[fluistulkn]

"MCCACC-worse emplyees EVER-My dog was killed, thanks! (anyone)



Just so you all know, if you have lost a pet with a microchip and you still have not found the dog, It did not just disapear, the pound probably picked it up and euthanized it...

MY STORY

My carpet cleaner guy left my front door open and my dog bolted to chase a cat. He WAS microchipped and wore a collar with ID and rabies tag as well. My work schedule is a 8-5, call in and you get fired. I had to look at the pound on a weekend. My dogs license was looked up as someone turned him in....WITHOUT CALLING MY NUMBER ON HIS TAG...The pound NEVER called me and they said NO chip found!! They had record of him being euthanized after 4 days getting a sniffle. They should have re-scanned his whole body cause chips can migrate away from shoulder area. Now family griences of losing our lab mix of 7 years because of their carelessness.

NOTE TO SELF: The pound employees assume every dog is not chipped, no family will come looking, and it will die anyway so why not do it now....another note, I HATE THE POUND EMPLOYEES AND IM SUING THEM!!! "

This is a CL posting. Ive seen a bunch of them recently..

[traithJah]

That happens all too often here,also.There have been several news stories about it.In most of the cases made public,it turns out that the dog was picked up and pts within a matter of hours.They are supposed to hold the dog for 72 hours to give owners a chance to claim them.

[Zmniubqr]

That's extraordinarily pathetic. They really just do not care at all, do they?

[GennadiyRom]

Fine example of why I crate my dogs unless I am RIGHT THERE to handle them especially with ''carpet cleaner guys'' wandering around. What a horrible tragedy. For all the amazing shelter workers out there, there are just as many that I SWEAR took the job just so they can kill dogs.

[traithJah]

Fine example of why I crate my dogs unless I am RIGHT THERE to handle them especially with ''carpet cleaner guys'' wandering around. What a horrible tragedy. For all the amazing shelter workers out there, there are just as many that I SWEAR took the job just so they can kill dogs.

"That's extraordinarily pathetic. They really just do not care at all, do they"? Ignitethis,I'm with Zoe.I swear it's not that they don't care.Some of them just like doing that crap.

[patrycjakolekk]

That person said the dog was euthed after 4 days.

Apparently it never occurred to them to actually call the shelter or go down and look for the dog...until the weekend.

I get it... they work. I don't know how much I believe the whole "call in once and get fired" thing, but I'll buy it for the sake of argument. I'll also assume for the sake of argument that there was absolutely no way for her to go down on a break or request to leave early one day.

But I DON'T accept that she could not make a phone call.

It's also very plausible that the shelter either didn't scan for a chip, or missed it when they did scan. Though I highly doubt that a dog that came in with tags on it's collar is gonna be over looked. Even if the folks at that shelter hate animals, and WANT to euth. them, why would they keep it around for four days and kill it only because it showed signs of ill health if they just wanted to kill it right off? When it would be so much less hassle just to call the number on the tag and get the dog out of there?

My guess is she's either lying for effect in claiming the dog had tags, or the dog lost it's tags somehow before winding up in the shelter.

Doesn't sound like she spent ANY time looking for the dog, even after work, and she says nothing about posting any adds or flyers.

I might buy it if the dog was immidiately euthed. But the dog was held for four days, and only euthed because it started showing signs of illness.

She didn't even TRY to get her dog back. She was under the assumption that it was her neighbor's, and the shelter's ultimate responsibility to find her dog for her, and get it back to her with no effort on her part.

I do not feel sorry for this woman, but I feel very bad for the dog, who didn't even have a caring owner.

[Lictimind]

That person said the dog was euthed after 4 days.

Apparently it never occurred to them to actually call the shelter or go down and look for the dog...until the weekend.

I get it... they work. I don't know how much I believe the whole "call in once and get fired" thing, but I'll buy it for the sake of argument. I'll also assume for the sake of argument that there was absolutely no way for her to go down on a break or request to leave early one day.

But I DON'T accept that she could not make a phone call.

It's also very plausible that the shelter either didn't scan for a chip, or missed it when they did scan. Though I highly doubt that a dog that came in with tags on it's collar is gonna be over looked. Even if the folks at that shelter hate animals, and WANT to euth. them, why would they keep it around for four days and kill it only because it showed signs of ill health if they just wanted to kill it right off? When it would be so much less hassle just to call the number on the tag and get the dog out of there?

My guess is she's either lying for effect in claiming the dog had tags, or the dog lost it's tags somehow before winding up in the shelter.

Doesn't sound like she spent ANY time looking for the dog, even after work, and she says nothing about posting any adds or flyers.

I might buy it if the dog was immidiately euthed. But the dog was held for four days, and only euthed because it started showing signs of illness.

She didn't even TRY to get her dog back. She was under the assumption that it was her neighbor's, and the shelter's ultimate responsibility to find her dog for her, and get it back to her with no effort on her part.

I do not feel sorry for this woman, but I feel very bad for the dog, who didn't even have a caring owner.

This, spot on.

If my dog got loose, I don't even give a shit about my job. I'm looking for my dog NOW. I'm not waiting until the weekend, I'm not making excuses. I would be calling every single shelter, vet office and rescue from here until, well, a long distance to let them know my dog is gone. I'm not taking any chances.

A simple 5 minute phone call probably would have saved that dogs life. Ultimately, the owner just didn't care.

[patrycjakolekk]

This is a perfect example of the "entitlement" issue the folks in this country are facing. Everyone seems to think that everything should be provided to them.

People seem to WANT every part of their lives to be micro managed by someone else. It's pitiful when people can't do anything for themselves then cry "victim" when things don't go their way.

[Arrecteve]

BS were my thoughts while reading it,.. even the carpet cleaning part. Even when I vacuum my dogs are crated. If I'm cleaning the carpet (or having it done) that defeats the purpose to have them loose.

I know ,.. everybody's not like me and doesn't think like me,.. my mom told me that quite a bit while growing up. But this whole story just smells of probably 98% BS. It's their fault, this whole thing could have been prevented in more ways then one. But of course they take the easy way out and point the finger at everyone but them.

[traithJah]

A simple 5 minute phone call probably would have saved that dogs life. Ultimately, the owner just didn't care. When my house caught on fire this past summer I got a call from my husbands Grandma saying that AC had called and had one of my dogs.When I called to find out which one and say I was coming I was told my dog wasn't there.While waiting for my ride I spoke to three different people all of whom insisted that my dog wasn't there.When I got down there it was true,my "dog" wasn't there,all three of them were.

[Sowsunese]

ACs won't always tell you on the phone if they have your dog (or a dog that resembles yours. I once had a foster dog get impounded when the potential adopter had her for the weekend and got hit by a car when he was pulled over on the shoulder (car hit him, not his truck). He was taken to the hospital and she was taken to AC. The nurses at the hospital could only tell me which highway it occured on, and this highway goes through many counties so I called several. They all told me I have to come down and look for her, they could not tell me over the phone. I found her 2 days later. She was also chipped, and not scanned. And she was taken to an AC that does not adopt out pit bulls (they euth all the ones that do not get pulled by rescues). Apparently they never scanned her as well and they got some shit from me when I came to get her. I also had to pay a fee because the idiot took her tag collar off and put a new fancy spiked leather collar on her so she had no rabies tag. Needless to say I threw that expensive looking collar in the trash...

[traithJah]

What I didn't understand about my situation is that they obviously did scan my dogs since they called the number that I had listed with the microchip.My dogs didn't even have tags on their collars.I kept telling the dumbasses that obviously my dog was there somewhere.I guess they just randomly called grandma's number and by huge coincidence my dogs did get picked up that day.

[Lictimind]

The story doesn't say she called AC. So that's a moot point. Maybe it would make sense if the person said, "I called and they lied to me about having my dog" but she didn't, so we'll never know. If that happened, then I can see some basis for being angry.

Regardless, if my dog got loose (which is the root of the problem in this story), I would risk my job to save his life. It's about choices and responsibility - is an animals life worth a job? It depends. For me, I would say fuck my job, my dog is more important. Maybe this person couldn't do that, and it goes back to what was already said, do you buy her claim that if she called in, she got fired, she couldn't explain the situation to a boss, couldn't get a lunch break to go look, couldn't get somebody to cover, etc and so forth, all the points brought up by Gator.

[CializCialiscsqw]

Yea I dont get why they didnt call. Everyone has a job but they can call or call a friend or SOMEONE to check to see if the dog is there

[MoreEndotte]

AC is nothing but bullshit no matter how you look at it.