Mary Wild gets paid to handle dogs. She
let beloved show dogs die in her van after returning
from an Iowa dog show June 21st. The Dodge Sprinter van was parked
in the driveway. In the morning sun.
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Wild is currently free on bail but then you know all that.
What you
don't know is what I know. Mary
Wild told police that she arrived home about 1:00 AM but she should have been home by 10 PM.
Did she lie? If not, what did Wild do on the way home?
Update: Click to skip to
Mary Wild Sentenced
Today or get all of the background, prosecutor interview,
etc before you mull over the sentence handed down.
I may tweet a lot but you won't find any of this on Tweeter. A
(real) professional handler lives approximately the same distance away in another direction.
He left the showground long after she did but he still arrived home at 10 PM after stopping to dump his rig and again to
gas up. He observed that “Wild Mary” must have partied or slept on
the way to her mother’s house in Arnold.
Well it seems that she did stop to visit friends and that makes you wonder when
was the last time the dogs were watered or pottied? When she
decided to stay for hours,
did she bother to take the dogs out there in that subdivision? Let's hope that her
Junior Handler assistant took care of the dogs while Mary Wild
partied, I'm told that's why the old-time terrier men had
assistants. On the other foot, she told police that the dogs
had been in the Dodge Sprinter van for about 8 hours but the facts
dispute that.
Wild’s story is that she “planned to put the dogs in kennels in
her garage” but that she left the dogs in their crates in the van
“because of the heat.” That must mean the garage had no ventilating
fans or air-conditioning. So worse than what she told police, she intended to put
the dogs in the garage
later? In the heat of the day?
I
am only a bird-brain but this makes no sense to me. If
the garage would have been cooler during the day, why did she put
her own comfort ahead of the 15 minutes it would have taken to see
to the comfort and safety of those dogs? Does it matter if
they were only going to be moved to more crates in the garage?
She told police she got up to check on the dogs about 4 A.M and
they were fine but when she got up again at 6:30, they were dying.
I don't think the police or the vet believed that and neither do dog people. Some even go so far as to speculate
that she was "passed out" but not from driving 7 or 8 hours.
Sitting on power lines and wires,
I am really tuned in to dog people because the
boss pays me real seeds instead of peanuts. A
breeder called a friend and I heard her say that Mary Wild had bought a dog from her but the check kept
bouncing. She said Wild then told other people that the dog
had been “abused” which seems to have had something to do with her
not paying for it. There was a lot of crackling on the line
but that choice of words made my tail feathers go up knowing that
woman abused these dogs to death. I heard one of Mary Wild’s clients felt sorry for her
and made the check good. I wonder if that client feels sorry for
her now?
Her
mother has Malamutes and I heard that Wild showed a Champion Malamute
that “looked good in the group”
whatever that means. I look good in the flock but… well, back to
what puzzled me. They said the Malamute and two of the Goldens were
not shown the next day and the judge’s book showed them marked
“absent.” They were wondering what could have happened to those
dogs to keep them from being shown.
I
can’t read newspapers but The Dog Press staff can and they are cawing
like crows about the vet who apparently received the dead dogs. The
editor said the vet ’s statement implied she felt sorry for
the handler despite the horrible fate of those dogs. Laura Ivan, DVM said
"This was not intentional, but a
horrible, tragic accident."
The media guy
Dennis, said a professional driver who ran a race on worn-out tires
could expect to have a wreck and that would never be called an accident. The
editor agreed, observing that Mary Wild also took money from people and going to bed without
having seen to the well-being of every dog in
that van was no accident. BJ said it was a conscious decision of
self-interest taking priority over the dogs she was paid to protect.
I’m just a little bird but I understand that!
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Heatstroke can be fatal. Below are signs of
heatstroke and actions you should take if your dog is overcome.
Early Heatstroke:
Heavy panting.
Rapid breathing.
Excessive drooling.
Bright red gums and tongue.
Standing 4-square, posting or spreading out in an attempt to
maintain balance.
Advanced Heatstroke:
White or blue gums.
Lethargy, unwillingness to move.
Uncontrollable urination or defecation.
Labored, noisy breathing.
Shock
If your dog begins to exhibit signs of heatstroke, you should
immediately try to cool the dog down:
Apply rubbing alcohol to the dog's paw pads.
Apply ice packs to the groin area.
Hose down with water.
Allow the dog to lick ice chips or drink a small amount of water.
Offer Pedialyte to restore electrolytes.
Source: American Kennel Club |
About then the phone rang and it was another first-hand report. The
caller stayed at the same motel as Mary Wild and when she exercised
her dogs she noted that Mary's van was closed up with the dogs in
it. She told The Dog Press that there was an air conditioner on top
of the van and a generator to run it, but Mary Wild had only a fan
running. It was at night but the caller was concerned that someone
might trip over the extension cord that ran into Mary Wild’s room
and cause the fan to be unplugged.
Another report had to do with the subdivision where Mary
stayed. The assumption was that she does keep the dogs in the
garage with no air conditioning. This person said the junior
handler who was traveling with “Wild
Mary” wanted to take
her Dalmatian into the house but Mary told her the dog
would be just fine in the van. Her dog died in the van.
A new handler called to ask whether or not AKC will suspend Wild now. The office is wondering the same thing and I
know they are trying to get a response from AKC but the editor said that will probably take some time.
(Editorial correction: It was previously
reported that Mary has a twin sister who
could show her dogs. That was not true. Mary's sister
Marcia is ten years younger and though equally pretty, is not a
twin. Marcia is an accomplished handler but lives in SC.)
One person who knows the family said
that
the same lawyer who
represented Jamie Orr when 17 dogs died in her van will be
representing Mary Wild.
We birds have wings you know. We
are self-cooling. Dogs are not, so read the AKC information
they are going to put in here. Never ever leave your dogs in a
van or car in the summer. Not even in the shade. I can
tell you, as a twig-sitter, the sun moves faster than you think and
shade can turn into hot sun in a matter of minutes. I've
learned that dogs can only pant and when they do, that increases the
humidity in a van or car so even a fan isn't going to help much.
I avoid cats like the plague but I like dogs. I'm good friends
with a flock of Martins, they like to live around people just like I
do and they first got me interested in dogs. I think I have to
go now, that might be another story. I like talking about my
feathered friends and I hate having to tell you people this awful
story about the dogs.
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Dog Handler Charged
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Mary Wild slept in comfort, 7 dogs died in her van.
Mary Wild Kills 8 Dogs
- charged with 8 felony counts of Animal Abuse
Wild's Trial Begins
facing the judge and up to 8 yrs prison.
Mary Wild Sentenced,
some say a "Mockery Of Justice"
AKC Refuses to Suspend
or comment
on convicted handler Mary Wild
Interview with Monica Colvin, her
top winning Akita among dogs that died.
Mary Wild's Probation Revoked
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