Abused dogs deserve help – not death
Three dogs in Tulsa will probably die because of what their owners trained them to do.
Officials at the Tulsa County Sheriff’s office are recommending three dogs owned by Donald Seigfried and Diane Whalen be euthanized because they are aggressive. Law officers found dozens of homemade movies of a woman performing sex acts with dogs. They confiscated the tapes and the three dogs in the home. Seigfried and Whalen face felony charges of crimes against nature in connection with the tapes. So now law enforcement says the dogs are too aggressive and must be killed.
That is offensive – almost as offensive as the crimes Seigfried and Whalen are accused of committing.
Dogs – like people – can overcome trauma. They can be rehabilitated, trained and given a second chance at life. The perfect example: the animals rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting ring. Of the 49 dogs saved, only one was put down because it was too aggressive. Those dogs were trained to bite, fight and kill. In the year since they were saved, they’re being rehabilitated and adopted throughout the country. One is a therapy dog in California. Some are living with other dogs at a sanctuary in Utah.
Tulsa officials have a chance to make things right.
They should find a reputable rescue organization willing to work with these pups. The situation is horrible for everyone involved. We don’t like to think about animals being abused, and this issue in particular is difficult to stomach. But now is the time to make the tough choice: fix the problem. Don’t kill these dogs because of what they were trained to do.
- Staff Writer Carrie Coppernoll
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I have differences of opinion when it comes to animals vs humans (ask my friends). I see no problem whatsoever with euthanizing these dogs. If they show some agression now, who can really say, or prove, that they won’t become more agressive in the future now that they are away from their own habitat? I believe animals have no spirit (mind, will and emotions) like humans.
What are the “authorities” worried about, the dogs might hump somebody’s leg or something? Do they think they might be capable of raping someone? Perhaps these authorities believe that the “crime against nature” whatever that is, was committed by the dogs, and having participated in such a disgusting, evil, and unspeakably perverse act, they have no rightful place upon this earth. Get thee behind me devil dog! Where’s PETA when you need ‘em?
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i think that all that is just wrong to do that to a animal they have fellings just like we do so does that mean we are going to do this to each other? that is why i am going to be a vet to help animals not kill them animal have been on this earth longer then we have. dogs should get the same respect that we do >that is wut i think on the matter and i will alway think that but that i sjust one person it tacks a lot me then just one to save animals and one thing one person can mack a differtens but it tacks a hole lot more to keep it going and that is just a god given talent to me if you can start something like that and i give thanks to who ever started the aspca because you have now saved millons of animals froming dieing
Yeah, where are the ASPCA and HSUS when you need them???!!!! I say if you are in Tulsa go give them grief at the sheriffs office! There probably are others there already!
If we will kill dogs, that are actually the victims here, then we should not have a problem killing people that are guilty of rape and molestation or any sex crime!