Texas Municipal Worker Ordered Stray Dogs Drowned

The Indy Channel ^ | July 31, 2005 | A.P.

[Abathar]

JOURDANTON, Texas -- Some city officials in Jourdanton, Texas, are outraged that a public works supervisor ordered employees to drown six stray dogs at the city sewer plant, rather than having the animals properly euthanized.

For punishment, the supervisor was ordered to attend classes with animal control officers.

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

A child saw the drownings and told his mother, who complained.

Richter told the San Antonio Express-News that he's disgusted by the incident and upset with the supervisor getting "a little slap on the hand." He said a crime has been committed and should be dealt with in a more serious manner.

[mercy]

You are an idiot. Torturing animals under color of authority is indeed a crime and is indeed the city's business.

This guy is probably another BTK killer flying under the radar. Not only would I prosecute him on six separate counts I would search his home and car as well as his phone records.

[daybreakcoming]

The cost of the actual euthanization is around $5 or 6. The cost of keeping a dog the required length of time in the shelter can run around $100. Obviously the public works supervisor was trying to save the town some money.
/SARC
Jourdanton should hang it's head in shame until it takes more action than a required class. I cannot even imagine this horrific scene.

[ncountylee]

I complete my cats unfinished projects as quickly as possible. Don't let it suffer.

[BJungNan]

I don't think "limited government" should require turning a blind eye to instances of cruelty.

It has been doing it for a long time. Sitting by while legs and arms are ripped off or brains are sucked out.

[BJungNan]

I complete my cats unfinished projects as quickly as possible. Don't let it suffer.

Am I allowed to drown it? Can I hit it over the head with a shovel? What does the law say?

[porkchops 4 mahound]

I think that in the nineteenth century before the Humane Society got it changed, that NY city had a big cage on skids that it filled with stray dogs during the day and then they put that cage into the river at night.

I make no excuses here.

I love dogs.

But historical perspective always helps.

[doc30]

Government shouldn't even be sticking its nose into the regulation of "animal cruelty". It is yet another blow to the ideal of limited government.

Do you have any respect for other living things? To consider cruelty and torture something that should not be prevented by law is amazingly sick. I sincerely hope you do not own any pets. It sounds like you desire the 'right' to harm other things in any way you desire. That goes beyond libertarian and right into derranged. I fear for an animal's safety near you. And to think that you also believe that it's OK, or even proper, for children to witness such depravity!

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Don't you have any big hungry snakes?

That way would be "organic".

[Andy'smom]

I can't believe this thread. I didn't know we had such cruel people on this site.

[DumpsterDiver]

... a public works supervisor ordered employees to drown six stray dogs at the city sewer plant, rather than having the animals properly euthanized.

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

What's up with that, just following orders?

For punishment, the supervisor was ordered to attend classes with animal control officers.

I hope those animal control officers are not the same workers who drowned the dogs.

IMO, they all should be fired.

[MilspecRob]

I can't believe this thread. I didn't know we had such cruel people on this site.

I agree Andy.. I almost had to pop a nitro under my tongue after reading some of the knuckle dragging posts on this thread.

[rock58seg]

Folks, Jourdanton is a small town, very small town. I doubt whether they have enough of an animal control problem for a full time control officer. Usually the surrounding farmers don't have a use for animal control. They take care of their own problems with strays. So it becomes an extra duty for someone from public works.

One of the people that fixes potholes, repair main breaks, picks up trash in the parks. Really does actually work for a living, despite what we sometimes think of municipal workers. And I am sure he is well worth the slightly more than minimum wage he is probably paid.

Just doing those jobs that we don't want to, because it's too hot, too cold, too muddy, too hard, too low wage, not very good benefits.

Somebody who grew up on a farm, where strays (Usually abandoned by bleeding hearts from the city.)were shot, or drowned, or had their heads chopped off. Whatever got the job done. Same result. dead you know.

Better he had let them starve and dehydrate. That, I have been told, by many here, is very euphoric death.

[rock58seg]

Place a newspaper on the floor. Place the trap, rat and all on the newspaper. Put on a pair of hiking boots. Now stomp on the rat and crush it's f'ing head. Roll everything up in the newspaper and throw it in the garbage.

On general principal, throw the rest of the NY times out also.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Just guessing that you have never lived on a farm?

Just guessing that you have never worked in one of those places where they turn animals into portions of "food" either probably?

Jes guessing that the working deck of a commercial fishing boat has not had to bear your weight?

What this man did was callous and cruel.

But life is often callous and cruel.

Would you crucify this fool over these dogs with the unspeakable acts people do to people every frikkin day as background? As perhaps "perspective"?

If so, that would seem unrealistic in an infantile sort of way and pure unadulterated "PC" BS nonsense to me.

(I remember after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Feds and the State of Alaska and the NGOs air lifted deer who had eaten "contaminated" seaweed. These several DEERS were given the best care, and nurtured back to health then air lifted again back to be released.

None of this was FREE. It took money from our budgets, lots of money.

In the same exact time frame a street person froze to death on a grate in downtown Anchortown. No worries, he was just a street drunk afterall.

Do you see the frikkin absurdity of this?)

[Madame Dufarge]

If they were in the pound, how would they starve and dehydrate?

[rock58seg]

By withholding food and water as was done with Teri Schiavo.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Did not get this from a "Petaperson>" The research I have seen is reliable and there is a correlation. You can also ask law enforcement officials who do agree and are grateful for the animal cruelty laws. This isn't pseudo-logic and is an important tool in at minimum, doing assessments or interventions of animal cruelty charges.

Your milk analogy is ludicrous.

[deport]

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.

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Do you have a link to that law?.... I'd like to bookmark it...

thanks

[rock58seg]

See! that's what you get for using logic.

[BykrBayb]

Another article you don't want to read. But I insist.