Canadian Walmart worker fired for saving a dog
A former Wal-Mart employee in Kemptville, Ont., about 60 km south of Ottawa, was fired for confronting a customer who left a dog in a truck during a hot day this week, she says.
Carla Cheney told CBC News she hadn't yet started her shift, and she was in her street clothes outside the store with colleagues when she spotted a Wal-Mart customer leaving his dog in a parked truck.
She said she called police, and an officer arrived to get the man's licence plate, then headed into the store to find him.
Later that day, Cheney said, she was called into the office of her manager, with whom she had spoken a week earlier about a different dog left in a hot car. She recounted that he told her there was nothing she could do about it.
She said she told him her side of the story about the dog in the truck, and he told her to come to him with any problems in the future. Cheney said she wouldn't do that.
Cheney was then let go.
