Rude official letter

“The magistrate has declared my dog dead”

Coffee house owner Gabriele H. with her four-legged darling "Clooney", who is now 16.5 years old. A circumstance that apparently seemed inconceivable for a Linz civil servant.(Bild: Horst Einöder/Flashpictures)

Shock for a dog owner in Linz: officials had written to the 64-year-old that her elderly male Chihuahua "Clooney" could no longer be alive. She was asked to finally provide the details of the successor dog. For the Linz resident, this was a stab in the heart, as she is extremely attached to her four-legged darling, whose loss seems almost unimaginable to her.

When Gabriele H. recently received a letter from the Linz City Council, she was completely overwhelmed when she opened the letter.