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Attractive about Haeger and Jennifer Long’s Keller home, it’s accessible to see how abundant they adulation their dogs.
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Pictures of the six Labrador retrievers that they accept alleged pets through the years adorn their walls. A portrait, corrective by a acquaintance of one of their above dogs, Shiner, sits acutely on the home’s broiler mantle.
Every Saturday, Long takes his dogs to Home Depot to airing the aisles. Central the barn adhere the pooches’ orange Home Depot aprons accustomed to them by abundance advisers to abrasion during their account visits.
So the Longs say their hearts were burst in February when, afterwards a quick run to a fast-food drive-through to aces up lunch, Long alternate home and forgot that the couple’s 6-year-old atramentous lab, Lola, was still central his SUV.
Long, 57, said he was still convalescent from a austere bike blast 10 months beforehand that larboard him with abundant burst basic and injuries, including a blow that has broken his memory.
When Lola was apparent some three hours later, the Long’s developed son alleged 911, allurement for an emergency veterinarian. Long anon took the buzz from his son, cogent the bagman that the dog had died and that there was no charge to accelerate anyone.
But a Keller beastly ascendancy administrator did appear and canicule later, Long was interviewed by a Keller badge detective. In May, he was arrested for beastly animality — a Class A abomination amiss by up to a year in bastille and a $4,000 fine.
Long, who admits that he has a “pretty able personality,” is angry mad. He has assassin and aback accursed a aegis advocate and now says he wants to represent himself in court.
He won’t alike accede a appeal accord — not that he’s been offered one — and accuses Keller police, the Tarrant County commune attorney’s appointment and the administrative arrangement of blowing him and crumbling aborigine money.
He says no corruption can be worse than blow Lola.
“I had to go to a psychiatrist. Aback that dog died, the aperture in my affection was 15-feet wide,” Long said. “No amount what these [expletives] do to me, it is annihilation compared to what happened, because my dog died. They can’t aching me. They can’t do annihilation to me. They’re bullies.”
A backer with the DA’s appointment said they can’t animadversion on a awaiting case.
Judge Cheril Hardy, who will administer over his case, said she affairs to accredit a new advocate to abetment Long.
“I charge to accomplish abiding both abandon accept a fair trial,” Hardy said. “The law does not anticipate him from apery himself but it frowns up it because he’d be at such a audible disadvantage. I accept to authority him to the aforementioned accepted as I would a accountant attorney.”
Haeger Long holds a account of his dog, Lola, at his Keller home. Lola died in February afterwards he says he accidentally forgot her in his SUV aloft abiding home from active an errand. He is acutely agitated with authorities for activity afterwards him for what he calls a adverse accident.
Joyce Marshall jlmarshall@star-telegram.com
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Keller badge Capt. Tommy Simmons said already facts were gathered, board consulted with the DA’s appointment to actuate if the case becoming proceeding with an arrest.
“They agreed that it did,” Simmons said. “After we got acceptance of that, we went advanced and wrote the accreditation for Mr. Long.”
Regarding Long’s affirmation that he’s actuality bullied, Simmons credibility out that Keller badge accept had two added beastly animality cases this year, one involving a tethered dog that was abject afterwards falling from a dispatch barter and the other, a accession case.
He said allege accept been filed in those two cases as well.
Long credibility out that in April, a Burleson mother larboard her 1-year-old son in a car for bristles hours. The boy’s afterlife was disqualified adventitious and no one has been arrested.
Lola had been aloof a pup aback Long gave the atramentous lab to his wife for Mother’s Day.
On the morning of Feb. 18, Long took Lola and the family’s latest lab, Annie Oakley, to Home Depot as was their Saturday routine.
The leash had alternate from the abundance aback his wife mentioned the ancestors had a altogether affair to appear that afternoon. She asked him to run up to Taco Bueno and grab some tacos for lunch, so he and Lola headed aback out.
Lola had the run of Long’s Hyundai Sante Fe and, on this afternoon, acclimatized into the vehicle’s aback burden area.
Long went to the drive-through, bought the tacos and headed home.
“Lola was all the way in the back,” Long said. “We came home and I forgot her. I larboard her in the car.”
Long said he ate cafeteria and done up for the altogether party. He alike ran alfresco to the SUV to grab his sunglasses but never saw or heard Lola.
“Lola didn’t bark, didn’t move, didn’t jump into that bench at all which was actual clashing her,” Long said.
The ancestors went to the affair in Jennifer Long’s car. Aback they alternate home a brace of hours later, abandoned Annie met them at the door.
“Where’s Lola? I’m calling and calling, accepting frantic. I can’t acquisition her,” Long recalls.
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Long said it anon dawned on him that he had aftermost apparent the dog aback they went on their taco run.
“I go, ‘Oh God.’ I opened the [vehicle] aperture and there she is,” Long recalls. “I was actually sick. She was in the aback seat. She was still alive.”
Long said he abolished Lola with the baptize corrupt to try to accompany her amount temperature bottomward but knew she was dying.
In a panic, the couple’s 30-year-old son alleged 911.
According to the affidavit, Long afterwards took the buzz from his son, abreast the alarm bacteria that the dog had anesthetized abroad and that they did not charge any assistance. Aback abreast that beastly ascendancy was already on their way, Long responded not to accelerate anyone because he did not appetite them at his house.
When the beastly ascendancy administrator came anyway, Long acknowledges that he was edgeless in cogent her to leave.
“I told her to get the hell off my property,” Long said. “I anticipate that’s what this is all about. I absolutely do.”
The cremated charcoal of Haeger Long's dog, Lola, at his Keller home.
Joyce Marshall jlmarshall@star-telegram.com
Long took Lola’s anatomy to his veterinarian to be placed in a freezer until he could acknowledgment on Monday to accept her cremated. Her charcoal are now stored in a cedar box and kept in a bottle chiffonier in the family’s dining room.
A few canicule afterwards Lola’s death, Long agreed to accommodated with Todd, the Keller badge detective. He said he was taken to an claiming room, area the account was recorded on video, and was told the account was aloof a formality.
I’m accepting prosecuted for my dog dying in a abhorrent accident.
Haeger Long
Three months later, afterwards abiding home from a vacation in Mexico, he said he was abreast that a accreditation had been issued for his arrest. Aback he angry himself in at the Keller jail, he was captivated in a corpuscle until his $1,500 band could be processed.
Keller badge allege Long of foolishly and foolishly declining to accommodate all-important food, water, affliction or apartment to an beastly in his aegis by abrogation Lola abandoned in a agent for three hours.
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According to the affidavit, analysis done by the detective begin that the alfresco temperature during the three hours that Lola was in the SUV that February afternoon ranged from 72 to 79 degrees.
Using abstracts aggregate from the American Veterinary Medical Foundation and San Francisco State University, she estimated the SUV’s autogenous would accept been about 108 degrees aback Long retrieved his sunglasses.
After an hour of actuality trapped in the SUV, the autogenous temperature would accept been at atomic 115 degrees, the detective estimates in her affidavit.
Dr. James Scheifley, the Longs’ vet, told badge that although he did not accomplish a abounding assay of Lola, he believed that the dog’s afterlife was heat-related.
He said he didn’t apprehension any added accessible injuries on the dog and that he had cared for abounding pets acceptance to the Long ancestors over the years and had never apparent any signs of beastly abuse, the affirmation states.
Long said aback no dissection was performed on Lola, no one can say for abiding what dead his dog.
I can assure you Haeger would be the aftermost being in the apple to account abuse to any animal, let abandoned his own dog!
Keller Mayor Pat McGrail in a appearance advertence letter
He said his arrest has had an affecting assessment on him and his family. He says at the time of his arrest, he’d been attractive for a new job in the balance field, area he had formed for some 30 years. Now, he’s affairs trucks.
“In the balance industry, there’s a catechism on every appliance — accept you anytime been arrested?” Long said. “It’s destroyed my career. I am unhireable in the balance industry because that catechism is on every application.”
Even Keller Mayor Pat McGrail, a adept acquaintance of the Longs, has accounting Long a appearance reference, calling what happened to Lola “a adverse accident” which was the aftereffect of an “honest mistake.”
“I can assure you Haeger would be the aftermost being in the apple to account abuse to any animal, let abandoned his own dog!,” McGrail wrote. “Hopefully you will accede with me that Haeger and his ancestors accept already suffered abundant with the blow of their dog!”
The affliction has confused Jennifer Long to tears.
“We alleged the badge for advice and this has happened as a aftereffect of it. It’s aloof been terrible,” she said. “... It was an blow in our own driveway that was a mistake. She didn’t get out and we larboard and we’ve aloof gone through hell anytime since, Haeger especially, because he’s had to face these charges.”
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