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

[rhonda cruz]

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On Apr 9, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Toni Whaley wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> This article makes me very sad. I know that I could never make such a
> request. My daughter knows that if I die while Haze is still young enough to
> serve someone else as a guide dog, she is to return her to Seeing Eye;
> otherwise, my daughter can keep the dog. Of course, I know that my daughter
> loves dogs and will give any dog she has in her house the best care. 
> 
> Toni
> 
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> buried alongside her in fulfilment of her dying wish
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> 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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