Posted on 09/03/2013 6:19:51 PM PDT by aomagrat
An Irmo family was shocked to come home to a note on their door explaining that a police officer had shot and killed their dog on Labor Day.
The police chief says the shooting was justified but the family says the action was excessive and unnecessary.
Four-year-old Kenya was a German Shepherd Lab mix. She's been known to roam her Irmo neighborhood from time to time. But her family says she's never gone far and never hurt anyone.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.wistv.com ...
“the insomniac dog owners of FR.”
We need to start a club or sumthin’.
:)
It sounds like you didn't read the article.
I live I the country but off a fairly busy highway connecting several towns. The speed limit on this road is 55, but most people do 60 or 65.
City folks are often abandoning their dogs and cats here, thinking (wrongly) that some farmer will take them in. And people in the country often let their dogs roam free.
The traffic has increased dramatically over these past two decades. The result of all of this is there are a lot of run over and killed dogs and cats along my road.
Saddens me because so many of those could be prevented if the just tied their dogs or took the unwanted pets to the shelter.
I read in the article that they routinely allowed their dog to wonder the neighborhood. That makes them careless.
A wandering dog craps on other people’s property, runs into traffic, terrorizes children by it’s mere presence and scares people who find the animal sniffing them. As a stray, we in the country shoot most all of them since most are drop offs. We do the job in the country while police do it in the city and suburbs’. If you’re tired of your animal, turn it into the pound rather than dropping it off in the country. Ammo is scarce and expensive these days.
No. Its a war on civilians by a new Carabineri/Gendarme/Vopo military force.
I bring them into the yard and track down their [very grateful and relieved] owners or find them new homes if nobody claims them.
I like my way better.
Heh.
;)
We don’t shoot dogs willy-nilly. If it has a collar then we leash them and call the owner. With the large number of dogs that wander onto the property without a collar, we’d need to start a kennel to house them all. It’s bad enough we have to haul them off to the ‘outback’ area where the bears and coyotes finish them off. It looks like a boneyard there.
That’s quite amazing.
How charming.
For whatever reason, if there’s a stray animal within 3 miles of my house, it will find its way here without fail.
Most of the time, they’re one of the neighbors’.
[I may not know most of my neighbors’ names but I know what yard which dog belongs to]...:D
I’ve had Pits, Goldens, Cockers and everything in between show up but the funniest was the pack of tired, panting coonhounds who popped up one morning, milling around my front gate.
They acted like they intentionally meant to be here and were quite impatiently baying for me to open the gate and give them water.
I checked their tags and while they awaited the hunter’s arrival, they lazed around on the porch like...well, porch hounds and we enjoyed each others’ company immensely.
Turns out that their night of hunting had brought them 3 miles from their home and somehow, they’d made it across 4 lanes of I-70 intact.
I think I “inherited” this from my gramma.
She never bought a pet in her life.
They all chose to just appear one day.
She even had a stray horse show up which went unclaimed and my uncle kept.
I never got quite *that* lucky...:)
[”best” I ever did was a stray goose and albino and palomino rabbits]
I think most of us have this approach.
I never approve of the police killing dogs unless the dogs are actually attacking a person or pet. The dog should be impounded and the owner given a big fine, increasing if it happens again.
I own 8 acres of pasture behind my home and a neighbor down the street was taking his 4 hunting dogs out to run the pasture and often into my backyard. He was just warned to keep his dogs locked up as I feared for my little Yorkie.
Letting the dog suffer like that is sadistic.
Update: Owner of dog killed issued citation for $1092.50.
http://m.wistv.com/ms/p/a3/36/view.m?id=124279&storyId=23339730&news=Top%20Stories&news2=Main
Thank God.
Sometimes, this place makes my skin crawl.
At the very least.
[indifference to the suffering of others is one of the hallmarks of a sociopath]
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