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

Tue Apr 9 15:36:11 UTC 2013

iT JUST A DEMENSTRATION OF HOW SELFISH FOLKS CAN BE UNDER THE GUISE OF lOVE!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Ray" <cindyray at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Article: Blind womans HEALTHY guide dog 
iskilledandburied alongside her in fulfilment of her dying wish


> Sure it was their decision. But here's the deal. The dog could have no say 
> in it; for some it would be like killing your child and having it buried 
> with you, and that helplessness would be the same factor. The dog could 
> have been given a new home where it would have thrived. The woman, at 
> least as we know it, would have no further need of the dog, so why should 
> it honestly matter to her that the dog be taken out of its life.
>
> CL
>
> On Apr 9, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Christel Sogenbits wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Please dont understand me wrong. I think  it was therrible desigion  what
>> they did  and  Im so sorry for the dog. But it is sayd in the article 
>> that
>> the dog was their property not any of the schools. And this is the most
>> painful thing for me, or us, who we  understand how much they can give to
>> people  - they are just things if we watch it from the legal point of 
>> view.
>> Things what are legal are not always right from the moral point of view. 
>> And
>> absolutley whatever situation what we can take for example  Im sure that
>> there are people who will be on the opposite sides of the  result and say
>> that it was wrong or it was right or it was  something what had to be 
>> done
>> or it is just life.
>>
>> Greetings from sunny Estonia!:)smile:)
>>
>> Tervitades / With greetings
>> Christel Sogenbits
>> GSM: +372 58 440 521
>> E-mail: christel.chrissu at gmail.com
>> Skype: christel.chrissu
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chantel 
>> Cuddemi
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 4:08 PM
>> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Article: Blind womans HEALTHY guide dog is
>> killedandburied alongside her in fulfilment of her dying wish
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I can't believe someone would do this sort of thing. The dying woman
>> could've easily given the dog back to the school before she died.
>>
>> Forgive me for saying this, but the woman was being selfish! She wasn't
>> thinking of Toffee!
>>
>> This precious dog could've been matched up with someone!
>>
>> I would never ever think of putting Motley through something like this... 
>> I
>> just have no words...
>>
>> Chantel and Motley.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of daniel
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 6:45 AM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Article: Blind womans HEALTHY guide dog is
>> killedandburied alongside her in fulfilment of her dying wish
>>
>> 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?
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Criminaljusticemajor Extraordinarie" <orleans24 at comcast.net>
>> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 12:01 AM
>> 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'.
>>>
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303841/Blind-woman-s-HEALTHY-guide-
>> dog-killed-buried-alongside-fulfilment-dying-wish.html?ito=feeds-newsxml&utm
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