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Ottawa fails in its treatment of dead pets.
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This is an unhappy subject even if the city was doing a good job. People's pets get lost and sometimes they get killed. The city picks up the bodies. They are supposed to be keeping a dead pet data base and all dead pets are to be checked for microchips.
What really happens is that the bodies are bagged and tossed in a freezer and they could still be there a year later.

This only became known when someone was determined to find her pet and had a microchip scanner. She scanned all the cats in a freezer and found out of 50 cats scanned, 15 had microchips. That means 15 families are worrying and wondering where their pet is and the city could have helped them. One small cat in a collar looked familiar and she tracked down the owner. It wasn't a happy reunion, but at least the woman had answers about her pet. She also has a lot of anger over the way things were handled.



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ci...-1.5185158

This is just not good enough. The city picks up dead animals. All cities have to do this for health reasons. When the dead animal being picked up is clearly a pet, the city needs to handle things a little more sensitively. The animal should be scanned and its information put in a data bank or owners contacted before it is ever placed in a freezer.

No pet owner should have to rummage through a freezer full of dead cats to find her missing cat. That must have been a horrible experience. I hope she is okay. What happened is the stuff of nightmares.

I hope the publicity is enough to bring about change. No pet owner should have to wait and wonder and then be forced to rummage through a freezer full of bodies to get answers.
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Catherine

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