Friday, August 7, 2009

Deja vu?

Several years ago The Champion Newspaper of Decatur, GA ran a story on the firing of Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock from the DeKalb County Animal Services and Enforcement.
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 7, 2009 at 2:49 PM

    Thanks for pointing that article out...if you read it, the animal rescue folks and volunteers at the shelter were protesting AGAINST THE FIRING, and I quote:

    Meanwhile several protestors on Commerce Avenue in front of the Maloof Building on Aug. 28, mostly volunteers at county animal control, supported Vesco-Mock.

    “Dr. Vesco gave her heart and soul to her job,” said Heidi Pollyea, a local animal rights activist from Clarkston. “The county needs to give more support to whoever runs the shelter.”

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  2. ChrisAugust 7, 2009 at 4:33 PM

    You are missing the bigger point of the story - the doctor was fired. And animals were suffering. People protest all the time for a great variety of reasons - but the act of their protesting does not give validity to their cause.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM

    Yes ... the doctor was fired ... so that means everyone how was ever fired is a horrid person? You ever been terminated from a job? A friend ever been terminated? You cannot equate the lack of air conditioning to anyone's intent on making the animal's suffer, except maybe the county supervisors.

    Oh yeah ... loved your quote "the act of protesting does not give vaility to the cause" Self-reflection?

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  4. AnonymousAugust 16, 2009 at 10:06 AM

    If you believe that everyone who is fired is guilty of what they are being fired for, then surely one of your "advocates", Marilyn Zahler is the biggest abuser of them all...

    http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/14/nyregion/group-home-problems-cited.html

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM

    Wow...the ignorance, is anyone so guilible to believe Dr. Beth Vesco-Mock innocence, either you are and are in desperate need of a reality check or your a tool to be used by people just like her. She's a sickness, and should be treated as so.

    To you Chris, I would love to hear more about what you know. Me and my fiance have been against her from the start. I would love to help if only I knew how.

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  6. AnonymousApril 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM

    Chris : I worked with Beth Vesco when she was fresh out of school in Ohio. She was fired because she could not pass her boards, and despite being warned by the state repeatedly to "cease and desist" practicing, she continued to do so. They eventually gave her a lifetime ban to practice in ohio-- an unheard of step. Yet, even then she was discovered working as a vet at a local animal shelter, claiming that this was exempt from her practice ban. It was not. She has since gone state to state doing the same thing. Is she licensed in New Mexico? If you look at their professional licesnse verification site on line, noe license appears under any derivation of her name. Is it legal to be a director of an animal shelter and not be a vet? Yes. But is it legal to perform veterinary medicine even in a shelter and not be a vet? Not in Ohio. I do not know the New Mexico law. I do not wish her any ill will if she is doing good work-- but if the problem that ended her career in Ohio has not been addressed there, it has to be dealt with. To verify what I am telling you, you only have to contact the Ohio Veterinary Medical Board. her name is very well known to them. (at least it was back then)

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