Three Saint Bernards dog died because of wrong packaging

It all came from a good intention to provide a better living environment for her 4 dogs, however Christina, a Jakarta resident is very disapointed instead. Three out of four of her Saint Bernard died as the caused of wrong packaging, on their way to Klaten through Yogyakarta.

Those three dogs which weight around 65-75kg, found lifeless when the package arrived in Yogyakarta on last February 5th. One dog is still alive but in dying condition.

Christina was very shocked when she got a text message from her colleague in Yogyakarta, Handaka who wanted to adopt all her dogs. in that short message that she received on Saturday, February 5th state that three out of her four dogs were dead.

"Who would thought and guessed that in saturday morning, i received a news through text message from Mr. Handaka that 3 out of my 4 lovey that i have sent to him previous day have all died. I cried histerically uncontrolably." said Christina.

According to Christina, those three dogs were died in a miserable condition due run out of breath.

Doctor's vise said that the caused of Dior, Alvan and Dextra (name of the dogs) death is lack of oxygen with the result their lungs are rupture, with condition blood came out from eyes, nose and ear.

In her opinion, the kennel used to pack all the four dogs were too small for one Saint Bernards type. Even two dogs put into one cage, it is not apropriate.

furthermore, those four dogs were actually sent by expedition service through train. And after the dogs arrived, the receiver found that their kennels were sticked with duck tape which covering the air vent.

Christina became more dissapointed because PP petshop owner, the person who did the delivery service is reluctant to take respoinsibility. She said, the petshop owner, JI mentioned precisely that her dogs death were only an accident.

Christina admit that she has done a legal procedure by sending a subpoena letter to the petshop owner. After that even they had a meeting between two parties. However, the result was nothing because it has became a defence event from JI by putting the blame on Christina's side.

Christina revealed, as the consequence of this incident, She suffered material losses as much as 145 million rupiah, which include cost of upkeep, employee's salary, dog's food, electricity for Aircon. Please note that market price for Saint Bernard dog in productive age is minimum Rp 20 million - Rp 35 million each.

However, still petshop owner refuse to give fair compensation, by mean reason there were no written agreement that if the animal died so the petshop owner has to give compensation. The petshop party only ready to compensate the amount of Rp 3 million, which is limited to the cost of shipping.

source: www.detiknews.com 28th April 2011