Dogs drowned in SEWAGE?

[nadooshkinz]

This is appalling, someone at another forum I'm part of posted this:
[quote]My neighbor works for the city here and recently did a very stupid thing. He took 6 "diseased" dogs down to the sewege plant and drown them. They were suppossed to be put down humainely by a vet but the vet was on vacation.
Also by "diseased" that means that 4 of them had severe mange and the other 2 had tumors and bleeding originating from malnutrition and neglect. This to me is very disturbing.

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no comment. :cry:

[nadooshkinz]

[quote name='FearedDogFan']That is really sick! :o If nothing could have been done about them, or to help them, all he needed was a big syringe. That's so bad! :evil: I have heard that it is terrible to die by drowning. RIP, poor doggies.

BTW, what breed(s) were they?[/quote]
I have no clue! The girl posting this was ranting about the fact that reporters were invading her quiet little town(pathetic if you ask me :roll:) So there weren't many details, I'll try to find out though.

[nadooshkinz]

I found an article:
[quote]Jourdanton, Texas A public works supervisor has been disciplined this week for ordering city employees to drown stray dogs at the city sewer plant to save money.

"There was an incident. It only happened once that I know of and I have taken corrective action," said City Manager Dan Nick. "The individual is going to be going to classes with animal control and we'll be writing up a policy so nothing out of the ordinary happens again."

Nick declined to name the person who was disciplined or confirm details of the episode, which he described as "a freak incident, a one-time bad decision."

However, others said public works supervisor Chantan Morin ordered six dogs drowned on July 11. Morin could not be reached for comment Friday.

"I'm really upset about it. They were taking dogs from the impound over to the sewer plant and dropping them down in cages to drown them," said City Councilman Darrell Richter.

He said the incident became public knowledge this week after complaints were heard from at least one family of youths who witnessed it while they were doing community service with the city.

"Some kids were working with the city employees and one of the young men got so upset and disturbed that he told his mother," Richter said.

The mother of one of the young men said her son was called by Mayor Tammy Clark on Thursday.

"Yesterday when the mayor called, he (the youth) told her that they were drowning dogs in cages, two or three at a time," she said, asking that the family's name not be published.

"My son was only doing his community service. I don't want him involved in this," she said.

According to Richter, Morin admitted ordering the dogs drowned.

"The mayor told me he 'fessed up that he had told them to do it," he said.

Clark could not be reached for comment.

By state law, the only legal ways to euthanize stray dogs or cats are by gassing them with carbon monoxide or injecting them with sodium pentobarbital at an animal shelter.

The law also requires that sodium pentobarbital be injected by a person who has taken a training course. Violations are a Class B misdemeanor.

District Attorney Rene Pena said he had not heard of the incident before receiving a call Friday from a reporter.

City Manager Nick said he considers the matter closed.

"I worked on it in-house. I took action immediately," he said. "It won't happen in the future."[/quote]
This is just SICK :evil:

[Horsefeathers!]

[quote]"There was an incident. It only happened once that I know of and I have taken corrective action," said City Manager Dan Nick. "The individual is going to be going to classes with animal control and we'll be writing up a policy so nothing out of the ordinary happens again."

Nick declined to name the person who was disciplined or confirm details of the episode, which he described as "a freak incident, a one-time bad decision."[/quote]
I wonder what "corrective action" was taken other than "classes." Do you [b]really[/b] need classes to know that drowning dogs is not an acceptable form of euthanasia? "A one-time bad decision" is, IMO, demeaning and plays down the incident. It makes it sound like "whoopsies... sorry about that whole dog drowning thing... didn't realize it was inhumane."

I believe the people in charge, from the one(s) who ordered it and ok'd it to the one(s) who carried it out, should be charged with some form of cruelty, or at least removed from the positions they're in. At the very least, get them on the technicality that they broke the law by euthanizing illegally. If they can make a "one-time bad decision" like this, who knows what else they're capable of? I'd be less angered about it if I'd read that it was a single bullet between the eyes, but drowning, and in a sewer pit at that... I can't imagine what kind of "classes" they need to see the problem in that.

[imported_Irena]

thats the most sicking thing i ever heard :o

[between the wrinkles]

:o

[__crazy_canine__]

:o :evil: :cry:

HF said things perfectly.

[behle]

Extremely disturbing.... :(

How could anyone, anywhere think that's acceptable?

[courtnek]

:cry: :cry: :cry:

its making me SICK just thinking about it..drowning is a horrible death...drowning like that? Godspeed that they went quickly, without pain. and GOD FORBID I ever come across these people, for any reason....

maybe y'all better start saving bail money for me....

:evilbat: :evilbat:

[Hot1]

:evilbat:

Maybe these people need a good dousing in the sewer to straighten them up. Maybe even see the shrink instead of going to "animal control classes." Who needs to go to school to learn that drowning is cruelty to animals?

[Seijun]

Just said they were drowned at the sewage plant--doesn't necessarily mean raw sewage. If my facts are strait, sewage plants also have water which the dogs could have been drowned in. *shrugs* guess it doesn't really matter though, drowned is drowned.

~Seij