Just need to vent a little and will try to make a long story short.
Last week I had an email from the coordinator of our little rescue group about a pitbull mix puppy who was being mistreated in a local neighborhood.
The puppy was turned over to our local country shelter by its owner, who's daughter was abusing it. The family has a history of abusing animals. Because the puppy had some type of skin disease and because it was part pitbull, which are illegal to own in Cincinnati, it was euthanized almost immediately. While all this was happening our coordinator was trying to make contact with the shelter to save the puppy and turn it over to a no-kill
rescue group. Sadly, she was too late.
Our local county shelter is notorious for euthanizing animals quickly, along with being basically ineffective when it comes to investigating and prosecuting animal cruelty cases. I was so angry about the above situation that I fired off a pretty nasty email from work to the investigator handling the case. This morning my boss gave me a letter he had received from the director of the shelter saying he found the letter "offensive" given all the wonderful work they do in our community. My boss wasn't mad at all. He justed wanted to make sure I don't make it a practice of dealing with this kind of thing at work.
Granted I shouldn't have used my work email to contact the investigator.
But, what really makes me mad is that the shelter director was so unprofessional. Although the organization I work has a lot of influence in community affairs, our higher ups aren't interested in taking a position on how the shelter operates. If he thought I was going to get in some kind of trouble for writing the email, he was wrong. Why didn't he have the guts to contact me directly? It seems to me like he's just trying to cover his tracks, which he does a lot of. I'm definitely going to fire off another letter - just from home this time.
Thanks for letting me vent!
Last week I had an email from the coordinator of our little rescue group about a pitbull mix puppy who was being mistreated in a local neighborhood.
The puppy was turned over to our local country shelter by its owner, who's daughter was abusing it. The family has a history of abusing animals. Because the puppy had some type of skin disease and because it was part pitbull, which are illegal to own in Cincinnati, it was euthanized almost immediately. While all this was happening our coordinator was trying to make contact with the shelter to save the puppy and turn it over to a no-kill
rescue group. Sadly, she was too late.
Our local county shelter is notorious for euthanizing animals quickly, along with being basically ineffective when it comes to investigating and prosecuting animal cruelty cases. I was so angry about the above situation that I fired off a pretty nasty email from work to the investigator handling the case. This morning my boss gave me a letter he had received from the director of the shelter saying he found the letter "offensive" given all the wonderful work they do in our community. My boss wasn't mad at all. He justed wanted to make sure I don't make it a practice of dealing with this kind of thing at work.
Granted I shouldn't have used my work email to contact the investigator.
But, what really makes me mad is that the shelter director was so unprofessional. Although the organization I work has a lot of influence in community affairs, our higher ups aren't interested in taking a position on how the shelter operates. If he thought I was going to get in some kind of trouble for writing the email, he was wrong. Why didn't he have the guts to contact me directly? It seems to me like he's just trying to cover his tracks, which he does a lot of. I'm definitely going to fire off another letter - just from home this time.
Thanks for letting me vent!