I'm sure y'all saw the article about the lab who stayed by the deceased lab, which was touching, of course. Well she's been reunited with her family.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/17/loyal-dog-who-stayed-by-dead-dog-side-reunited-with-family/Before Maggie's family claimed her Monday, the dog was spayed and microchipped.
Yep, they performed surgery on the dog.
And if performing surgery on the dog without the owner's consent wasn't bad enough:
The family will be issued citations for having an unregistered dog and allowing it to run loose and will have to pay nominal room and board costs, Reyes said, but the shelter did the surgery and implanted the microchip for free.
And apparently the brainwashing has been widely accepted.
The good Samaritan who had hoped to adopt Grace was notified, Reyes said, and his reaction was "understandably bittersweet."
"He had a lot of the same questions we did. How could they not have a license? Had Maggie had an ID tag or microchip, she could have been spayed and been back home last week," Reyes said.
The fact that the dog belongs to this family, not to them, is not even taken into consideration for a moment.
I looked up the whole licensing thing. In addition to making sure your dog is vaccinated, you must also purchase a license from your county of residence within 30 days of either moving to the county or getting the dog. This is the law. And according to the county website, this is why:
Found pets wearing licensing can be reunited quickly with their families. Your lost pet can be brought directly home without having to come through our animal shelter.
If your lost pet comes into our shelter wearing their license they will be taken care of for a longer period of time while our dedicated staff exhausts every option in an effort to reunite you. Your pet's license is proof of a current Rabies vaccination. If your pet is ever involved in a bite, vaccination & licensing may allow him to be quarantined at home instead of at our shelter or a veterinary facility.
Keeping your pets Rabies vaccination current protects your pet & your family's health!
License fees help to support the reunion of thousands of lost pets with their families as well as the adoption of pets to their new families. License fees also assist in supporting vital services such as spay/neuter programs and special medical needs for the animals that come in to our shelters.
So the 3-year rabies tag provided by my vet when Charlie was vaccinated isn't proof of rabies, the ID tag with my phone number isn't sufficient for getting him returned to me, and I'm supposed to pay for these nazis to spay and neuter other animals as they see fit.
Nice. Oh, and I'm also supposed to prove that he's been neutered. Really? You can't tell?
I think they're worried about the wrong things here. Clearly they need to be more concerned with the human population reproducing here.
