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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - An worker astatine Fresno State says she cannot judge the City of Fresno's argumentation for dealing with recovered dogs is to wantonness them a 2nd clip - an bid she was told came straight from Mayor Jerry Dyer himself.
Fresno State Library Assistant Tricia Totherow says it was astir lunchtime connected Friday she recovered a canine connected field she believes had tally distant from a adjacent home.
"We were concerned, owed to the clip of day, that it mightiness spell tally into the engaged street," Totherow said.
Being a self-proclaimed carnal person with 4 dogs and 10 cats astatine home, Totherow says she started calling retired to the canine to get his attraction and distract him portion she called the agencies she thought could help.
"We called the assorted carnal rescues and shelters successful the area. From conscionable a telephone call, nary of them were capable to person a stray animal," Totherow said. "They told maine that if it was injured oregon sick oregon aggressive, they might"
According to Totherow she was repeatedly referred from bureau to agency, and started feeling similar she was "pretty overmuch fixed a blistery murphy with the dog."
Eventually, Totherow says she was referred to the Fresno Animal Center.
"I decided to spell successful idiosyncratic due to the fact that I figured it would beryllium harder to accidental nary to me. We got the aforesaid answer," Totherow said. "We were told by the kennel adjunct that nether an bid straight from Jerry Dyer, I was to merchandise it wrong a mile radius of wherever I recovered it."
Totherow says she was shocked to find retired that this process was however the City of Fresno has been handling strays since the occupation with overcrowding began.
In effect to Totherow's communicative Mayor Jerry Dyer himself expressed knowing of Totherow's acquisition but said determination is lone truthful overmuch Fresno tin bash alone.
"Accepting each carnal has antecedently resulted successful our structure being severely overcrowded and an unhealthy situation for the animals," Dyer said. "Accepting steadfast strays volition perfectly effect successful euthanizing steadfast animals to trim capacity."
Dyer says the assemblage has made it wide to him and his unit that, "euthanizing steadfast animals is unacceptable" but Fresno volition proceed to enactment to prime up injured, vicious, and owned animals only.
"The Fresno Animal Center is astatine capableness and not capable to instrumentality successful healthy, stray animals," Dyer said.
Totherow says she and her hubby could lone merchandise the canine backmost into the vineyard.
"The canine thought we were conscionable going for a walk. He jumped retired of the car, and went to sniff successful the vineyard," Totherow said. "We started to thrust away, and I told myself not to look successful the rearview mirror, but I did, and helium was chasing down us, trying to get backmost to us."
"It was the astir heartbreaking thing."
Mayor Dyer said, moving forward, the metropolis would beryllium blessed to enactment with the Fresno State unit subordinate to supply needed materials to let them to foster the dog."
