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Originally Posted by Cherie
Agree with you about the owner and poor Ger being dragged off when she could have intervened, Smudge, also why didn’t she carry out her own independent test, it’s a very strange case with no one coming out of it looking good
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Her own independent testing wouldn't have been accepted as valid by the government.
Since their own department had stated it had it.
That's why she asked, the government, going through the correct channels to do a further and independent test to confirm.
As for the frenzy around the day this poor pet was taken to be killed.
I tried to imagine my own trauma if say it was to take and kill my pet Staffie.
A number of supporters were there hoping to save Geronimo.
The incredible Police vehicles and police presence was in my view, really intimidating in itself.
Sadly, it all got frenzied and I can't imagine the distress the owner must have felt.
When you've tried to go through all the right channels just to get another more independent, not a government dept. test done.
To then see those coming to take your pet, backed up by an, in my view, disproportionate Police presence too.
To have just been ignored by the government..
From the Department, the Minister right up to the Prime Minister too.
I could guess if I was in her place, absolute panic would set in.
I think getting at her while it's said even now from the initial post mortem findings it's only possible he had tb.
Is unfortunate.
She has tirelessly tried to reason with the government on this and got kicked in the teeth by them and then had a Police presence to help.kill her pet, you wouldn't get if you were mugged!!
All for the sake of the government agreeing to an independently done further test.
Which both parties would have had to accept.
As she didn't accept the government dept. test results done before.
Just as the government wouldn't have accepted any result of a test she arranged herself independently either.
So what was she do.
Try to maximise all she could to save her pet when she and others who were vets said the pet showed no signs of having tb.
Or should she just have rolled over and obeyed the government dept. to let perhaps her healthy pet to be slaughtered unnecessarily by said government order.
I know what I would choose to do for my pet.