Clay Co Animal Control one of many reasons why changes are needed

Mr. Bill

I am very happy to hear that you got your beloved "Katie" back and she lived to the ripe old age of 14.

I don't understand how if your dad was there at CCAC every other day how he could not have not seen her. But I guess with the amount of animals there if you were not being meticulous in your search how this could happen. Who knows maybe she arrived at an off day when he did not go in to check.

The ladies at the front desk at CCAC cannot possibly know all the animals that are housed out back for they do not intake the animals themselves and it would take hours to go through all the files. The most expedicous way of finding ones pet is to escorted back to ID your pet.

With all do respect if the only thing you could come with for "Katies" condition is that the folks at CCAC were beating and kicking her to me is misleading and pure speculation. Employees at CCAC do not kick and beat any animal at CCAC from the most loving dog like your "Katie" to the most aggressive whacked out Pitbull. If any employee was discovered doing that they would no longer be an employee.

While your beloved AKC registered show dog "Katie" was loose and running uncontained many things could have happened to her. My guess would be that any injuries she may have incurred happened while she was running loose.

That being said I am very happy you got her back and that she lived a long healthy life.

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TruthHurts

I think there are some points missing.

Went to the CCAC every other day.

The dog was there for almost a week.

Would not let the father go back and look for the dog. Why is that?

Injuries may have incurred while running loose. Maybe, but you are saying if an animal  is sick or injured after arriving at the CCAC that the animal is just put in a cage and left there without any medical attention? As stated by Bill the leg was badly infected. So i am to assume that the dog got no medical attention.

 As for you statement that it would take hours to go through the files to see if they had a an animal in the back. I am sorry that that according to you that the CCAC can not waste time looking through the paper work for a citizen of Clay County. 

Having said all that. I usually keep out of this CCAC blogging mess as I have no ax t grind and have not had any contact with the CCAC except to call to have strays picked up. Which they did 2 times. On 2 different occasions, on the same day I called.

 WW

Those who give up freedom for security have neither.

WW

Too much assuming.

CCAC does have meds on site. The dog may very well have been on meds we don't know. Mr. Bill does not make any mention of it. This dog may have also seen a vet that CCAC had taken the dog to but this is also not mentioned We do not know. This dog could have been brought into CCAC that very afternoon. We do not know.

My point is that there are way too many variables open for speculation here. You just can't make the jump that this dogs condition is because of CCAC staff beating and kicking it, thats just not fair.

I wonder if a private citizen found this dog, then after noticing the flyers called the owner and when the owner came to pick up their dog if the owner would make the same assumptions of the good citizen just trying to help out.

When folks go to CCAC to look for their dog they get escorted back to find them. It is the most time effective and accurate way to locate the dog. Why spend hours looking through paperwork when you can just walk back and find out in 10 or 20 minutes?

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Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle

My cat Fluffy went missing. I waited until 3 days to be sure. I went down to CCAC to see if they had pickup Fluffy. When I got there they were really busy. I took a number and had a seat. It wasn't very long before a nice lady dressed in scrubs, came and took me on the tour of where they keep the cats. She let me look at all the cats they had at the time. My poor Fluffy wasn't among them. I was really overwelmed at the amount of cats they did have. They even had a mama cat with brand new babies. 

I also went to Safe Animal on 220. but Fluffy wasn't there either.

Fluffy did finally come home, 6 days after going missing. He had gotten into a fight, and was nursing a wound on his flanks. By the time he got up the energy to come home, the wound was absesed and I took him to Doctors' Inlet Animal Hospital. The vet lady said if he hadn't come home when he did the infection would have probally have killed him that day. The wound smelled of dead flesh.

They kept him at the vet's two days, when we got to bring him home, I had to give him all kinds of medicine, clean, irigate his wounds and nurse him back to health.

Today he is happy(if a cat can be happy) and healthy.

I was treated very well at CCAC.  Although they didn't have Fluffy, they were helpful and forthcoming with info on the cats they did have. This all took place last September 07 

The CCAC worker stated the dog had been there a week.

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I noticed in your story that your dog lived to be 14. So when did this incident happen? Sounds like it happened a while back.  

SouthernTip AKA JBOD

Then this person (dad) should have seen it then.

I am sure they were not hiding it, everything is in the open.

There are no secret hide aways at CCAC were they are keeping owners from getting their pets. Thats my point there are a lot of missing or mistated facts here.

The staff there want owners to reclaim their pets. When folks come to get their pets thats one less animal they have to clean up after.

There is much more to this story and I don't think it would be fair to jump to the conclusion that a sinister wrong doing was happening or that the staff was beating and kicking this dog.

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I agree there is probably no sinister plot here either. I will stand by the statement that's incompetence is what rules the day. If Bill had his dog and it was in the kind of shape he describes. If animal control would have found him he would have been arrested for animal cruelty for not getting proper care. I don't care how the dog got injured. If you refuse to get care for an animal that is cruelty. What makes animal control exempt?

I really don't want to get in the middle of another CCAC fight. But I would like to say that when one of my wife;s cats went missing, never to return, I visited CCAC every Friday all summer long for about ten weeks total. The staff were very kind and escorted me through thefacility to search for Max. Max never came home but the people at CCAC were very kind to me. Whoever Don "The Noodle" Rammon is he is not telling the way it is about the CCAC employees.

Angela;

I can't believe that you the queen of 'show me proof' is buying this story without backup evidence.

1. The dog was 7 and lived to be 14. It had to be at least 7 years ago. It might have been a lot longer than that.

2. We could only come up with someone at CCAC did this. Really?

3. The nearly lifeless dog was there for a week? I thought animals were put down after 3 days but I could be wrrong.

Mike Heemer

I didn't say the story was true or not. I have no reason to call this person a liar. I said if the animal was found in that shape and had not been given proper care. That should be considered animal cruelty if it had been there for a week in that condition. If it was not in the condition when it was taken there or picked up. Then something happened to it after it got there. That should be cruelty too.

The paperwork in animal control is in such bad shape. The family is lucky it didn't get put down after 3 days. That's the reason some get put down that shouldn't. But this story doesn't suprise me.

I have no reason to call this person a liar. 

Seems to be a double standard here. You didn't seem to have any problem calling the families of the young girls that accused Adam Taylor of abuse liars.

Nor did you have a problem insisting on proof and impugning their character for not supplying evidence to your satisfaction.

Would that have anything to do with who and what was involved?

Mike Heemer

Go back and review what I said and show me a statement where I called those girls a liar.

The only statement I made was girls lie, boys lie and adults lie. That was not specific to that case but a generality. People lie and it doesn't matter what the subject is about they can lie. People do it everyday.

This guy writing this blog can lie too. I didn't comment on the truth of his story. Except to say if he had an animal and did not care for it. Then that would be considered animal cruelty by law. If animal control had an animal and did not give it proper care that should be considered animal cruelty by law. What makes them exempt?

Reported in the MCS

Gail Flakes

Shelter manager

Hired 1991

Annual salary - $42,734

Certified by Florida Animal Control Association in 1994

Strengths - dependable, faithful, hard-working, never sick or takes vacation

Weaknesses - not noticing when animals need baths or nails trimmed, supervisor skills

Reprimands - 2006 for putting wrong dog to sleep and for reporting drugs missing that weren't

I said the story didn't surprise me.

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