It was a disappointing weekend on Stribling Shoals. I get so hopeful, and I think I am going to just go pick my Hershey up, and then he is not there. My granddaughter and I did a couple of stakeouts in the area that a similar dog was reported. We thought we might have spotted the dog, but I couldnt be sure of the color. It was dark and it was like a shadow. That animal never came back. We were in the area yesterday with some volunteers who came to help search. It was beautiful and the dogs and cats were out enjoying the weather. Hershey was not among them. Animal Control talked to the man who took Hershey and gave him to someone else. His story was consistent except he added another characteristic. The man was hard of hearing. He had not said that before. She said he looked her right in the eyes and was sincere. She believes his story. He directed her to a white mobile home, and he volunteered to take her there...which he would not do for me. The mobile home she found using his instructions appeared vacant. There is one mobile home up there that appears vacant that is not. I have talked to the owner, a truck driver. He was not in town at the week Hershey was lost. I just happened to drive by and see him because I thought the home was vacant. He has lived up there his whole life. He has a little poodle with a mohawk hair cut. I held his little put and he gave me good advice on where to put posters for maximum exposure. All the other vacant looking mobile homes are in fact vacant. The consensus is that the truth is being withheld. Everyone says this man would not hurt a dog. Hershey was blind and deaf. If this man put him out, that would be animal cruelty. The story of giving him to someone on Stribling Shoals who lives in an old white trailer with a built on porch, in a field, with overgrown bushes, to an old man who is hard of hearing has not panned out. No one in the area has any idea who or what he could be talking about. So HE is the only one who truly knows what happened to Hershey. As far as Animal Control is concerned, that system is broken. As soon as the AC officer got a call from an officer with the Sheriffs Department, they dropped me like a hot potato. Inside of ten minutes they were going to show me the mobile home, possibly even send an officer to take me there to not being able to talk to me because it became a sheriffs investigation. The funny thing is, I had not asked the sheriff to investigate yet. I was waiting to see what Animal Control could do. But when these two departments cannot function together as a team to solve a case, there is definitely a problem that needs to be solved. How many animals and owners are let down by this broken system? I am sure I am not the only one.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:54:16 +0000
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