The mangy mutt.
Posted on 11/01/2009 10:29:11 AM PST by missycocopuffs
The complaint that led to her firing began as a routine missing dog case.
Rochester resident Janet Torren said her 4-year-old dog, Shai, went missing on Sept. 18 after it escaped while she was visiting her son’s home on Birch Street.
Torren said the dog had a microchip implanted in her ear. She said she called the microchip company, 24PetWatch.com, and learned the Stoughton dog officer had scanned the chip into the system on Sept. 18.
Torren said she called the dog officer on Sept. 21, and Bousquet said in a taped message that she had no knowledge of the dog.
The dog was not licensed in Rochester, according to news reports.
By state law, dog pounds are required to shelter stray dogs for 10 days before they can be adopted.
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I know that in the world of government, there are bigger fish to fry, but these municipal *public servants* who then use their positions to thieve off the public really tick me off. Plus, taking someone's beloved dog...it just ain't right!
Back in Oct 2007 when my house burned we put our animals in our RV (GMC 24ft Duchman) because we couldn’t take them to the house the insurance company rented for us to live in while our house was being rebuilt.
My husband stopped in every morning on his way to work to feed them and every night on his way home to clean out the kitty litter pan.
After about 4 or 5 days my husband, on his evening stop, found a garbage bag with something in it tied to the mirror on the passenger side of our RV. When he opened it up it made him sick.
There was our Babykins. Our tiny little black cat dead. She had been a very sickly kitten. She didn’t grow like her brother and sister. She stayed very tiny like a kitten while they grew to a regular cat size. Although we took extra special care of her and nursed her along and got her to a little over a year old she never did grow. She was like a miniature cat.
My husband found a card from our local animal control asking him to call stuck in the door of the RV. They told him they got an anonymous call saying that we had abandoned our animals in our RV and they were starving to death.
Husband was mad as all get out. We’ve been harassed for year’s by his ex and it’s even listed on the animal control’s books, that not once out of all the calls since 1990 had we ever been found to have any problem.
The animal control woman who came out to check out the false complaint, went in our RV,(without permission) found nothing wrong but slammed our little Babykins head in the door, killing her as she was leaving. Then stuck her little body in the garbage bag and tied it to the mirror on the RV. Just left it hanging there for us to find little Babykins dead body.
My husband was terribly upset. He was so upset he threw up. And when he called the animal control ladies boss he told him that if they got any more false complaints they would not be able to enter our RV because from then on the doors would be kept locked and if they wanted in to check our animals again they could stop by in the morning when he fed them on his way to work or in the evening on his way home when he changed the litter box. And to never send that woman who killed Babykins again. If they wanted to check us out send someone else.
Bitch.
It’s not at all clear that the police officer or his girlfriend were aware the animal control officer had stolen the dog and lied to the owner about it. It doesn’t strike me as suspicious that a police officer wanting a certain kind of dog would ask the animal control officer to keep an eye out for one that was relinquished/confiscated/unclaimed so he could adopt it. And I sort of doubt the animal control officer called up the police officer and said “Hi, I found a dog like what you’re looking for; I scanned it and it belongs to some lady here in town, but I’ll just give it to you, and if she calls, I’ll just tell her I’ve never seen it”. Seems much more likely she just told him she had a dog available for adoption that was like what he wanted, and left it at that. He’d reasonably assume that she’d done whatever she was supposed to with regards to locating its original owner.
She got what’s coming to her. She’s now unemployed in a period of extremely high and rising unemployment, and the reason for her newfound unemployment is sprawled all over the Internet. And she won’t be eligible for unemployment checks, because she was fired for cause. Maybe she can a get a job working the graveyard shift at some greasy spoon at a truckstop for minimum wage and lousy tips, but in these times, she’ll be lucky to get even that.
Sickening. I think the job description for animal control is generally accepted to be the humane capture/care of stray or abandoned animals with public safety in mind, get those animals with owners back to their owners, adopt out those without owners if possible, and humanely euthanize those who cannot be adopted out. Your animal control officer didn’t measure up by a long stretch.
The mangy mutt.
Who knows. But at least she got the axe quickly.
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