I had a German Shepherd that would eat a chicken feathers and all.
I don’t care if it was the most gentle, lapdog puppy out there....if it destroys my property, I have a right to defend that property by any means necessary.
Dogs running free are a potential menace and should they exhibit destructive tendencies, they must be eliminated.
The responsibility lies solely with the dog owner and it is he who must face any criminal and/or civil actions for his misconduct.
Beautiful dog. Damn shame it had such a stupid owner.
Once a dog gets a taste for livestock or starts running in a pack, there’s no going back. I’ve seen chicken coops decimated by Lassie gone wild.
Where I grew up it was standard practice to shoot any dog running loose on the farm. If not they would usually find each other and then you have a pack. Very dangerous.
The old SSS applies; shoot, shovel and shutup.
Oh well, the lawyers will get theirs regardless of fault. Doth dog and chickens will still be dead.
Breeder, dog’s new owner and the farmer, all three will end up lining two or three ambulance chasers’ pockets.
Novel concept.
My daughter carries extra bags when she walks her dogs. When she sees an irresponsible owner about to leave poop, she walks up to them and says "I see you have run out of bags, no problem I have extra, here is one for you" ha ha ha
Made the mistake, long ago, of leaving my beagle with access to the chickens.
When I came home it was to find every chicken killed
and the beagel looking the happiest I’d ever seen him.
Marley already got JUSTICE.
Play stupid games-—Win Stupid prizes.
I have shot at dogs which were in my horse pasture chasing the horses. I have lived in 2 different states which allow me to kill any animal harassing or threatening my horses.
That’s why Henry makes rifles.
It's remarkable how many pet owners don't understand that simple concept.
Beautiful dog
It’s too bad it had to die just because it’s breeder/owner is an irresponsible, self-absorbed, idiot.
We had an Icelandic Sheepdog, imported from Canada, a breeding bitch who was shown and had several titles. This is in a semi-residential area of PA. This dog escaped from our yard when she was almost three years old, by digging under a gate, and my husband almost immediately realized it and went searching for her, and right away heard shots and feared the worst. She went to the property next door, the first time she had ever been on that property. The man is a millionaire and had a few chickens and he said she killed a chicken. We did not see the chicken, but she probably did at least chase them, and maybe did kill a $5 chicken. They were just ordinary white chickens. Anyway, this man shot her immediately, and the police report said she did not die right away and he hit her over the head with the butt of his rifle. She was a 25 lb. dog. Icelandic Sheepdogs, as anyone can verify, are among the friendliest of breeds. This man had done excavating work for us, had lived next to us for 25 years, and knew we had dogs. We would have paid for 100 chickens, the dog was not replaceable. This happened in October 2013. I still cannot look at photos of her. Yes, there is a law that allows this, but this is barbaric in this day and age. I am sorry to see so many FR’ers supporting this shooting so strongly. I have no idea what happened in the case in the article above, and maybe the owner was a jerk. However, this can happen with perfectly responsible dog owners. I have been breeding, showing, and training dogs for years. Anyone’s dog can get loose due to some unforeseen mistake. Humans should try to show a little neighborly kindness.
Legally, the Sheriff’s department made an error. They should have cited the actual owner of the dog for allowing it to run free. This would preclude any civil suit because it would have established that the owner was in the wrong from the start. The other reasons are good as well.
This would protect the farmer, if the owner sued. The breeder has no claim.
As an added note, many cities in Kansas have dog breed specific laws.
http://www.dogsbite.org/legislating-dangerous-dogs-kansas.php
A guy I work with told me his grandpa had a dog he loved a lot. One day a neighbor comes by and tells him the dog got out and harassed his livestock and snapped at his kid. So his grandpa shot the dog dead.
The person was shocked he did it but his grandpa didn’t feel he could trust the dog to not do it again.
I guess that’s country folk for ya.
There is no such thing as a bad dog; only a bad owner.
Too bad the owners can’t be shot.
Marley got the justice that his irresponsible owner gave him.
I raised rabbits when I was a kid, and one morning I woke up to the sound of very loud gunshots. Jumped up and met my father who was walking out of his bedroom wearing only a towel, he told me to go out and see if any of my rabbits were still alive, both hutches had been ripped apart by dogs.
He shot at them from the bathroom window when he stepped out of the shower and happened to look out and see them doing it.
2 Rottweilers we had never seen were the culprits, he hit one through the back hips wounding it and the stupid thing ran into our garage and hid in a corner, we called animal control to come and get it. They did, it had a collar and when the owner was called came over from about a mile away and was threatening legal action and more or less swore we would pay for what we did. Cops didn’t do anything except explain we were completely in the right and to keep his dogs fenced in.
Kind of scary ending to the story is we didn’t know who this guy was, just where he lived and about a year later his house was raided by the DEA and the FBI, helicopters, swat team, the works. Seems he was a big time drug dealer and well connected to some very big and bad people, and the paper also mentioned him having guard dogs around his house as well.
Didn’t think anything of the threats when he made them of course, dad just smirked at him, you Did Not intimidate that man, but we kind of gave pause when we realized who was making the treats to us after we found out.