Posted on 05/05/2016 1:39:17 PM PDT by aomagrat
MOUNT PLEASANT, SC (WCSC) -
A Live 5 News investigation has revealed there are no laws in South Carolina regulating doggy daycare businesses, a finding that comes after a Mount Pleasant woman's pet dog died at a Mount Pleasant doggy daycare.
Judith Von says she regularly boarded her two year old dog Zane at Paws in Paradise on Johnnie Dodds Boulevard.
She says there were no problems until August 5, 2015.
She says she dropped off Zane at 9 a.m. Von says she returned at 5 p.m. to pick him up and says she was met by the owner.
"She started this thing about, 'Well, this has never happened before' and I said, 'Where is Zane?' And she was kind of going on and I kept saying, 'Where's Zane?' and I was losing it at this point. I was starting to yell and scream, 'Where's my dog?'" Von says.
What happened to Zane was captured on the daycare's web camera video, a copy of which was supplied by Mount Pleasant Police.
At a time stamp of 1 p.m., the video shows Zane and some other dogs were let out to play in a yard. The footage shows Zane checking out an empty metal dog pool propped up against a fence. While an employee cleans up, Zane finds an opening and goes inside the pool. Suddenly, the video shows the pool falling on Zane, covering him up entirely.
It appears from the video no one saw it happen.
Five hours later, the video shows an employee pulling up the pool and finding Zane. The video then shows another employee run out, see what happened, then walk away with her hands in the air. Another employee in the footage puts his hands behind his head.
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As it should be.
“And she’s got the sad look down pat.”
The good thing is that when you get home, it is “the best day EVAH!!!!!” for the dog, as if nothing ever happened before. I imagine that it must be a lot less stressful to be as dumb as a rock (even though we love them).
Here’s an interesting article: http://futurism.com/sorry-dog-lovers-your-dog-is-probably-not-as-smart-as-you-think/ Take a look at the dog diary vs. the cat diary - and have no liquids in your mouth, lest you have the funds for a new keyboard. :>)
I don’t trust mine to be there. She plays like she’s as dumb as a rock when we’re around, but I suspect that she’s a master escape artist. Plus, she’d probably get run over by a car...and I couldn’t deal well with that.
Securing against accidents by anticipating activity-—removing hazards is reasonable. Monitoring those placed in your charge is reasonable. A head count periodically would make sense, as some are adept escape artists. Illness could occur, should be watched for in a group setting, and would require evaluation more often than a 6 hour interval. If this were a human child daycare, no one would say accidents happen.
Leaving a child to play alone in a sun baked yard with containers that could result in entrapment is a close analogy to this incident. For whatever reason, no one noticing someone was missing for 6 hours is a problem, and it isn’t simply an accident.
Had a friend that had a doggie dog until she came home one day and the gate was opened and she had 3 dogs had a ball in her house...she said her bitch had a party and they were all sleeping on the sofa.
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