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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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15. "clinic staff could not return the cat to Dockery without treatment,"

Reply to moriah (Reply #10)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 05:27 AM

Dec 2011

Nothing I have read suggests they were going to allow him to leave with the injured animal, at which point it became their own self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is just a story of heinous bureaucratic assholes in the wrong line of work.

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The AHS Campus for Compassion..... Curmudgeoness Dec 2011 #1

What's especially infuriating is that, after refusing liberalhistorian Dec 2011 #14

Read my longer post about this, I edited my original n/t. moriah Dec 2011 #18

Pilanthropic orginizations are forced to act cold.. orpupilofnature57 Dec 2011 #2

in memoriam Enrique Dec 2011 #4

I'm angry, sick and horrified by this...and appalled at the stupidity! Moonwalk Dec 2011 #3

If people would read the full story on this... moriah Dec 2011 #6

Read the next paragraph, Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2011 #7

Surrender is the LAST and FINAL option, and he signed the paperwork. moriah Dec 2011 #8

How many ways is one to interpret the following phrase? Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2011 #9

He could have declined to surrender the cat and instead taken it home with him. moriah Dec 2011 #10

One more time, as has been previously pointed out, liberalhistorian Dec 2011 #13

Again. You are misconstruing the timeline. Read the original article. Please. Thank you. moriah Dec 2011 #17

"clinic staff could not return the cat to Dockery without treatment," Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2011 #15

Read the original article. You are misconstruing the timeline. moriah Dec 2011 #16

BTW, when I say he could have declined to surrender, I'm going by the original article on the case: moriah Dec 2011 #12

I like the image of a 49-year-old recovering heroin addict Enrique Dec 2011 #5

Speechless. Fire Walk With Me Dec 2011 #11