Posted on 01/04/2015 9:22:33 PM PST by Don W
A rescued yellow Labrador retriever mix was popularly named Reagan by Rick Scott Facebook fans as the now Florida governor campaigned in the 2010 close election against Democrat Alex Sink. Unfortunately, Reagan's photos disappeared shortly after Scott was sworn in on January 2011, reports the Tampa Bay Times.
So what happened to Reagan the rescue pooch? Introduced as the newest addition to the Scott family back then, all sorts of dog friendly and Rick Scott photos were plastered everywhere. Of course, animal advocates love that kind of compassion; statistics reveal that 39% of Americans have at least one dog in their homes.
Scott was even praised for rescuing a dog; not like the Democrat President Obama who purchased two Portuguese water dogs from a breeder.
But when a Tampa Bay Times investigator wanted information on Reagan the Labrador who was ceremoniously named after President Ronald Reagan, officials at the Tallahassee mansion weren't barking. Although the Governor's latest communication director, Melissa Sellers stated she was much too busy with government work to comment on Reagan, the investigation pushed forward.
On Monday, the answer trickled out with Governor Scott stating:
"He was a rescue dog, and he couldn't be around anybody that was carrying anything, and so he wouldn't get better."
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Reagan never bit anyone, but was alleged to have scared people because he "barked like crazy."
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Looks like they told a different tale 2 years ago. From the Daily Mail, January 21, 2013 =>
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But it was revealed today that the governor was forced to send the dog back after he bit a mansion grounds employee on January 7, 2011, three days after he took office.
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So which is it, I wonder.
Gotta love it when the libs get their panties in wad.
Are you comparing a baby to a dog? Rescuing baby means the baby is returned to his or her guardian/parents. Rescuing a dog is like taking home a used car... there are some procedures you have to follow, but you can (try to) return it or sell/give it away. Dogs have no rights except to not be tortured. They do not have the right to live, but if they must die, they should not needlessly suffer.
Isn’t “rescue” just a new word for adopting a dog, or as the older way of saying it was, went to the pound to find a dog, or I got him at the pound?
I’d like to know exactly where this dog is now.
“Spokesperson says Scott was forced to send him back after he bit an employee”
“Have since adopted a seven-year-old lab called Tallee”
“The family decided that the best decision for the dog and all those who visit (the Governor’s Mansion) would be to have the grooming business find Reagan a more appropriate home with less people and activity,’ Sellers said. ‘It was a hard choice that sometimes pet owners have to make.’
Last Monday, reporters confronted Scott about the case of the vanishing dog. The governor said that Reagan ‘scared the living daylights’ out of everyone living at his Tallahassee mansion and that it wasn’t working out.
The dog, he said, would not stop barking if he saw a person carrying something.
Scott said that because of Reagan’s temperament, he had no choice but to return him to his previous owner.”
The January 2013 article gives both reasons, this June 2014 article only gives the lesser reason. Couldn’t be that the second author was less interested in the whole story so close to Election Day, could it?
Yellow labs are more aloof than black labs. I saw far more biter warnings in the yellow labs’ (especially the male ones) files than in the black labs’ files.
Good catch, Ken!
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...it was revealed today that the governor was forced to send the dog back after he bit a mansion grounds employee on January 7, 2011, three days after he took office.
Scott spokeswoman Melissa Sellers said: ‘The governor and first lady love dogs and they had to make a hard decision when it was clear that Reagan was very anxious around lots of different people.’
Ms Sellers said Gov Scott flew Reagan back to Naples on his private jet to the place they adopted him from.
‘The family decided that the best decision for the dog and all those who visit (the Governor’s Mansion) would be to have the grooming business find Reagan a more appropriate home with less people and activity,’ Sellers said. ‘It was a hard choice that sometimes pet owners have to make.
The Scotts have since adopted Tallee, a calmer, gentler seven-year-old yellow Lab.
Mansion grounds employee Jennifer Kinsey was arranging flowers in the mansion when Reagan bit her on the right hand, according to an incident report made by her supervisor for the Department of Management Services.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266151/Governor-Rick-Scott-sent-adopted-dog-Regan-days-took-office-bit-mansion-employee.html#ixzz3Nvkos0BS
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Leaving out that the dog bit someone-if that is true-is journalistic malpractice.
:-P
“Reagan never bit anyone, but was alleged to have scared people because he “barked like crazy.”
Ah ha ha ha!
I reckon I better send Seven back, then.
She barks *and* bites.
Well, barking is incurable, ya know.
/s
A definite WTF Post, that.
Well at least Scott didn’t have him for dinner....
It sure is. The Examiner isn’t journalism in my view. It’s more tabloid style than anything. Too many writer wannabes who let their biases get the best of them. Always best to fact check their stuff.
the person i was replying to brought up the baby issue. maybe you read what i was responding to before shooting your mouth off.
Yep. A lot of ‘rescues’ even import dogs from other regions to keep themselves in business.
I’ve also noted a tendency for people who work at rescues or are adoptive customers of rescues to build speculative fantasies around various animals with unknown histories, often proclaiming that the animals “must” have been or were abused until they “saved” it. They are either doing this to get attention and status for themselves or doing it because it makes an animal more adoptable if everyone feels sorry for it.
While there is certainly no shortage of real abuse cases, this tendency of caretakers to just imagine what horrors the animal went through and assert they are fact is very off-putting. Trying to explain every quirky or abnormal behavior as always originating in abuse by a human when it can have many other possible innocent causes or even nonhuman related causes is dishonest. They just can’t admit that they don’t know.
You can see a similar behavior among people studying their genealogy- sometimes you see them desperately clinging to fake histories or see them find an ancestor of persecuted minority descent and spontaneously they become “victims,” too.
The fact Gov. Scott had rescued this dog should be commended, not condemned. Rescue agencies always specify the animal should be returned to them if the adoption or fostering (the article doesn’t address which in this case) does not go well. Sometimes that is indeed the case, and the dog returns to the rescue agency. It sounds to me the dog did not adjust well to its new life; if that is indeed the case, Gov. Scott did the right thing by returning him.
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