Gino's body was released to me today. Officer Lowengren from Show Low PD and his assistant were respectful of my feelings and of Gino's body, placing him in a burial box and loading him in the truck for me. I do appreciate their consideration under the circumstances. It has been a rough couple of weeks.
I took Gino to our vet's office to be picked up for cremation. I also wanted to run the micro chip scanner over him to make sure, once again, that his chip was in place and registering. Sure enough, it was there and even after two weeks of being frozen it was functioning as it was designed to. (See pictures below). Oh, if only those officers had done their jobs correctly!
Both the city and county received my certified requests on Oct 20th for all their records pertaining to Gino's impounding and killing. To date, only the City of Show Low has complied with our public records request. There is an obvious need for improvement in the city's animal control policies...I'm sure we will eventually find the same need at the county level as well. This fight won't be over until it is done.
The report written by the officer that actually killed Gino, Officer Brinkerhoff stated, in short, that the city pound was overcrowded and Brinkerhoff determined that most of the dogs impounded were county dogs. He called county animal control supervisor Bernard Huser over to point out which dogs to mark for death, and Gino was among those pointed out by Huser. Bear in mind, this is the man I reported to when Gino was missing...the man who told me neither he nor his "guys" had picked up any black labs in the few days after Gino went missing, and who said he would let me know if he came across any matching Gino's description. There he was, less than a week later, pointing out OUR black lab for death. And so it was, on October 12, 2011 Gino was killed by lethal injection.
I still have not seen anything in print after the interview with the White Mountain Independent reporter. Last I heard, they were still waiting to speak to Bernard Huser, the man responsible for ordering Gino's death. Whether we will ever see anything in print, or if the editor will just let the story die a silent death, is yet to be seen.
I took Gino to our vet's office to be picked up for cremation. I also wanted to run the micro chip scanner over him to make sure, once again, that his chip was in place and registering. Sure enough, it was there and even after two weeks of being frozen it was functioning as it was designed to. (See pictures below). Oh, if only those officers had done their jobs correctly!
Both the city and county received my certified requests on Oct 20th for all their records pertaining to Gino's impounding and killing. To date, only the City of Show Low has complied with our public records request. There is an obvious need for improvement in the city's animal control policies...I'm sure we will eventually find the same need at the county level as well. This fight won't be over until it is done.
The report written by the officer that actually killed Gino, Officer Brinkerhoff stated, in short, that the city pound was overcrowded and Brinkerhoff determined that most of the dogs impounded were county dogs. He called county animal control supervisor Bernard Huser over to point out which dogs to mark for death, and Gino was among those pointed out by Huser. Bear in mind, this is the man I reported to when Gino was missing...the man who told me neither he nor his "guys" had picked up any black labs in the few days after Gino went missing, and who said he would let me know if he came across any matching Gino's description. There he was, less than a week later, pointing out OUR black lab for death. And so it was, on October 12, 2011 Gino was killed by lethal injection.
I still have not seen anything in print after the interview with the White Mountain Independent reporter. Last I heard, they were still waiting to speak to Bernard Huser, the man responsible for ordering Gino's death. Whether we will ever see anything in print, or if the editor will just let the story die a silent death, is yet to be seen.
The microchip scanner reading I got today when I scanned Gino's deceased body using the ResQ brand scanner shown.
Scanner used at our vet's office
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