Posted on 09/24/2005 11:02:05 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
A chance meeting at an Independence animal shelter has left a relocated Hurricane Katrina victim without his longtime pet.
John Wyrick, who moved to the area from Mississippi following the hurricane, had taken his German Shepherd to the shelter approximately two weeks ago after learning he would not be able to keep it at a temporary residence.
He released his pet of 14 years to a stranger while searching for a place to live. After finding a home, he has learned he can't have his dog back.
Wyrick met with an unidentified woman visiting the shelter, said Amy Wells, shelter manager.
"He wanted the animal shelter to take the dog. They started talking," Wells said. "He decided he wanted to give the dog to her. I told them you cannot do the transfer on our property."
After that point the story becomes unclear. What is known is Independence resident Lynn Nevills eventually ended up with the dog. Wyrick could not be reached Friday.
City of Independence spokesperson Irene Baltrusaitis said the shelter believes Nevills is not the woman who spoke with Wyrick because she differs in body type and description. Nevertheless, at some point Nevills took possession of the dog. After Wyrick found a permanent residence, he approached Nevills about recovering his pet of 14 years.
Nevills reportedly has refused to return the dog. Nevills was at her home Friday afternoon but would not respond to requests for comment. The sound of a dog could be heard outside of her north Independence home.
Residents throughout the area have offered Nevills money or puppies as an incentive to return the dog to Wyrick after seeing the story on television.
Nevills is not a shelter volunteer. She has volunteered with the Independence Police Department's K-9 unit, according to Baltrusaitis.
Nevills and her husband have done grass and landscape work, as well as raised money for the department's K-9 program.
"We don't have volunteers who take care of dogs," Baltrusaitis said." The volunteers take care of other things."
To reach Andre Riley, e-mail andre.riley@examiner.net or call (816) 350-6362.
"Who saved the dog? The woman who now has the dog and wishes to keep it."
Are you sure about that? From the article above:
"City of Independence spokesperson Irene Baltrusaitis said the shelter believes Nevills is not the woman who spoke with Wyrick because she differs in body type and description."
Yes.
Grew up listening to them.
Their one video was interesting..
The one for Joan Crawford.
*chuckle*
Zombies, the undead, truly odd and cool video.
Aw crap.
Now I have go back upstairs and get the *other* jammies....:))
[there's another NO critter thread going...and the same crap here is also there...it never ends]
The uncensored version or the MTV version?
The uncensored one was [by 80s standards] too "kinky" for MTV.
Boy...have times changed or what?
Thank goodness for VH2 Classics....:))
*sigh*
Didn't get to see the incensored version.
Though with a little digging I am certain I could find it.
;-)
I cannot imagine a child having to lose a pet, but, I do think an adult can hurt just as bad when beloved friend is no longer with us.
Rawhide's and Salamander's comment's should be the norm of human spirit. Well, I can hope!
Doesn't sound like that.
Seems by now someone should at least be curious about how well the old Shep is doing at his new digs. Hiding and hiding and hiding sure doesn't LOOK like the behavior of an innocent citizen outraged that the previous owner of her dog has turned out to be an Indian giver.
Well if you ever do, FReepmail me.
I saw it once before it was yanked and replaced with the edit.
It wasn't that big of a deal.
A very short, nearly subliminal scene showed "Joan" presumably kissing a woman.
It was during the scene where they show the woman with the hat & sunglasses sitting back behind the hedge,
If you blinked, you missed it.
I mean geeze...that's how she 'swung', anyway....LOL!
She's probably emotionally ramping it up to them and portraying it as a mean man trying to take their new pet away.
Sick.
Just sick.
Oh, THAT version?
Saw that.
Sheesh, that was rather tame.
*chuckle*
Matter of fact, MTV now shows the video for Blink 182's song "I miss you" which shows supposedly two girls kissing.
Thing is, the one girl looks more like a guy in drag.. but just barely so.
Don't recall where I saw that version though.
Will have to find it.
The one video I could get to work showed the dog looking out the window with a thousand yard stare and woofing until someone inside the house obviously yelled for her to stop and come away from the window.
Her eyes plainly showed "how she's doing".....:(
She sounds low enough to do just that very thing.
The only out is if she is genuinely sick, and not "sick" as I know you meant it.
Everyone I've told about this story is just as incensed as we are about it. Think maybe she is on some kind of power trip that is giving her a weird kick out of the control and attention.
>As I mentioned on another thread servoce dogs do not have to be 'certified' under federal or state laws.<
I'd love to see him sue the apartment that forbade his bringing the GSD with him in the first place.
I thought so too but the 80s were the 50s compared to now...:))
HE could and would win *if* the dog is a service animal.
True.
Back in the 80's, someone keeping somebody else's dog would suffer crushing outrage and censure.
Now to some people, it is as nothing.
"Think maybe she is on some kind of power trip that is giving her a weird kick out of the control and attention."
Yup...and pure spite.
The first video plainly shows the dog's face.
I've seen that look before.
The second Doberman I got had that look for almost a year.
Even though he loved me, he kept waiting for his old owner to come back for him.
You never forget or ever mistake that "look" for anything else, once you've seen it.
At 14, doing this to the dog is going to be very detrimental to her health.
The white trash skanky b*tch.
She had no importance in life so she had to connive herself some.
Time for me to go to sleep now.
I'm getting really close to verbalizing my true thoughts out loud.....>:-{
I intend to write whomever I can find until she gives over.
I'll keep checking these threads for more info as people find it.
Gotta sleep now.
Getting really, really p*ssed off about it all.
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