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.
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Absolutely
Yes...later...she was told to give the dog to Animal Control numerous times.
I don’t know why she was fired, tho.
Seems like something is missing from this story.
Ridiculous!
How many times? That storm was two weeks ago, right? And it seems like the owner got it back quickly.
Animal control got pissed because they wanted to collect the fines and inflated cost of care.
I think something is missing, too.
(There’s a significant problem with burnout and depression among veterinary technicians; I wonder if something like that was involved. Sometimes when people are overwhelmed they don’t deal with issues in the most sensible way.)
RULES! You must adhere to the rules set out by our betters, peasant
NC has slid a long way down the slippery slope of totalitarianism...
The rot introduced by all those northerners moving there over the past several decades has taken its toll...
Typical - like the cities that make it illegal for people to collect stray soda cans from the trash, or from the side of the roads. The cities want the "revenue" from the cans even though they lose money overall from the recycling efforts.
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