Houston Police Arrest Owner of Nearly Blind 14 Year Old Dog – Release the Blind Family Pet On the Streets to Be Killed

Shame on the Houston Police who did not take the steps needed to make sure that a blind 14 year old dog was taken care of when they arrested the dog’s owner.

The police seem to have just allowed the blind family pet Chihauhau, named Guero, to start wandering the streets of Houston, and the dog was eventually killed, most likely from a car that the dog could not see coming.

The family pet was eventually found dead on the side of the freeway.

“you wouldn’t put a kid on the side of the road. You shouldn’t put someone’s pet on the side of the road.” – Houston Mayor Annise Parker

This family had kept their pet dog safe for over 14 years, and in just a few minute traffic stop, these careless idiots on the Houston Police force took the pet away from the family.

The officer who told Mr. Garcia that the pet “was not his problem” should be removed from the Houston Police Department.

Houston Mayor Annise Parker said the city is sorry that a police officer put a family’s near-blind dog on the streets to ultimately die after arresting its owner during a traffic stop.

One of the dog’s owners, Josie Garcia, said police stopped her husband’s car for failing to use a turn signal, and subsequently discovered prescription medications in the vehicle, a local ABC affiliate reported. The medicine belonged to Mr. Garcia’s friend, who was also in the car, but police arrested them both.

The dog, a Chihauhau named Guero, was simply put on the side of the street while a tow truck took removed the vehicle.

“My husband pleaded with the officer to let him call someone to come get Guero, and asked him to call [the animal shelter], but he said it wasn’t his problem, that the dog would be fine,” Mrs. Garcia told the affiliate.

All charges were later dropped against her husband. But the dog was gone. So the family put up signs around the streets of Houston, asking if anyone had seen the 14-year-old dog, which was nearly blind from cataracts.

Three days later, they received a phone call, letting them know the pet had been found dead on Eastex Freeway.

Mrs. Garcia filed a complaint with the Houston Police Department Internal Affairs unit, receiving a swift response from the mayor.

“Let me give you a public apology right now on behalf of the city of Houston,” Miss Parker told Mrs. Garcia, the affiliate reported. “I don’t know what airhead — there’s another word in my mind but I’m not going to say it — would throw — you wouldn’t put a kid on the side of the road. You shouldn’t put someone’s pet on the side of the road.”

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