Update: JT Animal Control Officer Off The Chain

The Joliet Township Animal Control Officer offered the unpalatable choice of quitting or getting fired for absconding with a Chihuahua and refusing to return it for fear it would be killed lost his job today, the Herald-News reported.

The officer, Bryan Jones, didn't even get to make a decision on quitting or getting fired, the story said. He asked township Supervisor Dan Vera for another day to get a hold of a lawyer, but Vera wasn't having any of that and pulled the trigger on his firing gun.

But fired or not, Jones still has the Chihuahua, and the Herald-News story says that's what matters to him.

“I’m terminated now,” Jones said in the story. “I just want to make sure nothing happens to (the dog). All I want to do is adopt this dog. That’s all I’m asking for.”