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Posted by: COLONELSANDERSW
Does no one understand what it's like to live in the country or a small town? You big city people have no clue on how we live. It's in your yard you can shoot It. End of story.
Why would you shoot a puppy that is posing no threat to you?

  • 12.26.2012 12:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: COLONELSANDERSW
Does no one understand what it's like to live in the country or a small town? You big city people have no clue on how we live. It's in your yard you can shoot It. End of story.

Except for, you know, when the law says otherwise.

Derp.

  • 12.26.2012 12:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: Gaara444
You're on his property. So long as he's not a dumb ass, he can just say he did it out of possible self defense and he can walk away Scott Free.

Do you have any idea what you're talking about? First off, you CANNOT shoot someone for simply being on your property. You have to have a probable cause for self-defense, and if the court decides that you didn't have probable cause, you will be charged with second degree murder. Doesn't matter if it's your property or not. Second, you need to learn a little bit more about how the law works.

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Posted by: MadMax888

Posted by: COLONELSANDERSW
Does no one understand what it's like to live in the country or a small town? You big city people have no clue on how we live. It's in your yard you can shoot It. End of story.
Why would you shoot a puppy that is posing no threat to you?
A 1 year old lab is not a puppy.

Strange dog could be feral or rabid or both and pose a potential threat.

  • 12.26.2012 12:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: COLONELSANDERSW
Does no one understand what it's like to live in the country or a small town? You big city people have no clue on how we live. It's in your yard you can shoot It. End of story.
Why would you shoot a puppy that is posing no threat to you?
A 1 year old lab is not a puppy.

Strange dog could be feral or rabid or both and pose a potential threat.
If the dog is just romping in the snow, why would you shoot it? Why not wait for the owner to show up, first? It's not like it's destroying property or posing a threat to your life or the life of your family.

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Poor pup. Didn't deserve to die. That neighbour is a heartless bastard.

  • 12.26.2012 12:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: COLONELSANDERSW
Does no one understand what it's like to live in the country or a small town? You big city people have no clue on how we live. It's in your yard you can shoot It. End of story.
Why would you shoot a puppy that is posing no threat to you?
A 1 year old lab is not a puppy.

Strange dog could be feral or rabid or both and pose a potential threat.
If the dog is just romping in the snow, why would you shoot it? Why not wait for the owner to show up, first? It's not like it's destroying property or posing a threat to your life or the life of your family.
Strange dog in the yard could be a feral dog or have rabies. Could be feral.

Evidently, it doesn't seem to matter the reasoning why he shot the dog seeing as he was only cited for the discharge of the firearm.

Different areas have different lifestyles even in the same country. you cannot impose you personal views and lifestyle and culture upon them.

  • 12.26.2012 12:59 PM PDT

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It angers me even more, because he only got a ticket for it. That wasn't even for the rights of the animal, it's because he fired a gun in public. Killing anything deserves something more than just a ticket.

  • 12.26.2012 1:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: COLONELSANDERSW
Does no one understand what it's like to live in the country or a small town? You big city people have no clue on how we live. It's in your yard you can shoot It. End of story.
Why would you shoot a puppy that is posing no threat to you?
A 1 year old lab is not a puppy.

Strange dog could be feral or rabid or both and pose a potential threat.
If the dog is just romping in the snow, why would you shoot it? Why not wait for the owner to show up, first? It's not like it's destroying property or posing a threat to your life or the life of your family.
Strange dog in the yard could be a feral dog or have rabies. Could be feral.

Evidently, it doesn't seem to matter the reasoning why he shot the dog seeing as he was only cited for the discharge of the firearm.

Different areas have different lifestyles even in the same country. you cannot impose you personal views and lifestyle and culture upon them.

Wow dude you are so full of it. What I don't get is why you're defending this -blam!- head. Even if the dog does have rabies, it's not like your house is made of cardboard. A dog can't bust into your house. It should have been pretty obvious that this dog was just being playful and having a good time.

And this is not an issue of personal views, lifestyle, or cultures. It's about reason, and why this piece of crap decided that his life was so terribly in danger that he had to execute a playful and docile dog. There was no reason why this guy had to kill this dog. If there was a person on his property, could he just kill them simply because he didn't want them on there? No, he couldn't. If they were directly and actively threatening his life, he could, but not if they weren't doing anything.

  • 12.26.2012 1:05 PM PDT

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Posted by: COLONELSANDERSW
Does no one understand what it's like to live in the country or a small town? You big city people have no clue on how we live. It's in your yard you can shoot It. End of story.
Why would you shoot a puppy that is posing no threat to you?
A 1 year old lab is not a puppy.

Strange dog could be feral or rabid or both and pose a potential threat.
If the dog is just romping in the snow, why would you shoot it? Why not wait for the owner to show up, first? It's not like it's destroying property or posing a threat to your life or the life of your family.
Strange dog in the yard could be a feral dog or have rabies. Could be feral.
So shooting it without seeing if the owner comes by or calling animal control was the better option?

Was he within his right to do so? Of course.

SHOULD he have shot the dog? No. It posed no threat to him.

  • 12.26.2012 1:06 PM PDT

everything/anything can be compared to sand on a beach

if that was my dog, i'd -blam!- -blam!- his -blam!- retarded ass -blam!- face.

  • 12.26.2012 1:12 PM PDT
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Poor dog :(

Poor girl crying :(

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Posted by: MadMax888

Posted by: Murcielago00

Posted by: MadMax888

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Posted by: MadMax888
Why would you shoot a puppy that is posing no threat to you?
A 1 year old lab is not a puppy.

Strange dog could be feral or rabid or both and pose a potential threat.
If the dog is just romping in the snow, why would you shoot it? Why not wait for the owner to show up, first? It's not like it's destroying property or posing a threat to your life or the life of your family.
Strange dog in the yard could be a feral dog or have rabies. Could be feral.
So shooting it without seeing if the owner comes by or calling animal control was the better option?

Was he within his right to do so? Of course.

SHOULD he have shot the dog? No. It posed no threat to him.
Feral means wild as in no owner. How was he to know the owner was right behind?

Agreed he was within his rights. As to whether he should have or should not have is irrelevant. He was within his rights to do so and for me needs to more explanation.

If his excuse was I shot the dog because I was within my rights to shoot the dog, that's fine by me.
I wouldn't do so even with the same rights.

  • 12.26.2012 1:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: Murcielago00
Feral means wild as in no owner. How was he to know the owner was right behind?

Agreed he was within his rights. As to whether he should have or should not have is irrelevant. He was within his rights to do so and for me needs to more explanation.

If his excuse was I shot the dog because I was within my rights to shoot the dog, that's fine by me.
I wouldn't do so even with the same rights.

Dang bro... just..... wow.

Is that how you make friends? That's just heartless.

  • 12.26.2012 1:17 PM PDT

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Didn't something like this happen a few months ago when a cop responded to a call, and just up and shot someone's dog for being in its own yard?

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Posted by: Murcielago00
Agreed he was within his rights. As to whether he should have or should not have is irrelevant. He was within his rights to do so and for me needs to more explanation.

Apparently you've ignored where state law shows it to be illegal to shoot the animal.

You can only shoot a dog on your property if it has no rabies tag or if it is threatening harm to your livestock or people.

The guy, in his statement, said he shot it because it was there. He didn't say it was a threat to him or to any animals he had, if he even has any.

[Edited on 12.26.2012 1:29 PM PST]

  • 12.26.2012 1:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: COLONELSANDERSW
Does no one understand what it's like to live in the country or a small town? You big city people have no clue on how we live. It's in your yard you can shoot It. End of story.

Explain it to me.

Because right now, the only message I'm getting is that country/small town folks all have this "looking out for myself and my family only, -blam!-ing shoot everyone else looking at us crosseyed" mentality.

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If the dog really wasn't on a leash, it should have been.

Just to throw it out there, a lot of rural areas do not have leash laws.

I know that, and some dogs are really good at sticking with their owners without a leash. However, this sad situation could have been avoided had the dog been on a leash. But who could have known the man would react the way he did?

Why is the victim being blamed here?

Yes, should have had the dog on a leash. But her crime pales in comparison so greatly to the punishment that it's akin to Edward Cullen trying to signal the Space Shuttle in orbit by reflecting sunlight off his bare chest.

[Edited on 12.26.2012 1:46 PM PST]

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Posted by: COLONELSANDERSW
Does no one understand what it's like to live in the country or a small town? You big city people have no clue on how we live. It's in your yard you can shoot It. End of story.


I live in a small town and don't think like this.

  • 12.26.2012 1:44 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

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Posted by: COLONELSANDERSW
Does no one understand what it's like to live in the country or a small town? You big city people have no clue on how we live. It's in your yard you can shoot It. End of story.

Explain it to me.

Because right now, the only message I'm getting is that country/small town folks all have this "looking out for myself and my family only, -blam!-ing shoot everyone else looking at us crosseyed" mentality.

It's been explained that this is not the case with the incident in question (which appears to have occured with neighbors that are relatively close to each other, but I will attempt to answer your question, since it appears to be an honest one.

On a farm, ranch or out from the 'burbs, if you see an animal that is not "yours", then it is a stray. A stray dog stumbling across a farm, ranch or other home that is "outside of town" is a threat to your property. A stray dog is not much different than a coyote, fox, or other predator. If you have livestock, poultry, or other source of food for this stray, that animal may be viewed as undesirable. Shooting such animals is not uncommon.

Now, this is a really small town, but the homes "in town" (the town only has 39 families with a total population of 120 people) aren't that many and everyone likely knows each other. If the dog was shot within "toss and fetch" distance of the home that the dog-owner was visiting, then (IMO) this was an improper reaction from that homeowner and I strongly suspect that there is more going on in the story than "I shot it 'cause it were trespassin'".

But the concept of stray/loose dogs being pests is not unreasonable or that strange in the less-populated areas of the country.

  • 12.26.2012 1:52 PM PDT

Okay, the next time I go out to my car and a guy tries to attack me, I'll just let him go ahead and beat me an inch to death cause you seem to think that Self Defense doesn't work in the favor of a guy that feels threatened. If someone honestly kills a human/animal out of self defense he's not going to jail under these circumstances. Or do you think every killer is a murderer?

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Nope.


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Posted by: Murcielago00

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Posted by: COLONELSANDERSW
Does no one understand what it's like to live in the country or a small town? You big city people have no clue on how we live. It's in your yard you can shoot It. End of story.
Why would you shoot a puppy that is posing no threat to you?
A 1 year old lab is not a puppy.

Strange dog could be feral or rabid or both and pose a potential threat.


1 year old infant can be feral or rabid or both and pose a potential threat. I suppose we can shoot that, too, if it's in our property.

[Edited on 12.26.2012 2:00 PM PST]

  • 12.26.2012 1:58 PM PDT

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Theres something wrong with a man who waits on his porch to shoot something.

  • 12.26.2012 2:04 PM PDT

If that were my dog, the guy would be getting a pair of broken legs.

Disgusting.

  • 12.26.2012 2:04 PM PDT


Posted by: St Major Dan
The only logical next step is to arm dogs.

  • 12.26.2012 2:06 PM PDT