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

Tue Apr 9 17:59:30 UTC 2013

Dont worrie. Nobody has sayd anything with what me personally dont agree.
For me the story is allso very therrible and sad. But like you sayd,
cultures and the way how people think is so different. In the world there
are millions who think like us, thousands who dont care and thousands who
agree with the son. And as a lawstudent I see the law side allso. With what
i dont agree allso very often.  

Tervitades / With greetings
Christel Sogenbits
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-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Ray
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 8:13 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

Oh, I did want to say one other thing. In a lot of places, dogs are not
viewed the way many of us view our dogs. They are working dogs, whether
hunting or maybe service, and people don't feel the way we do about ours. So
I hope, Crystal, that what I said before is not a slap about your particular
culture. I am afraid, though, that I wouldn't have honored such a request.

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 -----
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> 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-newsx
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