Woman threatens lawsuit over dog obituary

A Florida woman is threatening to bring a discrimination lawsuit against a local newspaper because it refuses to run an obituary for her dog.

When Kimberly DeWolf’s 12-year-old pup Bailey passed away, she took a week of bereavement leave and submitted an obituary to the West Orange Times.  But the paper refused to run the announcement based on a policy that death notices are limited to human beings.

But DeWolf insists that Bailey is “not a dog: he’s my child.  They’re discriminating against me because it’s a dog in their eyes.”

Newspaper owner Andrew Bailey (no relation) says he is not illegally discriminating: he merely wants to avoid setting a precedent that could result in the newspaper eventually having to print obituaries for hamsters and all sorts of other pets.

Source: WFTV.com