Your petition and flyer is filled with lies and intentionally deceptive. I encourage anyone who signs this petition to check into the facts. I am sure the two victims who where attacked by Heidi feel they are being victimized by your crusade to distort the truth. Additionally, the Village offered to have the Bacardi family send the dog out of the Village. Mr. Bacardi did not comply and it was a judge that held him in contempt, not the Village. Nor has the Villages tax dollars been spent on a lawsuit brought against the Bacardi's by the county. Any intelligent resident would know this. Mr. Bacardi defied the judges orders, spent time in jail and it was he who decided Heidi's fate by not complying with the law. Heidi is unfortunately a danger to the community and whether you love dogs or not, we can not allow a dog that is not controlled by its owner to attack residents. If a human being attacked a resident would the signatories demand he or she be able to continue on without liability? Please, lets focus on the truth instead of a family without respect for its neighbors, the law or its own dog dupe all of us.

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 Are you making this stuff up, or do you really have a biased and bad source of information?

Your comments clearly reveal that you are on the side of the few that want to persecute and punish us, by killing our dog. 

No matter what lies you believe, the truth is that Heidi is on Death Row, and all the mayor and Board have to do is agree that she can live with ANOTHER owner outside of Hawthorn Woods. The new owner would be found by a professional rescue organization. WE OFFERED THIS SETTLEMENT, IN WRITING, NINE MONTHS AGO.  And you can see from the official check registers how much of the tax payers' funds have been spent on this since.

 

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 Seriously, to the person who wrote the first note on this you are out of your mind. Now that the Village knows and many facts have been obtained you are delusional and frankly, as a psychologist, seem to have some issues that you need to deal with as a person. This Village is taking the residents for granted. It is basically robbery. I hope the press gets involved. I hope the board and the mayor get voted out of office. They may be safe for now, but for myself, as a senior citizen, this town is out of control. Before you start slamming others I would suggest you support your argument with FACT. If you cannot support with FACT you lose your case with those reading your rantings and ravings. Seriously, get some help. I think you have some issues with this family or perhaps have FACTS that the rest of the community does not have. If that is the case and you cannot provide them to the Village residents then it leads me to believe that you are not able to talk about it due to a legal issue. Sorry, but, the owners of this beautiful rescue dog have made themselves available at all times of day or night for phone calls, seem to have reasonable evidence and based on this, you lose your case as well as the city. We keep paying to have this linger and it is atrocious. I am glad our home is for sale and we are getting the hell out of here. Something stinks down at the Village and I am glad I have called the newspapers to see if they will put an investigator on the case. Heck, after retirement, I would love to hire an investigator myself to help this family and put into serious question what our Mayor and board are doing besides having coffee and spending our tax dollars. Please, I am available to help you free of charge and I am licensed.

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I find it hard to believe that Heidi is the only dog in Hawthorn Woods that has bitten.  I personally know two HW families that have dogs that have bitten for no reason.  I don't feel that destroying an animal is the way to handle this.  There is a big difference betwenn being bitten and being mauled.  I think the mayor and police chief should have more important matters to handle then worrying about a pooch that bit someone.  Or maybe they have to handle a small matter like this because they don't have the ability to handle the big matters.

 

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 Funny, I am an intelligent member of the community and was wondering if money was falling out of the sky to pay for our bills for this community. Of course our tax dollars pay for this. Seriously? Just look at the sad state of this state of Illinois is as well as several counties such as Cook. If you can't find sources of money then then is no money to pay salaries and our bills. Wow, do you think we are all stupid here? Let this dog go to another home and stop this battle. It is not worth the rest of the communities tax dollars as well as time spent working on this.