Western Standard - July 21, 2022


Two Calgary residents facing bylaw charges in dog mauling death

Topics
broken health care system
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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

227.8

Word count

466

Sentence count

33

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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A woman was viciously attacked by a pack of three dogs and left to die in the streets of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The dog owners should be charged and punished for their part in this terrible crime, and the people who let them loose on the streets should be too.

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00:00:00.000 There's multiple facets to that story, and I've interviewed people on that one, and I've written on that one because it infuriated me because, yes, it took the ambulance 40 minutes to get there.
00:00:09.560 She was just, or a half an hour or something like that.
00:00:12.160 She was just like a six-minute drive, if you look on Google Maps, from the largest hospital in Alberta, and it took them half an hour to get her there.
00:00:19.940 She died.
00:00:20.440 She was a senior who was ripped to pieces.
00:00:22.700 That's a huge issue that can't be forgotten in this, and our government said, oh, we're going to study it for four months and see what we can do about it.
00:00:28.160 Not good enough.
00:00:28.780 They're also saying, we're going to put 20 more ambulances on the road.
00:00:32.140 Well, that's 20 more ambulances going to be stuck in hospitals sitting around while the nurses refuse to sign off on their patients. 1.00
00:00:37.380 That's the problem.
00:00:38.540 Everybody knows that the government's terrified of the unions, and they won't do anything about it.
00:00:42.020 So putting more ambulances just bungs up the hospitals further.
00:00:45.000 They've got to change the process, and it was reported as well.
00:00:49.440 When that woman was laying there bleeding to death after a dog attack, there were 18 ambulances in Calgary sitting there idling in hospitals
00:00:57.100 because they couldn't sign off and get their patients out.
00:00:59.540 But the other part is, too, I don't know if that would factor in the charges to the dog owners.
00:01:02.980 I guess it could say that perhaps it might not have led to a death otherwise.
00:01:05.860 But those dog owners should be charged as well.
00:01:07.840 If you've got three powerful animals that clearly weren't well trained, that were clearly potentially dangerous,
00:01:13.640 they killed a woman, it's your responsibility to make sure that those animals are not loose and harming people.
00:01:19.680 It's yours.
00:01:20.220 It's the person who's responsible and the people.
00:01:23.020 So, I mean, I don't know.
00:01:24.320 You know, I'm not saying these people should go to jail for the rest of their lives,
00:01:27.220 but they should most definitely be charged and convicted and punished because it was just beyond the pale.
00:01:34.820 I mean, again, I talk about dogs and pets all the time.
00:01:37.540 I love them.
00:01:38.260 I own some strong, powerful dogs as well.
00:01:41.220 And absolutely, well, they're well trained.
00:01:43.880 They're gentle.
00:01:44.980 But if they weren't, there's no way I would be letting them getting loose and around people.
00:01:49.040 It's just wrong and people need to be held responsible.
00:01:52.480 And this poor woman paid a terrible price, like I said, on two levels. 1.00
00:01:55.700 On one, because of a broken health care system.
00:01:58.160 And on the other level, because of neighbors who were irresponsible, awful dog owners.
00:02:01.700 And what an awful way to go.