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Baitball Blogger

(46,750 posts) Sat Oct 11, 2014, 01:48 PM Oct 2014

Lake County animal services director fired after 20 pets euthanized in one day

The new director of the Lake County animal services unit was fired Friday after administrators found 20 pets were euthanized in one day.

Jacquelyn Johnston was hired by the sheriff's office as the head of animal services on Oct. 1, said Sgt. James Vachon, a sheriff's office spokesman.

On Thursday, 18 dogs and two cats were put down, Vachon said.

"To be fair some were indeed sick or injured but certainly not all," Vachon said.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-jacquelyn-johnston-fired-animal-services-20141011-story.html

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Lake County animal services director fired after 20 pets euthanized in one day (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Oct 2014 OP

She was hired Oct 1 and fired 9 days later. She looks very young to me. Here is Malraiders Oct 2014 #1

It takes some seriously twisted upbringing to reach this level of Baitball Blogger Oct 2014 #2

Shame on her shenmue Oct 2014 #3

I'll have to withhold judgment. lpbk2713 Oct 2014 #4

What I would have done was put out a call to the public for help. Baitball Blogger Oct 2014 #5

Even cops only kill 3 people a day. Of course, we don't know how many people valerief Oct 2014 #6

good Liberal_in_LA Oct 2014 #7

Malraiders

(444 posts)

1. She was hired Oct 1 and fired 9 days later. She looks very young to me. Here is

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 02:02 PM

Oct 2014

her picture:

Baitball Blogger

(46,750 posts)

2. It takes some seriously twisted upbringing to reach this level of

Reply to Malraiders (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 02:05 PM

Oct 2014

desensitization at her age. I know it can happen at a young age, because I even see it on my own street. The difference between right and wrong isn't the same for this generation as it was for ours.

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

3. Shame on her

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 02:19 PM

Oct 2014

lpbk2713

(42,763 posts)

4. I'll have to withhold judgment.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 02:19 PM

Oct 2014

She may have been between a rock and a hard place. There may not
have been enough money in the budget to adequately feed and care
for as many animals as she had. She may have made a hard decision
to make an early disposal of some animals who were not likely to be
adopted so that the others could be fed or given required medicine.

Baitball Blogger

(46,750 posts)

5. What I would have done was put out a call to the public for help.

Reply to lpbk2713 (Reply #4)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 02:28 PM

Oct 2014

I would have contacted private organizations to see if they could help with the adoptions. Then it wouldn't have been so hard to euthanize those that were unadoptable.

valerief

(53,235 posts)

6. Even cops only kill 3 people a day. Of course, we don't know how many people

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2014, 03:41 PM

Oct 2014

the cops legally steal from via civil forfeiture.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/another-much-higher-count-of-police-homicides/

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

7. good

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Sat Oct 11, 2014, 05:28 PM

Oct 2014

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