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News: Woman has her healthy guide dog killed and buried with her
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Woman has her healthy guide dog killed and buried with her
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How could they kill a healthy guide dog? Family of blind woman who put down her HEALTHY pet so it could be buried alongside her receive death threats
- Sheila Stadler requested healthy five-year-old Toffee be put down
- The guide dog was displayed in her coffin at the funeral viewing
- Family then receives death threats for destroying a health dog
- Funeral home said Toffee had been Stadler's 'constant companion'
The family of a blind woman who killed her healthy guide dog so it could be buried alongside her have suffered a hate campaign and received death threats, it was revealed today.
Shelia Stadler, 68, from Terre Haute, Indiana, died of cancer with her five-year-old guide dog Toffee by her side last month.
A few days later later her son Andy had the healthy dog put down so it could placed in Mrs Stadler's coffin to fulfil her dying wish.
But the controversial decision to destroy the dog has provoked a huge backlash in the town with Mrs Stadler's son receiving death threats - and even suffering abuse from members of his own family.
Heartbroken: Sheila Stadle apparently couldn't bear to part with her guide dog when she died
Faithful companion: Healthy five-year old Toffee was apparently put to sleep and buried at the request of his owner (file picture)
Mrs Stadler died on March 8, and had expressed a wish to her family that she should be buried with her beloved labrador Toffee.
Her son Andrew, a tax accountant, then carried out her instructions after saying the dog had shown signs of mourning and 'wandered aimlessly' in the days after Mrs Stadler died.
It is not known when Toffee was euthanized but the story first emerged on WTHITV, which stated: 'Shelia Stadler, 68, of Brazil, died March 8 at home with her service animal, Toffee, at her side.
'Days later, the Stadler family had Toffee, a perfectly healthy 5-year-old dog, euthanized, displayed in the coffin at Shelia’s visitation, and buried with her in Summit Lawn Cemetery right outside Brazil.'
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Omg. This is so sad... I don't know what to think.
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What the hell did the dog do? Smh at some people.
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I don't even know how to feel with this but sad.
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The son should've just let bygones be bygones and kept the dog. I see why the mother would do it from a psychological perspective but it was a perfectly healthy dog; her son could've just kept it.
Well, R.I.P to her and Toffee.
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Girl 
she should have just had the dog buried next to her when it died or something
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What a sad story. It's easy for us to judge, but none of us really know that situation. I'd like to think the dog didn't have to die, but I can't imagine what the woman was going through, battling cancer and being blind. She obviously was very connected to the dog. Her son could have gone against her wishes, but if it were me, I know it'd be hard to go against my mother's dying wishes.
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This is disturbing. They shouldn't have done this.
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That's not right. 
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The dog was so cute 
That's so dumb, it's a living being too, you shouldn't put it down just because someone who's DEAD wanted you to 
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Originally posted by ethan
What a sad story. It's easy for us to judge, but none of us really know that situation. I'd like to think the dog didn't have to die, but I can't imagine what the woman was going through, battling cancer and being blind. She obviously was very connected to the dog. Her son could have gone against her wishes, but if it were me, I know it'd be hard to go against my mother's dying wishes. |
Sort of what I was thinking. Well put.
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 what kind of mess
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Originally posted by Tylerbv
The dog was so cute
That's so dumb, it's a living being too, you shouldn't put it down just because someone who's DEAD wanted you to |
Preach. That's like saying a mother's dying wish is to put with their child to sleep and be buried with them because she loved them so much. Obviously not because it's still a living being.
And I swear that's some illegal **** too, to put down a perfectly healthy ANIMAL for someone's wish (whether deceased or not).
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Originally posted by ethan
What a sad story. It's easy for us to judge, but none of us really know that situation. I'd like to think the dog didn't have to die, but I can't imagine what the woman was going through, battling cancer and being blind. She obviously was very connected to the dog. Her son could have gone against her wishes, but if it were me, I know it'd be hard to go against my mother's dying wishes. |
Personally for me I would have kept the dog alive. The dog would be something I would remember that would always take care of my mother. It's like a legacy... having both gone would make me sad.
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While I understand respecting the woman's wishes, but euthanizing a healthy, live dog for the sake of a dead woman's wishes is just not right. 
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Originally posted by Hooligan
The son should've just let bygones be bygones and kept the dog. I see why the mother would do it from a psychological perspective but it was a perfectly healthy dog; her son could've just kept it.
Well, R.I.P to her and Toffee.
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Or he could've even sent the dog back to the agency where it was trained to be assigned to another owner. I mean, the dog was only 5 and healthy; he had a few years of service left in him.
At the same time, though, that was the woman's dying wish. Can't help but think that it was a bit selfish of her, considering all the potential that the dog had, but I've never been in the situation so I can't really judge.
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Feather, where in good HELL do you find these threads?
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Originally posted by ethan
What a sad story. It's easy for us to judge, but none of us really know that situation. I'd like to think the dog didn't have to die, but I can't imagine what the woman was going through, battling cancer and being blind. She obviously was very connected to the dog. Her son could have gone against her wishes, but if it were me, I know it'd be hard to go against my mother's dying wishes. |
The owner was selfish to even think about getting the dog killed, to be blunt, she's dead, she got no use for it. The dog could have went on to help others. 
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Well the dog is dead ...can't do anything to change that now 
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I think the family should've kept the dog and then buried it with her when it died, but you can NOT judge the relationship between an impaired human and a guide dog. That goes far beyond the relationship between any normal human and a pet.
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Originally posted by andresg770
Or he could've even sent the dog back to the agency where it was trained to be assigned to another owner. I mean, the dog was only 5 and healthy; he had a few years of service left in him.
At the same time, though, that was the woman's dying wish. Can't help but think that it was a bit selfish of her, considering all the potential that the dog had, but I've never been in the situation so I can't really judge.
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All of what you said, I agree with. Well said, Andres.
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