Posted on 08/26/2009 9:53:46 AM PDT by JoeProBono
RICHMOND, Va. — An executive for an anti-animal cruelty group says her 16-year-old blind and deaf dog died after she accidentally left him in her hot car for four hours.
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Can’t make up a story like this. Eeeesh.
I just read this in a VA paper, and the way I read it, it is possible she didn’t know the dog was in the car, because her husband put it into her car.
Rather confusing if you ask me.
ACCIDENTALLY? And Michael Vick was accidentally fighting dogs!
I always think that’s got to be an awful way to die.
I accidentally looked her up. Her hubby’s an attorney in Richmond and is an active Democrat donor.
No surprise.
I wonder if Robin Starr would be forgiving of others who made this same mistake?
How long was the dog in the car before she got into it? This story doesn't smell right. Furthermore, the SPCA would be screaming for our heads on a platter if we did the same.
What an IDIOT!
She lectures everyone else but she is too stupid to take care of her own dog~! Typical!
It makes me sick. How do you ‘FORGET’ about a child or an animal in a hot car?!
I’m not trying to give her a pass, I just commented that the article I read was rather confusing.
I doubt they would cut too much slack for joe schmoe either.
I would love to see a big billboard with her image and the fried dog along a major highway. That poor animal was blind and deaf. Good grief, what would she do with a helpless child?
Abort it.
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Sounds like the stupid husband is to blame.
This is the article I read:
A 16-year-old deaf and blind dog belonging to the CEO of the Richmond SPCA died after being left alone in a hot car for four hours.
Robin Starr and her husband, Ed, discussed the dog’s death in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Ed Starr said he put the dog, named Louie, in his wife’s car as she prepared for work last Wednesday.
Robin Starr did not realize the dog was in the car until noon. She took the dog to two clinics, but it died of kidney failure.
The National Weather Service says the temperature had reached 91 degrees by noon that day.
The board of the SPCA says it still supports Starr, who does not plan to resign.
IMO there was a serious lack of communication here, and least they should do is a series of public service announcement with regard to leaving children and pets in hot cars.
I have one outside cat that loves to sneak into my car. She has done it to me so many times, she hides well, that I will not pull out of the drive without knowing exactly where she is.
Yeah, I have that problem all the time, invisible dogs, when they sit very quietly they can be in your car and you’ll not even see them.....but maybe the driver was blind and deaf not the dog.
Anyway, moving on, the SPCA forgets and forgives.
No excuses. Book ‘er, Danno...
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