When does agency's neglect become abuse?

The yearling moose finally died a week after her injuries when Fish & Game and the Bonner County Sheriff's Office neglected the innocent animal and it perished. For a week, neighbors passed the yearling and the school bus drove up and down the road. Each time, everyone would try to look away but they were forced to look directly at her anyway to see how she was doing. Food and water were brought to the side of the road to make her pain a little less.

Multiple phone calls were made to the appropriate agencies and still she suffered.

Couldn't shoot her, that was illegal. Couldn't get Fish & Game to even call the reporting parties back and the sheriff's office decided she was dying from ticks and we should let Mother Nature take its course. Well it did, seven long days later.

When does neglect for our wildlife become animal abuse by the agencies? When did we become so calloused?

With all the turmoil and stress in our lives at this time the yearling was one more casualty. Why?

That pitiful image will stay all who witnessed the cruelty.

SHARON MARSONETTE

Laclede