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Humane Society responds to attack on dog

Posted by Mark Chapman on March 3rd, 2010 at 1:56 pm

Letter to the Editor

Let­ter to the Editor

Response to Engle­wood Edge arti­cle: “Man Whose Dog was Burned by Bomb Wants ‘Punks’ Brought to Justice”

We at Sun­coast Humane Soci­ety were sad­dened to read your Engle­wood Edge.com arti­cle regard­ing the alleged attack on Daniel Thoms and his dog Char­lie Brown. Vio­lence towards peo­ple or ani­mals should never be con­doned. This vio­lent act had to be very trau­matic for Char­lie Brown and his owner.

In your arti­cle, I note your state­ment that Mr. Thoms won­dered why Sun­coast Humane Soci­ety had not got­ten involved because of the cru­elty to animal’s case. We at Sun­coast Humane Soci­ety had no knowl­edge of this inci­dent until read­ing your arti­cle this morn­ing. Although our board, staff and vol­un­teers are extremely con­cerned over reports of cru­elty to ani­mals, we have no author­ity to actu­ally inves­ti­gate cru­elty cases in any of the coun­ties we serve.

The inves­ti­ga­tion of reported ani­mal cru­elty is nor­mally placed under the author­ity of the local ani­mal ser­vices and con­trol which work within law enforce­ment divi­sions. This said, if suf­fi­cient evi­dence exists to charge the sus­pects, we do urge the Sara­sota Sher­iffs Depart­ment to con­sider ani­mal cru­elty charges in addi­tion to added charges which deal with these vio­lent acts.

Now that we are aware of the injuries to Char­lie Brown, we would, nat­u­rally wel­come Mr. Thoms to con­tact us regard­ing his con­di­tion. If needed, we will offer to have our vet­eri­nar­ian exam­ine Char­lie Brown. We at Sun­coast Humane Soci­ety wish him a speedy recov­ery with no sub­se­quent effects.

Phil Sny­der

Exec­u­tive Director

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