What Are McKamey’s Euthanasia Protocols? - And Response
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Re: Botched Euthanization Incident Spurs Irate Caregivers To Resign, McKamey Officials To Fine-Tune Protocols To Prevent Recurrences
Being involved in all aspects of animal welfare my entire life and reading your article, while enlightening, it missed a very key point. Fine tuning “protocols” about how they euthanize animals is definitely troubling, but the real question is why was this dog euthanized?
You quoted a caretaker who said the dog was “happily playing outside in a yard next to her friends” when it was inhumanely drug off to be euthanized. The response by the director was “no protocols were violated because, on paper, the dog had a history of aggression.”