Police can take injured animals to their shooting range to be destroyed

Examiner.com ^ | September 13, 2013 | Penny Eims

[JouleZ]

The Michael Vick Gun Range in Merced, CA. Sorry to hear this is “okay” anywhere.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They KNOW the Portuguese huntrs are dumping the dogs after hours but refuse to even install a hidden camera on their property for fear that would “discourage” the dumping.

Ok I am confused. Why would hunters dump their dogs? Trained hunting dogs are expensive.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There are some twists and turns to this.

Traditionally, psychopaths were seen as people who were born with their brains wired to lack empathy; sociopaths being those with normal brains who were trained at a young age to lack empathy.

Psychopaths are, however, a large gray scale.

All people must have at least some ability to disregard empathy to function.

Those with too much empathy tend to imagine sensations in others that do not exist; also to anthropomorphize human feelings in lesser life forms and inanimate objects: such people can be dangerous.

The large, moderate range of the scale is normal. People can empathize to some degree for some length of time, and then have “empathy fatigue”, where they can no longer muster the energy to care.

Those with some degree of psychopathy tend to be liked because they are seen as more objective. Those who are strongly psychopathic without being antisocial are often seen as good leaders. They are also effective in jobs that require discomfort to get a better result, such as medical surgery.

Then finally is the extreme scale of psychopath, about 5% of all people. Even here, most are not criminal, having learned how other rationales to not harm others, and rules of behavior among others. But they are incapable of caring at all, and have no empathy to even extreme suffering in others.

Sociopaths have their own rules, and while they almost have to be trained at a young age, they can only be retrained to not be sociopaths when they are still young. If they reach maturity as sociopaths, they will likely remain sociopaths.

[Fire_on_High]

$500? Your vet is a worthless vulture, preying on the hearts of those trying to give their pets the final kindness.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Yes, if an animal is injured enough to warrant medical care, which no one can foot the bill for, then the simplest thing is to mercifully dispatch it. Unless you want another government program to patch up every injured stray they find, at our expense. You sound like you'd be happy with government funded universal veterinary care.

As for the rest of your argument, its apples and oranges. Animals are not people, and euthanizing stray animals cannot be compared in any way to the government forcibly euthanizing human beings.

[Ben Ficklin]

30 years ago a feral cat gave birth to kittens behind a cabinet on my porch. I thought it was my responsibility to take them somewhere, and the closest place was a no kill clinic, but they wouldn't take them because they tested positive for some disease.

They told me to take them to the city pound where they would kill them, which I did.

They had a vacuum chamber about the size of a kitchen range, large enough to accommodate a big dog, and it had a glass door, so you could watch. He flipped the switch and they crumpled up into little balls in 2-3 seconds. No charge.