Too sad.
Posted on 11/19/2010 2:59:40 AM PST by plinyelder
A hero dog who helped save U.S. solders from a suicide bomber in Afghanistan was euthanized today by mistake at an Arizona shelter.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedogfiles.com ...
Too sad.
I really can't get a ratrional handle on this.
A worker decided to kill a dog evem though one was not slated for death?
This sort of thing never happens at hospitals. /sarc
Looking at your profile/mobius page took my mind off of the post at hand .. (Sad as it is).
Wanted to ask .. Have you ever cut one of those paper mobius strips around the middle with a pair of scissors?
My mom told me about this tragedy yesterday. My response was that maybe her days of being a hero have been fulfilled. God wanted her to rest. At least she went to the Rainbow Bridge whole and not mutilated or hungry.
I don't know if it was the right answer. If it was my dog, I'd be freaking out. Nothing would appease me.
“Target did not have a microchip and was not licensed in the county” and she had “slipped out” of the owners yard.
The owner failed to take several precautions before the dog got out of his yard so he is culpable also. in this case it sounds as if the employee was a paid worker but Most shelters are forced to use a mix of very low paid workers and volunteers and it is hard for them to keep competent workers.
Yes, the dog should have at least had a collar and tags, but my husband won't license our dogs because he thinks it's unfair cats can roam free with no license while our dogs are fenced on our property— all a license is is a dog tax by a different name.
Doesn’t it just break your heart? Look in the face of that dog and after all she went through she still looked so loving and protective.
Mark Levin BEGAN his Wednesday show with this very story.
For those who wish to hear his remarks, go to marklevinshow.com, click on audio, and then click on the Wednesday broadcast.
Whoops, I made a mistake. It was his Tuesday show. I’m sorry; I listened to it on Wednesday, so I confused myself!
Yet.
I am happy to say our SPCA is a no kill facility. This could not have happened here. My heart breaks for this family.
To those that say, “it was just a dog”, I say that I like dogs a lot more than people, yet I don’t want people euthanized (murdered) either.
She died on her birthday at age 14. I had such a special connection with her I said that day that I will never again own a dog. That didn't last as a female Doberman was bequeathed to me by a friend. She's a great dog but she can't compare to the dog I delivered, raised, spent 14 years with and then buried.
So many idiots in the world! What kind of person kills a dog without being 100% sure it’s the right thing. And what kind of “journalist” calls this an accident. Words have meaning, and this was a mistake, not an accident [just like allowing Obama into our White House was a mistake not an accident].
If you do have a no-kill shelter you must have very strong licensing, spay and neuter laws and strong enforcement of them or there has to be another shelter nearby that is doing the killing for your area. No-kill shelters cannot exist without strong laws, they quickly run out of space and personnel to care for all the animals brought to them.
Volunteers DO euthanize animals, my wife has been doing it for years. she is the director of the local shelter and president of the local SPCA and works an average of 40-60 hours per week with no pay.
Actually it happens all the time. You just don’t hear about it because they don’t autopsy the elderly.
Several years ago here in Macomb County, MI, a local paper ran a story about two fishermen who rescued a golden lab they found swimming along a breakwall in Lake St. Clair. The paper even had a picture of the dog with the fishermen. Well, the fishermen took it to the local shelter like most people do.
The following week the paper followed up on the story thinking it turned out ok. Well, they found out the shelter euthanized the dog saying "it was sick"........
That made ME sick.....
A couple years ago a lost standard poodle wandered onto my back deck as I was lying in the sun. I called up the local animal shelter to ask if anyone had reported it lost and they said someone did call to report a lost poodle but it wasn't a guarantee that it was the one I had. (like they get hundreds of calls a day about lost standard poodles...LOL!) So they asked me to bring it in. Well, knowing what I now know about those shelters I told them my car was too small for it to fit in my passenger seat and to just give me the phone number of the family and I'd call them. They said they couldn't do that.....
So I gave them my number and finally about two hours later, the shelter called and said the family had called them again and would I be willing to call them so I said sure.
When I called them, they were already in my subdivision searching for the dog so they arrived minutes later. Turns out that dog wandered away from their yard about 4 miles away and traveled thru I don't know how many subdivisions before arriving at my place and chose my deck.
From what I have managed to piece together, the shelter won't call you back if you report a lost pet, it's up to you to keep checking with them. Had they taken the family's phone number when they initially called, they could have saved them 2 hours of searching for their dog......
I don't know why they're called "Animal Shelters" when the grizzly fact is that they're nothing but animal death facilities......
Now THAT at least is a logical explanation.
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