re: #57 Cato the Elder

Update: I went back down to 7-Eleven over an hour later and found “Bobby” still tied to the bike rack whilst the officer on duty idles his car to keep warm, waiting for Animal Control to show up and take charge. This dog, a friendly retriever mix, has now been out in the cold for at least six hours. I politely approached the patrol car and extracted a promise from the officer that he would call me when Animal Control shows up and give me the number (which of course he doesn’t have, or claims not to have) to call tomorrow so I can try to do something humane about this ridiculous bureaucratic bullshit. We’ll see. At any rate I’ll be on the phone with AC tomorrow morning whether or not the officer keeps his promise. I asked him for an ETA on Animal Control’s arrival. None forthcoming. So Officer Guy continues to sit there and idle his patrol car while people are getting robbed and killed, waiting for AC to show up and take away a friendly abandoned doggie who could now be snuggling in a warm bed with me and Haku.

This nonsensical Mongolian clusterfuck cannot be allowed to stand.

Not much gumshoe work required for this one. The dog was abandoned. Obviously since they left a note. So instead the police department is going to spend several man hour babysitting an abandoned dog until AC shows up at 11 AM. By that time I’m sure another 7 hour will have elapsed.

Meanwhile, it’s plain to see that the dog is abandoned. They give you no option to rescue the dog yourself but go as far as threatening you with arrest. In other words they’d take you to a jail cell immediately and more than likely take Haku immediately to the dog pound.

My guess is that it will probably cost the city a total of 500 dollars just to follow protocol which given the arrest threat I would also call this chickenshit bologna with an excuse to do some goldbricking.