When I saw the headline for this story in MCS I thought it was going to be a story about the 52 animals that were seized or relinquished (I'm still not sure which it was) and given away by CCAC.

It was, sort of, but mostly it was about how an entire department fell through the cracks. The director makes over $63K and year and the manager makes over $42K a year plus whatever the employees make and the whole department fell through the cracks. The two people running the place have been there for 19 years and 17 years respectively. How the heck does a place that spends that much money and has that much experience fall through the cracks? That sounds more like a huge sink hole to me!

Let's see, we didn't have an adoption fee schedule; aren't they supposed to be auctioned when they're seized and adopted when they are relinquished?

They had no monetary value anyway so they were given away; OK, where are they? Where did this one come from? Where has it been all this time? Was this animal seized or relinquished? If it has no moneitary value, why would you expect someone to bid on it?

The Sherriff's Officer gave a horse to a friend; perhaps because she knew what would happen to the animal if it was turned over to CCAC? What is the difference between what she did and what the director of CCAC did?

The director is a demanding manager but is overly sensitive and has a reprimand for poor customer service and high staff turnover. I know a name or two we used to use for bosses like that. Pick your own.

The manager is hard working but can't see when an animal needs a bath and is weak in supervisor skills.

"It's half-truths, misunderstandings by some overly emotional people," said Bill Bodenweber, the county's director of enforcement services.

Ok, so tell the whole truth. Explain it so that there can be no more misunderstandings. Yes, there may some over reacting by some very emotional people. I'm not one of them. There is still a lot about this whole mess that stinks.

I'm not sure I understand the reference to the lack of high speed lines for internet service (see another misunderstanding). What does that have to with anything? Dish TV and Direct TV both offer internet service. Are they in an undiscovered black hole out there that can't receive satellite transmissions?

"It is an agency that fell through the cracks over the years. They are definitely trying to fix things, draft policies," said Sheriff Rick Beseler. "They are making progress, moving forward so problems of the past won't be repeated in the future."

I don't know how else to tell you this Sheriff, but it's the same two people that have been there for the past 17/18 years. What makes you think that they are suddenly going to become stellar performers and work miracles by fixing the problems that they obviously created to begin with?

A real ringing endorsement for the more than $100K plus benefits these two cost us every year.