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Posted on 07/07/2008 5:51:15 PM PDT by Shermy
DENVER -- A man who allegedly shot and killed a small dog told police that the terrier shot itself while playing with his pistol.
Ryan Hayes was arrested last week on charges of possessing a weapon while under the influence, animal cruelty and reckless endangerment.
Lakewood police said Hayes, 49, shot the Jack Russell mix in the head.
Marlys Duggan told the Denver Post she is the owner of the dog, called Patches, and she was visiting Hayes when the dog was shot.
He is "my across-the-street neighbor. I usually go over three or four times a week to visit," Duggan told the Post.
Hayes seemed to like the Patches, Duggan said. On the day of the shooting he had been drinking, she said.
Duggan said Hayes stopped at the refrigerator for another beer before going to his room with Patches in tow.
"The next thing I knew, I heard this loud explosion," Duggan said. "I thought it was a transformer blowing."
She walked into the room and found the dog's body.
"Ryan said, 'I didn't do it. The gun was on the floor, he was playing with it,'" Duggan told the Post.
A veterinarian told Duggan that the injury could not have been self-inflicted. That's when she called police.
"[The vet] showed me the body of the dog and stated the gunshot would appeared to have entered the right side of the dog's face in a downward motion, tearing through its jaw. It had been shot through the head from above," a police report of the incident stated.
When police questioned Hayes, he admitted he shot the dog and claimed it was all an accident, police said.
"Hayes stated he picked the gun up and 'palmed it,' with his finger on the trigger. Mr. Hayes said he then turned to his right and the gun went off, which is how the dog got shot," according to the report.
Duggan told the Post she will probably get another dog eventually.
"I still can't believe this would ever happen to a dog of mine," she told the Post. "Ryan totally betrayed the trust my dog had in him."
Just d@mn!
The dog’s gone.
Seriously, why is it animal cruelty to shoot a dog and kill it instantly, but not a deer?
Hold mah beer ping
Maybe the gun did it.
Transmogrofication.
Pretty much like the libs/socialist/progressives think they can get into your life and run it better than you can.
A dear doesn’t slobber all over you and wag it’s tail when you come home?
No, they just stand over in the edge of the woods waiting for you to go to sleep so they can slip into your garden and eat all your pepper plants.
Makes sense.
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As it is explained, the gun (a rifle, in this case) was loaded, a round in the chamber, safety "off", or no safety at all. Dog jumps onto owner with front paws extended, with a paw or toe coincidentally coming down on the trigger.
But that's just a cover story, made up by the dog.
The real truth is the dog was gettin' sick and tired of the lousy food it was given to eat. All that corn product filler, drying out his skin something horrible, making all the hair fall out, 'specially right at the base of the tail, making it always itch like crazy!
Or your corn, the vicious bastids.
How many dogs do you have? ;^)
In America dogs aren’t food.
Dogs were not in season.
It wasn’t his dog. It was is neighbor’s pet.
Buddy this line of questioning is above you.
I’m not beginning to excuse his behavior.
I’m questioning what is animal cruelty. And that’s a fair issue in the abstract to ask. Can you only be cruel to pets?
What if you had a dog that was just not working out and was not adoptable by anyone else. You might be able to bribe some animal shelter into gassing it at some considerable expense to you or the community or you could get rid of it humanely by yourself.
That was my point. Why would a bad dog be something you couldn’t humanely kill but a sweet little bambi something you could wound and leave unfound in the forest to die slowly?
I don’t think it has anything to do with whether you want to eat them or not. Nobody is talking about eating live animals.
Euthanasia isn’t considered animal cruelty. Also, is an animal a pet if it isn’t ‘working out’ say like a pitbull that bites kids or whatever. Things are done differently in the country than the city. Here where I live, folks own guns and do this a lot. I think shooting deer is cruel but that’s my own opinion. Not really a fair fight in my own opinion.
“”Hayes stated he picked the gun up and ‘palmed it,’ with his finger on the trigger. Mr. Hayes said he then turned to his right and the gun went off, which is how the dog got shot,” according to the report.”
There seems to be a period of time unaccounted for between Hayes turning to the right and the gun firing. I think it’s pretty obvious what happened here, a UFO abduction.
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