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| RIP Jack |
Dog owner John Pearcy said, “If there’s a violent dog death in the shop then they’re obviously doing the procedures wrong.” Pearcy had placed his small Papillion named Jack at Jade’s Pet Club boarding in Papillion, Nebraska.
Owner Andrea Pettid said her husband was feeding the boarded dogs Thanksgiving when the small dog went to the bowl in a kennel of a hound dog named Blaze. Pettid described what happened next.
“My husband went to scoop up the little dog and the little dog kind of yelped because I think my husband scared him. The little dog swung around and bit my husband so the big dog went for the little dog.”
[Show me the bite report for her husband. Show me his visit to a doctor for the bite. And explain to me why this little dog was in this area with these large dogs in the first place.
She justifies it by saying the hound was 'probably protecting its kennel area'. She doesn't know. She wasn't there.
I want to see the bites on her husband from the hound to prove that he intervened immediately to save little Jack. After all, she says he was bent down trying to pick up the small dog and 'it swung around and bit him'. So he would've had his arms right in the way for when the hound attacked. Oh? He doesn't have bites on his hands? What did he do, simply stand there while little Jack was mauled?
Or could it be that no one was there, that this whole story is made up? They left little Jack unattended in a roomful of large dogs and they found him mortally injured. That's what I believe happened.]
The kennel owner said the seven year old blood hound [that's not a Bloodhound, it looks like an American Foxhound to me] was probably protecting its kennel area. While not seizing the hound dog, the Nebraska Humane Society cited the boarding kennel owner. Humane Society Operations Vice President Mark Langan said, “The law is called owner liability. This will allow a judge to order this person to pay restitution to the owner of the small dog.”
The kennel owner said she apologizes and won’t let big and little dogs in the same area again. After paying for the vet bills to try to save the small dog, she’s offering to pay $200 for a replacement puppy.
[She did not pay vet bills to SAVE THE SMALL DOG. She took the dog to the vet and had him put to sleep - without the owner's permission. She did not say to the vet, "Whatever it costs, I'll pay. Spare no expense to save him b/c it's our fault that he's injured." She chose the cheaper route and simply had him put down.]
But the owner of Jack said money and apologies won’t bring back his faithful friend. John Pearcy said, “That makes it really worse for me knowing I took him there and he died violently.”
(WOWT - Nov 29, 2011)
