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Citizen Concerned With Animal Control Situation

Citizen Concerned With Animal Control Situation
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By West Kentucky Star Staff
Apr. 20, 2018 | PADUCAH, KY
By West Kentucky Star Staff Apr. 20, 2018 | 07:54 PM | PADUCAH, KY
A McCracken County dog owner has taken to Facebook to explain a situation with a dog that had gotten loose.

According to Facebook posts, the citizen states that her dog got out of her yard on April 9th. She made calls to McCracken County Animal Control and the McCracken County Humane Society, to report the dog as lost. Neither told her that they had seen the dog.

On April 11th, she found out that one of the McCracken County Animal Control officers had picked her dog up after seeing it running in Lone Oak Road. The officer reportedly said he could not take the dog to the McCracken County Humane Society, so he dropped it off in the Glenn Street neighborhood.

She posted pictures of the dog on Facebook, offering a reward for the dog's safe return, and on April 13th, a resident on Shawnee Lane, in the Cherokee neighborhood, contacted her to let her know she had the dog. This resident stated they saw the dog near Lone Oak Road and were able to rescue it. They had seen the post on Facebook and realized that this was the lost dog. As a result, she paid the resident the reward, and got her dog back.

West Kentucky Star confirmed with McCracken County Animal Control that this incident did, in fact, take place. Director Aaron Hudson said that this is not normal and was an isolated incident. He said the officer involved is no longer employed there.

Hudson went on to say that the policy of McCracken County Animal Control is to return an animal to the owner, if they can determine who that is, or to take the animal to the McCracken County Humane Society.

When asked about the policy of the McCracken County Humane Society with accepting animals from McCracken County Animal Control, Executive Director Terry Vannerson said that they will always take animals from them, even if they are at capacity. 

Vannerson said although the McCracken County Humane Society had nothing to do with this incident, she was aware of it, and felt extremely bad that such a thing had happened. As a result, the Humane Society provided the dog with a microchip at no charge.



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