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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of y’all can’t read. The shelter is a totally different thing than the rescue where she got the dog. Anyways, she sucks and hope she doesn’t get the dog back. [/quote]

She signed paperwork to be euthanized.  That is what the shelter said they'd do.  Instead they choose not to and handed the dog back to the rescue to resell.  The shelter should have contacted her and told her and said what would you like us to do we can save your dog.  Both acted unethically.  [/quote]

The paperwork said the shelter would treat and adopt out the dog if the shelter deemed that appropriate (source: Washington Post). She wasn't contacted because she gave up the dog. It's pretty reasonable for them to assume she'd taken all the vetrinary steps she was willing to. The fact her vets (two vets?) were wrong is terrible and if anything, that is the story - not the shelter/rescue.[/quote]

She did not exactly give up the dog.  She went to two vets who diagnosed the dog with a serious issue and either an expensive surgery and who knows if it would help or to euthanize.  She didn't know what to do, didn't have the money for the surgery (which sounds like it was wrong) and brought it to the shelter for advice/euthanized.  When they choose to have the vet look at the dog, which was appropriate as that vet was probably the one euthanizing, the vet said something else, cheaper surgery and dog was ok.  They should have [b]contacted the owner[/b] immediately when they said the dog didn't need to be euthanized as that was what she agreed/signed for.[/quote]

That's the problem right there. [b]She gave the dog up and signed him over to the MCSPcA shelter. When she did that she was NO LONGER the owner and had NO rights to the dog. When she signed the paperwork to give him to MCSPCA she checked the box stating that they would evaluate him and only euthanized IF necessary. She brought him there to be killed, NOT for advice. They never told her "we'll look him over and call you if we find a fixable diagnosis". She gave up on the dog and gave up her rights to him. [/b]

Now I do agree that it is unfortunate that the initial vets she visited did not properly diagnose or give her a good outlook and, as a previous poster noted, that is the real story here. But instead of that being the story new organization have thrown the rescue under the bus when all they did was the opposite of this woman- not give up on him and spending thousands to save him and give him a good quality of life. Now they are facing criticism from a bunch of keyboard warriors, many of whom lack reading comprehension skills,  who read one story, and one side of the story at that, and want to persecute them in the court of public opinion. They do incredible work and work insanely hard to save the lives of dogs and cats.

This woman does not deserve to get this dog back.

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The bolded is both factual, and an utterly garbage policy. If an animal is brought in for euthanasia, it should be put down, and the owner allowed to stay with the animal. If an animal is surrendered, the rescue should make that clear up front[b] "If you sign this, the dog is no longer your dog, and the shelter will make whatever decisions we deem fit from this point forward, including rehoming, foster, euthanasia..."[/b]

But the whole "maybe we will, maybe we won't" serves no one. Not the owner, not the shelter, not the dog.

FWIW, I was at HRA over the weekend and someone was there to put their dog down. They were allowed to stay with their dog to the end. Some places do it better than others.[/quote]

I volunteer for a rescue. The bolded is essentially verbatim what is in our owner surrender contracts. [/quote]

She went to the county to get the dog euthanized, not a rescue.  You don't know what she signed.  This is the county:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/animalservices/Ownerresources/euthanasia.html[/quote]

We do know what she signed because the shelter had stated what she signed and that included a clause that they can choose not to euthanize if they find it is not necessary. Again, she gave up her rights to make any more medical decision on his behalf when she signed off and left him at the shelter. If she felt so strongly that he need to be euthanized immediately she should have paid her vet to do so and been by his side. [/quote]

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