Please read the story and watch the brief video clip and you can form an opinion for yourself. If you live in our area and think what the vet clinic did was wrong and should have been handled differently please come out and protest with us in front of Lehigh Animal Hospital tomorrow at 2PM.
LEHIGH ACRES, Fla - Rain couldn't silence the cries of some who say what vets at Lehigh Acres Animal Hospital did was heartless. Protesters gathered outside the animal hospital a day after two dogs were put down because its owners couldn't pay a $2,000 boarding bill.
Deputies escorted workers to their cars Friday afternoon.
The animal hospital insists they did nothing wrong. They provided us with copies that show the hospital mailed several letters to the dog's family warning they would give up ownership of the dogs if the bill was not paid.
No one at the hospital would go on camera for an interview, but they did admit to taking donations from viewers who reached out to help even after our story aired and the dogs were euthanized.
On Friday, they released this statement: "The dogs were put down because they didn't have a safe stable home to go to nor did they have any financial income to be cared for correctly."
http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2010-08-20/Angry-protesters-camp-outside-Lehigh-animal-hospital#ixzz0xDb4wxWh
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LEHIGH ACRES, Fla - A Lehigh animal hospital refused to answer questions about whether it put several dogs to sleep because the owners can't pay for boarding them.
Vets at Lehigh Acres Animal Hospital had nothing to say to our cameras after we asked whether it was okay to euthanize two dogs because its owners couldn't pay more than $2,000 in boarding fees.
Taylor's Tears Animal Rescue in Fort Myers tried to step in and help.
The group reached out to the hospital and said they would take in the dogs until some sort of payment plan was worked out, but were turned down.
Animal Services says the whole situation is a civil matter.
Legally, the hospital has to serve papers to the family saying they have until a certain date to pay the bills or they give up ownership of the dogs.
The family says they have not received any paperwork.
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February 07- January 2010
