Animal Control Out of Control?

A Joliet Township Animal Control officer's job is on the line for absconding with — and refusing to return — a Chihuahua he fears will be put to sleep, according to the Herald-News.

The embattled officer, Bryan Jones, then tried to convince township officials that taking and keeping the dog was a rational course of action by pulling a dead cat out of a plastic garbage bag during the political body's usually humdrum regular meeting, the Herald-News said.

"'This is what’s considered care,' Jones said, wrapping a dirty blanket around the stiffened kitten. The animal, he said, was brought to the center sick and was left to die overnight without food or water."

Township Supervisor Dan Vera has given Jones the choice of resigning or getting fired, according to the article, but Vera wants the Chihuahua back either way. Jones has until 4 p.m. today to decide his fate.