(Warning: Grab the tissues for this one.)
It’s sad when a dog runs away or escapes. It’s heartbreaking, really. Wandering around, posting fliers, searching the neighborhood, calling neighbors — it’s stressful, especially when the idea creeps into your mind that you’ll never see your dog again or that he/she got hit by a car.
You know what’s really sad, though? If you discover that your dog is safe and sound, that some kind stranger found the pup and took him to the pound, and you get to the pound and your dog is dead because they killed him by mistake.
That’s exactly what happened in Stark County recently.
This article appears in Nov 24-30, 2010.
Why does it take tragedys to facillitate changes. I realise mistakes happen. If organizations would follow and apply the rules and laws that are already in place there would be a lot less MISTAKES. More people need to admit,accept responsibillity, when their wrong and/or make mistakes,but they also need to ensure that they dont repeatedly make the same mistake. Obviously the warden was not in compliance with the euthinasia law to begin with.