Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Can you put a price tag on man’s best friend?

It’s a question that the Texas Supreme Court will attempt to answer in the next few weeks, as a lawsuit brought by grieving pet owners nears resolution. In the summer of 2009, Jeremy and Kathryn Medlen’s Labrador retriever, Avery, escaped from their home in Fort Worth. A few days later they received a call from the local animal control center, telling them that Avery had been found and was ready to be picked up. But when Jeremy Medlen and his two small children arrived at the dog pound, they were met with a shock: Avery had accidentally been put down the previous day, when pound worker Carla Strickland mistakenly added him to the list of animals to be euthanized.
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