Dead Dog Left Lying In City Street For 2 Days - City Budget Cutbacks May Be To Blame

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[chance33_98]

Dead Dog Left Lying In City Street For 2 Days

City Budget Cutbacks May Be To Blame

POSTED: 10:23 p.m. CST February 3, 2003 UPDATED: 10:46 p.m. CST February 3, 2003

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A dog hit by a car Sunday morning has yet to be picked up by the city, and thanks to budget cutbacks, it may be a while before anyone gets around to removing it, KMBC reported.

The dog died at 85th and Boone streets. A neighborhood resident, Bob Soldi, dragged the dog's body to the curb, out of the way of traffic.

"I actually got one of my golf glubs, a three iron, and hooked it on his collar and pulled it over that way," Soldi said.

Soldi called the city to pick up the animal's body, but so far no one has. Cuts to the city budget may be to blame, KMBC reported. Kansas City Animal Control is no longer staffed at night or on weekends, so jobs like this one may have to wait.

"The reaction to people walking down the street sometimes is pretty startling when you can see it," Soldi said.

One pedestrian was surprised to see the dog lying on the curb.

"The city should have been doing their job. They shouldn't have been cutting back on animal control," a passerby said.

KMBC reported that residents will continue to call animal control until the dog's body is picked up.

[LibKill]

It took a lot longer to write this drivel than it would have taken to a: drag dead dog to the nearest dumpster and throw in, b: wash hands.

Is there no initiative in Kansas City? Are there no civic-minded folks?

[Rightly Biased]

--I would have picked up the dead dog and dropped it off at City Hall.....--

LOL,My Brother did that once with his trash that the city wouldn't pick up even though he paid his bill they got the hint.

[ladyjane]

KMBC reported that residents will continue to call animal control until the dog's body is picked up.

Are these people disabled? In any decent neighborhood a dad would go out and remove the poor thing. Look at the message this gives to the children in the neighborhood.

[putupon]

If they didn't give out so many food stamps they wouldn't have much problem with road kill laying around.

[Noslrac]

sometimes you have to wonder about city folk. Its not like the dead dog is gonna up and bite you. Remove the dang thing yourself. In rural missouri, there is always some sort of animal alongside the highways until something comes along and drags it off. Its sad when the great people living in cities must depend on some government employee to move an animal because they don't want to be close to something dead. What do they think a steak is?

[Noslrac]

I think maybe that is the problem, kids are sheltered from any sort of death. Seems as if there is a generation of people, or maybe it just has to do with them living in a city, that are scared of anything that doesn't have blood flowing through it.