Posted on 02/05/2026 11:24:50 AM PST by nickcarraway
A North Carolina veterinary technician has been charged and fired from her job after she rescued a dog that was abandoned in the cold winter weather — but failed to hand the pooch over to animal control.
Dason Garner has been left “completely broken” as she faces charges for keeping a stray animal, failure to surrender and interfering with law enforcement over her deed, according to WRAL.
Garner says she was punished for her act of compassion in rescuing the pooch from the brutal conditions after a harsh snowstorm barreled across Wilson, NC, over the weekend.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
She is a hero. She knew since it was hurt by the exposure that they would likely kill it. So-called “shelters” kill around 1.5 million animals per year.
The dog was abandoned on the front porch by a woman named Ashley Baker.
Ashley Baker was not the owner of the dog. The owner is an unnamed woman who Dason Garner found and returned the dog to.
It does not say how Ashley Baker came into possession of the dog, whether she kidnapped it, found it, etc.
Ashley Baker was charged with abandonment.
The owner who now has the dog didn't abandon it.
No. They didn't.
You need to read the story again.
You’re all right and I’m wrong. NOW I remember that part of the article. The phrasing confused me a bit at the time and that must be why I spaced it. Thank you all.
It is a little confusing, especially since they never explain how Ashley Baker got the dog. The reporter may not have known.
What states require handing over a caught stray dog?
I wonder if Baker took the dog in herself but decided it was too much trouble...or if the dog was hanging around her house and she wanted it gone.
A lot of ‘reporting’ is like this, these days; disjointed and missing details. (It’s one thing to try and find out something but fail; another to not try and flesh out the story at all.)
Democrat run cities are cesspools.
YES, cops feel safer arresting a kind hearted woman than hardened criminals.
it seems most would have gladly allowed a vet tech to foster one...
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I suspect that might result in some vet techs collecting and hoarding dogs and/or cats.
Or selling them or passing on to friends, without county fees or shots or registration.
amazed me when support of laws and government idiocy soar depending on which party is in power and it happens on both sides-
A lot of animals are chipped now.
And a lot are stolen, or escape. Any ‘stray’ people may find should be taken someplace where it can be scanned.
THANK YOU NICK!
THANK YOU NICK!
I used to trust the legacy news organizations, and internet news all the time. With so much money to be made by clicks I am most suspicious of any story that is basically a small story which tries to reach people’s heart strings.
Sorry about the cynicism but Jussie Smollet story was a bellwether.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!
Nice try...she didn’t get fired because she saved the dog. She was repeatedly told to surrender the pup.
“with police saying she was told multiple times to forfeit the dog to animal control, the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office told WRAL.”
So there’s that...
I don’t think all news organizations are untrustworthy, but I agree that a lot are, and it’s increasing.
(Also, I often find myself wondering what a big story may be distracting us from.)
I never in my life heard of a law against taking in a stray dog. That is nuts but NC as I’ve posted before is a strange place. Don’t move there.
She gave the dog back to its rightful owner.
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