Two days ago one of our older retired sled dogs, Emma, had to be put down. Now, most of the time we have to take the dogs to the vets office to be put down, and then the bodies are disposed of by the vet. However, sometimes when the vet is already coming to the forest to check out other dogs, we have her put down the dog on site, to save the dog a big scary car ride. This is what happened with Emma, although there were two horrible instances of bad timing.
The first I did not see, but heard about from my coworker. Apparently, the vet arrived right before a tour group was supposed to have a look around the kennels. So as they came into the kennels, Emma was in the feed shed being euthanized. Bosslady had to quickly warn off my coworker, who was going to show them the feed shed.
The second case of bad timing was when we had to dispose of Emma's body. We creamate the dogs in a big furnace that we have on site...it heats water which heats all the buildings at the main camp. But the person who was disposing of Emma put her in just as a group of 90 13-year-old girls arrived for a two day stay. The smell around camp was TERRIBLE, and the kids all thought it smelled like s'mores or campfire. Poor city kids...they must have had some awful bad smores. We did not have the heart to tell them what it really was...
The first I did not see, but heard about from my coworker. Apparently, the vet arrived right before a tour group was supposed to have a look around the kennels. So as they came into the kennels, Emma was in the feed shed being euthanized. Bosslady had to quickly warn off my coworker, who was going to show them the feed shed.
The second case of bad timing was when we had to dispose of Emma's body. We creamate the dogs in a big furnace that we have on site...it heats water which heats all the buildings at the main camp. But the person who was disposing of Emma put her in just as a group of 90 13-year-old girls arrived for a two day stay. The smell around camp was TERRIBLE, and the kids all thought it smelled like s'mores or campfire. Poor city kids...they must have had some awful bad smores. We did not have the heart to tell them what it really was...
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