[Armistead]

Hate to ruin the fun of the thread. My wife just called with shocking news, the owner plans to put all these dogs down tomorrow.

My wife is enraged. Per my story about the vet that killed himself, his wife was released from mental hospital. His executor was another vet. While we didn't know about payment for taking the dogs, she asked about it and said she would pay. We gave her a big discount and no volunteer charged for time, $900. She became furious.

Before the bill the executor said we could find homes and give some away, we did. The big problem, we're told the vet that owned the dogs had in his will if he died to have his dogs put down, but in suicide note he asked us to "please take them." Problem is his nut wife legally owns them and we have doubts about his will, nor do we understand all the legalities of such yet.

Long story, but the crazed women and the executor vet says they're coming to get all the dogs left and put them down and he is lying to the woman about what he told us.

Problem is we're a business, we can't handle all of this or hire lawyers, just not feasible. However, we are going to give her a full bill in the amount of $2500 and will not release the dogs until paid. We will offer to null the bill in exchange for the dogs.

It's my wifes deal, I suspect she'll fight it tooth and nail. The fact is we have homes for several. We plan to call the local news and see if they will show up, maybe shame her. Hopefully we can get some legal advice or find some way to resolve this. From what I'm hearing the wife hated these dogs and her husbands care for them......She is severely mentally ill.

Anyway, not sure of all the facts, but wish us luck. I would hope this would be inhumane and can be stopped, but according to vet any owner can legally put their dogs down. They're 17 left out of 24.