Concerns Grow Over St. Louis County's Animal Shelter After Family's Dog Goes Missing

CBS St. Louis

July 02, 2021

Kerry Obert says there’s no care or control within the St. Louis County’s Animal Care and Control Center (ACC). “Your job is to control animals and now mine is gone,” she said.

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Her dog Harley was sent to Animal Control back in May after a biting incident with a neighbor’s dog. According to county ordinance and Missouri law, dogs involved in an alleged biting incident are required to undergo a 10-day quarantine.

“They were so excited. We were supposed to get her back that day,” she recalled. On the day Obert was scheduled to pick up her dog, an ACC employee who was transporting Harley to a veterinary in South County lost control of the dog, allowing the dog to run away.
Obert told News 4 she didn’t learn her dog had been missing for nearly eight hours, which is when someone from Animal Control contacted her.
“I was 'like where could she be? Where was she? How did this happen?” she said.