinics.
Two years ago Cavitt covered a vet that Good fired who police charged with distributing animal narcotics out of his east Cobb County home.
Good isn't sure if that is what attracted the attention to his clinic. But he believes when agents left, they left satisfied the drugs were going where they were supposed to.
"You know I had one client call and say, 'Is it OK if I leave my dog there tonight?' and I said everything's fine," Good said.