Humane Society Being Sued
By cyrus123
@cyrus123 (6363)
United States
November 8, 2010 12:52am CST
I'm trying this discussion again because I posted the links wrong while ago. Anyway, our humane society has been having a lot of problems for quite sometime because like everybody else, they are having a lot of financial problems and they just dont have the space to house any more animals. What's even worse is that they are being sued because they euthanized a dog that was brought to them last spring because they claimed that the dog was aggressive when they tried to get him out of his crate. What happened was, the dog had jumped the fence onto a neighbor's property and they took him to the humane society. The owner went to get him the next day and he was so upset because they told him they put the dog down. It looks like they would have told the people who brought the dog there in the first place that they just didn't have any room for any more dogs. What I don't get out of this is that I have known Lane Reno,the director of the humane society, for a long time and she has always been nice to me. This first video might upset you, especially if you are an animal lover like I am. Please watch and let me know what you think about this situation. Here are those links again. These are not referral links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rEcS-ChxB8, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAniAxm0VII&feature=related.
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@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
8 Nov 10
I'm sure there is a labor of Sisyphus what Humane Society is doing.
But I don't think it's OK to put a dog to sleep in the same day he was brought to the shelter. I can understand that he had to be put to sleep because he was aggresive, but, can't they wait until the next day to see if anybody claims the dog? He didn't look like a stray dog to me, didn't they think there is somewhere an owner who will look for his lost dog?
I don't know the whole story, but I can only imagine how heartbreaking must be to loose your dog and to find out he was put to sleep in a shelter, in less than 24 hours.
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@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
9 Nov 10
I don't know what "Sisyphus" means. I agree with you. I don't think it's right for them to put a dog to sleep the day he was brought to the shelter. They need to give it more time to see if anybody comes to claim the dog. According to the video, the dog wasn't aggressive but the girl who runs the humane society said he was. He (the dog) did have an owner but the owner didn't go by to claim him until the next day. No, he wasn't a stray dog. I don't really know the whole story, myself. I just know what I read in the newspaper. I remember when my daddy was living, we had a dog that was bad to run away from home a lot and she ended up at the humane society. I think it was the next day when he went to get her and she was okay.
@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
14 Nov 10
I remember when my daddy was living, we had a Golden Retriever that was bad to run away from home all the time. She ended up at the humane society one time and daddy went to pick her the next day, I think it was, and she was okay. The humane society was under different management at the time. Daddy made an I.D. tag for her using an old American Express Card after that. What was so funny is that my mothr old my sister and my nephew about this. My nephew said "Don't leave home without it". That was Aerican Express's slogan at the time, lol
! I didn't think about the possibility of the dog's owner being out of town when the dog escaped. Anyway, it's still a sad case
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! I didn't think about the possibility of the dog's owner being out of town when the dog escaped. Anyway, it's still a sad case.@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
9 Nov 10
Sisyphus was a greek mithology character, who was punished by Zeus. Sisyohus was forced to roll an enormous boulder to the top of a steep hill. Every time the boulder neared the top, it would roll back down, and Sisyphus would have to start over.
That's exactly what Humane Society is doing. They gather stray dogs and find homes for them, but the next day there are other dozens of strays that come, and their work will never end.
I don't know the details of the story, but that girl said the boxer wanted to bite them when they tried to take him out of the cage. But I think even the most calm and nice dog can become aggresive if he is surrounded by so many strangers in a place like that. Assuming he was aggresive, he still shouldn't be put to sleep before searching for his owner. What if the dog's owner wasn't in town for a day or so, and the dog escaped?
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@hvedra (1619)
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8 Nov 10
This doesn't surprise me at all, there have been similar cases in the UK involving the RSPCA.
Whenever a big org or government department is involved in the welfare of living things - be it animals or humans - they don't vet their employees or, more typically, their managers for any kind of empathy or sense at all.
These are people who tick boxes and do jobs on autopilot. I do not understand how any person could put down a healthy dog like Boost was so quickly. To do that kind of think you have to be souless and uncaring and downright callous to the point of treating living things like they are worthless inanimate objects. In other words these people are the OPPOSITE of how any welfare worker should be.
@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
9 Nov 10
I wasn't aware that these things have happened in the UK. This is the first time that anything like this has happened with our humane society and it's had a lot of people outraged! I remember when my daddy was living, we had a Golden Retriever that was bad to run away from home a lot. She ended up at the humane society and daddy went to get her the next day. She was fine. The humane society was under different management back then. Daddy made an I.D. tag for her after this. He used an old American Express card as an I.D. tag and attached to her collar. Mother told my sister and her son (my nephew) about it sometime later. My nephew said, "Don't leave home without it", lol! He could always come up with something funny to say
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! He could always come up with something funny to say!1 person likes this
@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
9 Nov 10
I know it! This is just awful, isn't it?! I remember when my daddy was living, we had a dog that was bad to run away from home a lot. She (it was a female dog) ended up at the humane society. Daddy went to pick her up the next day, I think it was, and she was fine. The humane society was under different management back then. Daddy had an I.D. tag put on her collar after this happened. What was so funny was that he used an old American Express Card to make her an I.D. tag. Mother told my sister and her son (my nephew) about this. My nephew said "Don't leave home without it", lol! That was American Express's slogan at the time.
! That was American Express's slogan at the time.