Question: Can you get some explanation of why it took two days to get a Forsyth County Animal Control officer to respond to a seriously injured dog on South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive earlier this week? The dog lay beside the road suffering needlessly. — C.C.
Answer: Tim Jennings, director of Forsyth County Animal Control, said that late in the day on Monday, they received a report of an injured dog along that stretch of road. An officer responded but could not find the dog, Jennings said, and the callback number for the person who reported the dog was not answered when the officer called to get better location information.
[A lazy officer will fly by going 50+ mph and immediately clear it that they couldn't find the animal.]
A second officer was notified of other reports that the dog was still there.
"Unfortunately the officer determined the call had already been responded to, not addressing it as a priority call,” Jennings said in an email reply to SAM.
[The second officer is just as worthless. Did s/he bother to call the first officer? This is what happens when you hire people who don't care about animals to be animal control officers.]
Animal Control Officers found and picked up the dog Tuesday morning. The dog, a brown Labrador mix, had no identification and had to be euthanized because of its injuries.
The department has talked to the second officer about how the situation was handled, Jennings said.
"The department finds this lack of judgment by our staff member to be unacceptable and have taken appropriate actions to address it ,” Jennings said.
(Winston Salem Journal - Oct 25, 2013)
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