[nagdu] Article: Blind womans HEALTHY guide dog is killed andburied alongside her in fulfilment of her dying wish

[daniel]

wow, I'm sorry if I offend anyone by saying this, but that is horrible. 
Killing such a great animal just because someone wants them in there coffin?
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Subject: [nagdu] Article: Blind womans HEALTHY guide dog is killed andburied 
alongside her in fulfilment of her dying wish


> Blind womans HEALTHY guide dog is killed and buried alongside her in 
> fulfilment of her dying wish
> The family of a blind woman who killed her healthy guide dog so it could 
> be buried alongside her have suffered a hate campaign and received death 
> threats, it was revealed today.
> Shelia Stadler, 68, from Terre Haute, Indiana, died of cancer with her 
> five-year-old guide dog Toffee by her side last month.
> A few days later later her son Andy had the healthy dog put down so it 
> could placed in Mrs Stadler's coffin to fulfil her dying wish.
> But the controversial decision to destroy the dog has provoked a huge 
> backlash in the town with Mrs Stadler's son receiving death threats - and 
> even suffering abuse from members of his own family.
> Heartbroken: Sheila Stadle apparently couldn't bear to part with her guide 
> dog when she died
> Faithful companion: Healthy five-year old Toffee was apparently put to 
> sleep and buried at the request of his owner (file picture)
> 'How could they do it?' Gregory Reilly from the Honey Creek Animal 
> Hospital was wrongly implicated as having put the dog down, and believes 
> the decision to do so was questionable
> Gregory Reilly, a veterinary assistant with the local Honey Creek Animal 
> Hospital, said: 'It got totally out of control. The neighborhood was 
> really angry. People were saying they should burn in hell. Terrible things 
> were said.
> 'Mr Stadler told me he had received death threats and a member of his own 
> family wrote on a Facebook page that she could not believe he had done 
> it.'
> Mr Reilly was also caught up in the furore after being blamed wrongly for 
> putting Toffee down.
> He said: 'We would never euthanise a dog - we simply find them a new home. 
> All I did was try to find out whether what the Stadler's did was legal.
> 'It seems very morbid to me but unfortunately as the dog was their 
> property, it was perfectly legal.'
> Mrs Stadler died on March 8, and had expressed a wish to her family that 
> she should be buried with her beloved labrador Toffee.
> Her son Andrew, a tax accountant, then carried out her instructions after 
> saying the dog had shown signs of mourning and 'wandered aimlessly' in the 
> days after Mrs Stadler died.
> It is not known when Toffee was euthanized but the story first emerged on 
> WTHITV, which stated: 'Shelia Stadler, 68, of Brazil, died March 8 at home 
> with her service animal, Toffee, at her side.
> 'Days later, the Stadler family had Toffee, a perfectly healthy 5-year-old 
> dog, euthanized, displayed in the coffin at Shelia's visitation, and 
> buried with her in Summit Lawn Cemetery right outside Brazil.'
> In mourning: DeBaun Funeral Homes and Crematory's obituary said that 
> Toffee had been Sheila's 'constant companion for five years'
> It cited an obituary saying: 'She loved Toffee, her seeing-eye dog and 
> constant companion for five years.'
> But when the report provoked a storm of criticism against Mrs Stadler's 
> family, station boss Todd Webber withdrew the story from the website and 
> refused to comment on the reasons why.
> Mr Reilly said: 'The family and the station have taken a lot of heat on 
> this. There was a Facebook page with so much criticism on that they had to 
> take it down.'
> The Dogs Trust said:  'There is never any reason to put a healthy dog to 
> sleep when it could be happily rehomed.
> 'We hope that this sad story could never be repeated in the UK.
> Guide Dogs UK also made it clear that this case was unacceptable.
> Oliver Barton, regional director, said: 'We would never condone this. 
> Whatever happens, we would make sure that the dog was happy and cared for'
> Paying tribute to Mrs Stadler, the DeBaun Funeral Home refused to comment 
> on its involvement in displaying the euthanized dog but said that she had 
> been a 'dedicated homemaker' whose favourite book was the Bible.
> Mrs Stadler is not the only owner to request such a burial in recent 
> years.
> NBC reported that Tom Tom, a healthy 2-year-old Yorkshire terrier was put 
> down so that he could be buried with his owner, Donald Ellis from 
> Arkansas.
> His sister said that she had 'a lot of grief for doing this, but it's what 
> my brother wanted.'
> Emily Kinney from Dallas, Texas told NBC that her grandmother asked for 
> her Shih-tzu Sam to be buried in her coffin. She said that 'she wanted her 
> best friend with her'.
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