I made the decision to euthanize Sampson (A501475, was in kennel 3) this evening because he jumped the exercise pen fence and attacked another dog who was bieng walked back to his kennel after surgery. It took 4 staff members 5 minutes and many desperate efforts to get Sampson to let go of the other dogs neck and head. The victim dog went home with his adopter shortly after with treatable injuries, but due to the severity and tenacity of the attack, I removed Sampson and requested that he be euthanized.
I have to note this one because staff did recently promise to give us a week's notice before euthanizing a dog. However, after the incident with Derby did not produce any options, they probably thought that this would be the most humane decision. There's certainly no point in putting a dog in a stray kennel, where no one will interact with him, if he's going to be euthanized anyway in a few days.
It's still a little bothersome to have received no other explanation for why they didn't give us the week's notice after all of the trust issues were discussed so vehemently the other night. Anyway, there could be a really good reason for it and I don't plan to challenge any of it, I just thought I should document it.
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