The one Tony Soprano killing I cheered.
Posted on 07/26/2023 1:51:28 PM PDT by rey
Betsy Bueno got the call from a neighbor on July 10.
“It’s really bad with the dog and the horse, Betsy,” her acquaintance said. “Can you please go check?”
So Bueno drove roughly a half-mile north of her home, to a field abutting Petaluma Hill Road in unincorporated Sonoma County, to a scene she had visited many times in the preceding months. This time it was much worse.
A large German shepherd had taken a brown and white horse (known as a paint) to the ground, and was viciously attacking it. The exhausted horse thrashed and shrieked, but was unable to repel a dog that was pouncing “like a lion on an elk,” as Bueno put it. The woman started to jump the fence to intervene, but retreated when the enraged dog ran toward her. She shouted herself hoarse and threw rocks at the dog. Nothing could halt the attack.
A veterinarian wound up euthanizing the horse that day.
“I’m a strong woman,” Bueno said last week. “I was a police officer for almost 25 years, I was in the Army. I’ve seen a lot, including the fires in 2017. And I’m gonna tell you, in 64 years of life, I have never witnessed and had to deal with something as horrific as I saw. Nine days later, I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I can’t stop thinking about it.”
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I know Bueno. She has sued everyone of her neighbors. They live in fear of upsetting her or getting in her sights. How would you like the FedEx driver viewing your place when making a delivery for potential crime? She does this everywhere she goes.
It is tragic what happened to the horses but there’s a whole lot more going on here than this article let’s on.
How is a dog any match for a horse?!!!
I can see maybe a young foal, but a grown horse?
Could it be extreme neglect where the dog wants to eat something desperately?
Sounds like the horse maybe been neglected? Desperate dog attacking also weak horse?
The other horses there are fine.
Why didn’t someone kill the dog?
No gun?
First tool I'd reach for after I "got the call" is a gun, or two.
I agree with your assessment. Something stinks here.
We used to board horses on our property, and once in a while neighborhood dogs would terrorize the horses. One of our animal control officers told me that I could shoot any dogs that were endangering the horses, and I told the neighbors what would happen if they didn’t control their dogs, but I couldn’t be there all of the time, so we got a miniature donkey and kept it with the horses. Once a couple of dogs got in and scared the horses and the donkey killed both of them. Don’t get me wrong, I love dogs, but they need to be controlled.
Who does the dog belong to?
I saw my friend’s pit bull/McNab cross take down a bull. It’s rare but there are some bad a** animals out there.
In what context?
When it comes to dogs, most horses are pussies. A donkey will make short work of a dog.
As you say there is a whole lot more to this story
“I can see maybe a young foal, but a grown horse?”
From the photos it is smaller than a full size horse.
Yes. The same is legal here. However, it is the dog owner’s horse or horse owner’s dog, same thing. It would be really weird for animal control to shoot the owner’s dog that was attacking the owner’s horse.
I have seen Whipple shoot dogs attacking livestock when the livestock owner was there and ascertained that the dog was not his.
It sounds like an insurance payout scheme. Get a horse that was neglected and put it out for a mangy mutt to kill and collect the insurance.
I really hate that there are people with so little compassion for animals.
Dog belongs to horse owner.
Not an insurance scam.
I’ve got 3 horses. Two of them would gladly kill a dog.
The one Tony Soprano killing I cheered.
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