A former Teton County Sheriff's deputy who shot a dog three times after its owner had tied it to a tree pleaded guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor trespassing..[More]I had to dig through a lot of stuff to find the last time I talked about this.
Enter "dog" in the site search box and see for yourself.
I may have to start a category right alongside the "Only Ones" files. Well, not too close to it. We all know how that can end up.
So--what do you think? "Misdemeanor trespassing" for us, too...?
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Enter dog, LOL! Man's best friend but surely not cops best friend as a long string of deadly events clearly show.
My hunch is cops kill dogs in the large numbers that they are currently doing is because they are on power trips. Deadly power trips, they feel all the raging power and have to do something with it to prove it to themselves that they are powerful. So they have to kill something and right now its dogs. The family pet, even on a chain in the backyard isn't safe from these monsters.
Ex-judicial summery execution.
If they do it to citizens then why not to dogs?
I'm sure you know the old saying...
If someone is willing to harm a helpless animal, they will have little or no problems harming a helpless person.
So, the obvious answer is never to allow ourselves to become helpless.
And yes, David. If you create a new category of "only ones," kindly keep them separate. Like dirty dishes left in a dark kitchen, they will tend to breed.
A dog isn't a domestic animal, it is a family member. Shooting a TIED dog -- no matter what it is accused of having done -- and shooting a handcuffed arrestee are a short walk from one another. Note that the dog's attempted summary execution was based on a report by a woman with a reputation for making false reports. What about arresting HER?
Another thing. A dog is your intruder early warning system. JBTs hate it when their surprise gets spoiled.
"911 what's your emergency"
"i heard shooting outside and my dog yelped and he's not moving, someone shot my dog and they're coming for me"
"ok i need you to stay on the line with me"
"well i'll just put the phone down and switch to loudspeaker while i go get my rifle. you'd better send an ambulance. talk to you in five"
Yeah, what Jon said.
Remember "Sleeping With the Enemy?" The woman, at the end, is tired of being follwed and terrorized by the husband she fakes a death at sea to escape. He breaks into her house, knocks out her new and only friend, and says if he can't have her, no one ever will.
The police answer the phone. She stammers out "Yes, this is Laura X at 555 Elm Street, come quickly please, I've just killed an intruder."
Her husband's eyes get as big as saucers. He still doesn't believe. After he takes a couple of steps toward her, her pistol makes a believer out of him. Three times.
A trespass involving violence or the threat of violence is SERIOUS business. They now belong to you.
There is a line form the musical Chicago," ....so I fired a warning shot, into his head!"
Always good for a laugh.
It is illegal to say what I think.
So ... if the dog is loose in your fenced yard, it gets shot ... and if the dog is tied in your yard, it gets shot.
So ... why bother to tie the dog up?
I wonder what happens if you own more dogs than a cop can shoot in the time it takes a dog to get to the cop?
Probably not the right kbarrett, I wonder what happens if he can't get your dog shot before something unfortunate happens to him, not involving your dog.
It's all part of the new professionalism.....
http://www.theagitator.com/?s=puppycide
Radley Balko files these incidents
under the tag "puppycide" ...
which is not puristic etymologically
speaking but conveys more to most
readers than "canicide" would.
There's a *lot* such incidents.
ISTR someone (Clayton Cramer?)
writing that blacks in the South
were sometimes forbidden to own
dogs, as well as guns. All the
best, cycjec
mamaliberty: you are absolutely
correct. while kindness to animals
doesn't prove that a person will
not harm humans, the converse does
hold. Cruelty to animals is a
definite danger sign. cycjec
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