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my son in and I’ll see if they want to
come and say their goodbyes.’ My
one son did. And I took pictures of
that. It was a very emotional thing. So
we left, thinking he’s going to be put
down within the next 24 hours.”
Other on-line comments criticized
the Harris family for leaving their
dog to be buried “by a stranger.”
The problem with that reasoning was
that Dr. Tierce was no stranger to the
Harris family.
“We trusted Dr. Tierce,” Jamie
Harris said. “He had been our vet for
25 years.”
Marian discussed Sid’s final resting place with her children.
“We had discussed that he was
going to be buried at their [Dr. and
Mrs. Tierce’s] ranch in Millsap,”
Marian said. “Because the vet had
done that with several of our other
animals. That’s what we were led
to believe, that he would take them
out to his ranch and bury them. My
son had said, ‘I just don’t want him
to be cremated because I feel like
he ceases to exist if he is cremated;
but if he is buried, he somehow still
exists here somewhere.’ And that was
a discussion I had had with my vet’s
wife, who is the office manager. As
we had talked about, if it was possible, he didn’t want him to be cremated; he wanted him to be buried at
the ranch.”
It all sounded so serene, almost
idyllic. What dog, or human, for that
matter, wouldn’t want to be laid to
rest on a beautiful ranch?
“He had put other animals down
for us,” Jamie Harris said. “We have
pictures of Case sobbing, saying
goodbye to Sid. And they [Dr. and
Mrs. Tierce] were there when all of
that was going on, when they saw
our child and Marian sobbing over
Sid.”
Dr. Tierce had reportedly made
the statement following his arrest and
release that, “That lady wanted me to
put her dog down, but I just couldn’t
do it.”
Jamie’s answer to that comment
was simple.
“I was very clear that even
though the timing was rough, I
wanted to put him down because
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