TX:City employee disciplined for ordering drowning of stray dogs

[rainbow4321]

"Disciplined"?? This guy needed to be fired...and have animal abuse charges filed!

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8BMFM1G0.html


A South Texas public works supervisor has been disciplined for ordering city employees to drown six stray dogs at the city sewer plant to save money.

Jourdanton City Councilman Darrell Richter said the workers took the dogs from the pound to the sewer plant and dropped their cages into the water.

Texas law says stray dogs and cats can only be euthanized by gassing them with carbon monoxide or injecting them with sodium pentobarbital at an animal shelter.

City Manager Dan Nick said the supervisor would have to attend classes with animal control. He said city officials were drafting a policy to prevent similar future incidents. "It only happened once that I know of and I have taken corrective action," Nick said, describing the drownings as "a freak incident, a one-time bad decision."

[roguevalley]

1. JESUS!

[kestrel91316]

2. Texas?? Gee, why does this not surprise me?

[Longhorn]

3. Please don't blame Texas!

My dog accidentally drowned yesterday -- I can't even read about what this idiot did to those dogs. But there are idiots everywhere. Unfortunately, the king of the idiots is president right now but there are many of us here who detest Bush and who are disgusted and revolted by the actions of this monster who drowned the dogs.

[kestrel91316]

4. Sweetie, I am not blaming all Texans .......................

just the RW fascist ignorant redneck ones who seem to be in the news so much.

Sorry about your puppydog. (hug - smilie window not coming up)

[regnaD kciN]

5. I should probably be diplomatic...

...and not say what sort of "discipline" I am imagining at this moment.

:grr:

[rainbow4321]

9. I just emailed PETA...

To see if they could put pressure on the city to do more than send the guy "to class" and write a new city "policy" over the dogs getting murdered. The city official saying it "only happened once that I know of..." is a crappy defense. This guy, IMHO, needs to be fired and have some sort of charges brought against him..even if it "only" results in a bunch of community hours to be served...

If they have to, investigate the actual shelter to see if this HAS occurred before and the act just happened to get exposed this time around.

I recently adopted a dog from a city animal shelter (and one from a rescue group). I can not imagine them going thru something like that!!!



http://www.peta.org/about/contact.asp

[ehrnst]

6. That's not a "bad" decision - it's a sadistic one.

I want to know what that "corrective" action was.:mad:

[ernstbass]

7. Hope the discipline involves drowning

or at least a water torture

[superconnected]

8. Didn't something in their souls SCREAM when they were killing the animals

How do they sleep at night?

May their loved ones understand fully what kind of monsters they are.

May karmic retribution be swift and just.

[regnaD kciN]

10. Some people have just totally desenistized themselves...

...from the suffering of non-humans.

They've probably been raised to believe that "they're all just dumb animals." I've even heard some people claim that animals can't feel anything, :crazy: and therefore it doesn't matter what is done to them.

OTOH, it's wise to remember that, when one mistreats an animal, it can become easier to do the same to humans. I wonder if the guards and officers in the Nazi death camps rationalized it the same way -- they were just carrying out the unpleasant but necessary task of "cleaning up the place"...?