LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) - Members of a family say they are hurt after a North Carolina animal shelter mistakenly euthanized their dog in a paperwork mix-up.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports the dog was a 16-month-old Australian cattle dog named Blaze. The dog’s owner, Joey Varker, posted on social media that Blaze had been sent to the shelter to be quarantined after biting a child in the family. Varker said his wife went to pick Blaze up but was shown a different dog.
Assistant County Manager Casey Smith says the error was due to a mistake in the intake paperwork. Smith says 10 dogs entered the shelter Saturday for bites, and Blaze was mistaken for a different dog to be put down.
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Smith says this was the first time the shelter has made this error.
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