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Stephanie Keaton
 May 17, 07 - 7:45 PM |
Why did I die?
WHY DID I DIE?? PLEASE DON’T LET IT BE IN VAIN!! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/350146472?z00m=9430292<l=117 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/350146472?z00m=9430292<l=1179281318 I was available for adoption 5/8/07 and I was gassed before the dog pound opened up today (5/8/07)! I never had chance to meet a new family, to be loved or to give love. All I wanted was to belong to someone who would love me! This dog never had a chance! How can people adopt when they are killing dogs before the available date and time. The Lorain County Dog Pound opens at 10 am and they kill dogs on the day they are available for adoption. The pound will try to tell you this dog was aggressive or maybe they will tell you it was sick. They are telling two different stories as to why this little dog was destroyed. No dog should die the day they become available for adoption. No one had a chance to see this dog or give it a loving home. I called the morning of the 8th, the first day the dog was available for adoption, and was told the dog was sick, I offered to pick her up and take him to my vet and was told it was too late, the dog had been put down at 8 am that morning. She was herded into a small stone room and gassed. The county has funds set aside for medical care of animals that come to the pound, they should have sought medical care for this little sweetie. They may be able to se when a dog is sick or injured but they are by no means qualified to judge whether the dog should be destroyed! LOOK AT THIS FACE, I BEG YOU....SHE DIDN’T HAVE TO DIE IN A GAS CHAMBER. THE LORAIN COUNTY DOG POUND IS A HIGH KILL SHELTER. DOGS ARE HERDED INTO A SMALL ROOM AND GASSED. IT IS A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE!!! Euthanasia shots cost 93 cents a piece and are a much more humane way to end suffering. The Chihuahua, euthanized at the county dog pound Tuesday just hours before it would have been available for adoption, has local dog rescuers and county Commissioner Lori Kokoski barking mad. Kokoski now wants the county to extend the amount of time dogs are kept alive to give them a better chance of being adopted. “We’re trying to promote adoption, and we’re euthanizing them on their adoption day? It doesn’t make any sense,” she said. Deborah Parker, who runs Saint Francis Animal Sanctuary Inc. in Vermilion, said she went to the pound Tuesday to adopt the Chihuahua, but the dog already was dead when she arrived shortly after it opened at 10 a.m. “He’s not even giving the dogs a chance for us to adopt them,” she said of county Dog Warden Jack Szlempa Sr. Szlempa said he often keeps dogs longer than he’s legally required so they have a better chance to be adopted. But on Tuesday, the pound was at more than 80 percent capacity and he needed the room. He also said the Chihuahua was aggressive. “If I look back on it, I wish I wouldn’t have done it, but I was within my rights,” he said. “My question to them is what about all the dogs I’ve saved?” Under Ohio law, dog wardens are required to keep any dog they catch for three days to give an owner time to rescue their dog. After that time, the dog warden can put the dog up for adoption or euthanize it. Kokoski’s proposal, which she expects the commissioners to vote on next week, will prohibit dogs from being destroyed on the fourth day after their capture. If the first day a dog is eligible for adoption falls on Tuesday or Friday — when the pound euthanizes dogs — Szlempa would be required to delay the killing until the next euthanasia day. Parker said this isn’t the first time a dog has been euthanized on the day it would have become eligible for adoption. In January, for instance, she said an elderly man had come down to adopt a Scottish terrier and was told the dog had been euthanized just hours before. Szlempa doesn’t seem interested in saving dogs, she said.“That dog never had a chance,” Parker said. Parker also disagreed with Szlempa characterizing the Chihuahua as aggressive. “We’re talking about a teacup Chihuahua that weighs five pounds. How vicious could it be?” she said. Jack Szlempa, the dog warden, has never returned my call. The pound workers told me , “He makes the decisions as to who gets gassed.” SOMEONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS AWFUL PRACTICE AND ITS GOING TO STOP! They are closed Sunday and Monday and they gas dogs Tuesday morning before they open.... THESE POOR DOGS DO NOT HAVE A CHANCE... Even if they have NO compassion for the animals WHAT ABOUT THE BOTTOM LINE? Funds are being LOST for the County when adoptable dogs are being destroyed. One dog being killed per week that could have been adopted would generate funds of $1,508.00 per year. These funds could be funneled back into the pound and used for much needed improvements and staff education. HOW MUCH OF THIS GOES ON THAT WE DO NOT KNOW ABOUT? SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS GROSS INJUSTICE. Our p |
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