North Carolina County Euthanizes Family’s Dog By Mistake
“Due to the overwhelming number of animals coming in and a limited staff, especially on weekends, this dog was crisscrossed with another dog scheduled to be euthanized that probably looked similar,” Assistant Davidson County Manager Casey Smith said, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. “It was an unfortunate mistake.”
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The county had ordered Blaze quarantined at the shelter for 10 days after nipping a 6-year-old boy, the paper reported. The quarantine began June 4.
Varker said Blaze didn’t mean to bite the boy who was his cousin’s son. He said the boy wasn’t seriously injured.
“He was a puppy, pretty rambunctious, but not a dangerous dog at all,” said Varker the father of three boys ages 5, 8 and 10.
“Our kids, they don’t understand how or why it happened,” he said. “Neither do we, but we can handle it better. They’re really broken up.”
The county is now considering what the shelter can do to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen again, the paper reported.
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