Imagine an Animal Control Officer throwing your LEGAL foster dog in the back of your trunk telling you to "get over it." That's exactly what happened to Rambo.

The foster mother sobbed "I feel that my rights were completely violated in this situation, this is my home, my family, and we loved that dog.. what happened to him was supposed to be our choice! I haven't been able to sleep. When I woke up that morning, he was sleeping with my daughter!"

Rambo's foster family loved him. His foster mom spoke through her tears when she said, "He was the sweetest, sweetest, sweetest dog." After four weeks of Rambo sleeping with their three-year-old, snuggling and licking their baby, playing with their cat, and loving their other foster dog, they had decided to adopt Rambo. Before they could fill out the paperwork, tragedy struck.

Rambo had a rescue that had pulled him hours before he was going to be killed at Miami Dade Animal Services. Unfortunately he escaped from his foster's backyard through a hole that the other foster dog had dug under the fence. He saw the neighbor's lawn guy using a weed whacker and tried to bite at it. He tried to fend Rambo off using the weed whacker, which people guarantee made Rambo very frightened and he bit the guy in defense. The foster mom came out when she heard the guy scream and by then, Rambo was not touching him. The guy admitted that he had probably provoked Rambo, unintentionally. He said that he "didn't want Rambo killed because of this", nor did he call the police, he called the police just to report the dog bite.

Two days later, an Animal Control Officer named Jason visited the foster family. He told them about the dangerous dog law and that Rambo would have to be quarantined for ten days. Soon after another animal control officer visited the foster family named David Aycook. He left documents and told the family that they could by all means set a court date, and explained to the family that keeping a dog who was declared a "dangerous" dog was an extremely expensive undertaking. David told them it would cost thousands of dollars in insurance. He said that they would have to muzzle Rambo outside of the house, and he could also only be on a three-foot lead when walking.

David Aycook told the foster family that "they could not give the dog back to the rescue." He insisted that "the rescue was not allowed to take Rambo back" (even though legally the rescue was Rambo's owner). In addition he told them "not to talk to the rescue about anything." He told her that the rescue would just rehome the dog without letting the new family know about the bite and that "it will be on you if that happens."

Aycook did not hide the fact that he hated rescues, but also acted like he cared, which is why she trusted him. He told her that he worked in Animal Control because "he loved animals so much." He said he "wanted to save them all, but he learned that not all should be saved." In addition, he said that the rescue had no business putting a dog who had been used as a bait dog in a home with children. 

When her child tried to take away one of Rambo's toys and Rambo snapped at her child but did not bite or rip skin, the mom was frightened. She took an action that she regrets -- she called Aycook and told him. He told her that she had to keep the dog for the quarantine as the city had no place to quarantine the dog.

Even so, the night before the quarantine was up, she and her husband looked at Rambo and decided that they were going to keep him forever. They said that they "realized that if Rambo had wanted to hurt their children, he had had plenty of opportunity to do so." He loved their children. And they realized that when a dog snaps, it's a warning. If a dog wants to bite, it bites. Rambo didn't bite. 

The family researched the "dangerous dog" insurance and it costed $500. Far from what Aycook told them what it would be.  They planned how they would walk him, they even put up a privacy fence. The next morning, the foster mom heard someone banging on their front door. She didn't answer the door, but instead called her husband. He called the Animal Control and they told him that "if they didn't give the dog to animal control, they were going to call Florida's Department of Children and Families (DCF) and report them for putting their children in danger."

For the ten days that the dog was in the foster's home in quarantine, Animal Control didn't want to take responsibility for the dog, not to mention they never said to the family that they needed to get the dog out of their home because their children were in danger. But as soon as the quarantine period was over, they threatened the family. She made sure to call the rescue so that they could get the paperwork and court documents started. Meanwhile Animal Control came to get Rambo. Her husband angrily walked Rambo to the truck, but when asked to sign the release he signed a profanity, "F### you."

When a reporter talked to Aycook, he told another person that "the family signed Rambo over to animal control." He made sure to NEVER mention that the family told him they had decided to keep the dog and that they loved the dog. He told the person that they were scared of the dog. A protrusive lie.

The foster mother stated "The outcome of this situation should have been our decision. They took that away from us when they chose to threaten my family with child protective services, if we didn't allow them to take and kill Rambo. We were bullied and threatened into letting Pompano Beach Animal Control take Rambo, this needs to be stopped."

The rescued shared the next day their fears on their Facebook site, they wrote: "The rescue has followed all due process and abided by the instructions from animal control. She has filed an injunction and requested a court hearing to have the dangerous labelling of the animal reconsidered in light of the circumstances and within the timeline prescribed in the notice from animal control." But their fears were realized, and Rambo was killed before morning by animal control.

Not only did the animal control officers lie to the foster family and threaten them, they filled out the paperwork incorrectly. The foster mother's name is incorrect, her address is incorrect, and in spite of paperwork showing Rambo was an American bulldog, they listed him as a pit bull. Both the rescue and the foster family believe that Rambo was killed illegally. The rescue had filed all the necessary paperwork to have a court hearing. Animal control knew that. They also knew that the foster family was not Rambo's owner, and even told the foster family not to return Rambo to his rightful owner. A Broward County Sheriff's Deputy has also questioned the legality of the proceedings after seeing the incorrect write ups. 

When someone from the rescue was at animal control the day after Rambo had been killed, she saw Aycook and told him she wanted Rambo's body back. The next thing she knew, Aycook had thrown Rambo's body into her open trunk. He also, at some point told her to "get over it."

The veterinarian who did a necropsy on Rambo said that there was internal bruising and bleeding on Rambo's body consistent with his having been beaten.

Apart from this incident, there was another article written up about David Aycook and his cruelty to animals. David Aycock says that he loves cats. Which is why he sends them—as many as he can—to the Broward County (Florida) animal shelters to be killed. Confused? Me too, and are the people at Broward County Animal Care and Adoption.

According to a story in South Florida Sun Sentinel, “Broward County two months ago officially embraced a no-kill goal for its shelters, a move Miami-Dade County made just last week. But Broward officials and cat lovers concede the goal won’t be met as long as the shelters continue to fill up with feral cats, and for now, the cats continue to be put down.” 

Here is where David Aycook comes into play. He is the known Chief Animal Control Officer of Pompano Beach Florida. “While [Broward officials] try to achieve a no-kill shelter, he’s continuing his aggressive approach, sending scores of feral cats from Pompano Beach to their shelters.” 

Since last October of 2011, It is said that  Broward County Animal Control has killed 5,790 cats. Aycock says he is not a proponent of TNR,  he says TNR “won’t work, because it’s impossible to catch them all.”  Though Mark Kumpf, former president of the National Animal Control Association, doesn’t think so. 

Pompano Beach has a BULLY Animal Control Officer who told OUTRIGHT LIES to this family and POSSIBLY many more. If we DON'T take a STAND against this man, god knows how many more will be killed because of him! SIGN THIS PETITION TO CHANGE THE FUTURE FOR OTHER DOGS WHO COULD WIND UP IN THE HANDS OF David Aycook!