There is no indication in the story that the bitch was in heat at the time of the shooting. I think the reckless endangerment charge is a bit much considering that the shot was birdshot from a .410 and downward into snow. Snow is a very efficent ballist energy absorber.
The shooter seems to have made the common mistake of thinking that birdshot is not deadly at close range. At close range, bird shot is very deadly, not to mention that a small dog is about the size of a large bird.
1 posted on
03/26/2010 6:01:31 PM PDT by
marktwain
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To: marktwain
A chihuahua in Alaska. Good joke potential here.
To: marktwain
“ballist” should be “ballistic”
3 posted on
03/26/2010 6:02:44 PM PDT by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Wasn’t that an over kill?
4 posted on
03/26/2010 6:03:10 PM PDT by
svcw
(Jesus comforts the uncomfortable and makes uncomfortable the comfortable.)
To: marktwain
I should have said that only the owner of the dog who was shot said the bitch was in heat at the time of the shooting.
5 posted on
03/26/2010 6:04:42 PM PDT by
marktwain
To: marktwain
not in heat, duh?
The 10-year-old Chihuahua, Faux Pas, was apparently attracted to Mueller's own dog, which was in heat, Glasgow said. Mueller's dog was in a fenced dog run in the yard, which itself is not fenced.
On the other hand, the bitch-dog was far larger than the Chihuahua. That would be one very difficult mating.
6 posted on
03/26/2010 6:04:52 PM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: marktwain
Faux Pas screwed up...????...several ways
7 posted on
03/26/2010 6:05:00 PM PDT by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: marktwain
He should be given a medal for killing a yapping little dog.
15 posted on
03/26/2010 6:11:34 PM PDT by
pissant
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To: marktwain
Faux Pas made a fatal misstep...How could he not with that name?
Mueller leveled a semiautomatic .410-bore shotgun
That is possible, but I doubt it. Those are extremely rare. Even .410 doubles are rare. This smacks of a journalist trying to add a little glamor to his story.
To: marktwain
He was probaly traumatized by Taco Bell commercials.
17 posted on
03/26/2010 6:12:03 PM PDT by
dynachrome
(Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
To: marktwain
Popping somebody’s Chihuahua with a .410?! Come on! Every Chihuahua I’ve ever met was an obnoxious wee beastie. However, I could never bring myself to so much as yell at one. The little tough guys are just too darned cute. Atomizing one with a shotgun would leave me devasted by guilt. That’s one mean old man.
18 posted on
03/26/2010 6:15:28 PM PDT by
PowderMonkey
(Will work for ammo)
To: marktwain
The dog’s name was Faux Pas. Talk about irony.
20 posted on
03/26/2010 6:15:42 PM PDT by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
To: marktwain
Aw hell, that’s barely a shotgun.
22 posted on
03/26/2010 6:17:26 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: marktwain
...when a 74-year-old man fired a shotgun out a window of his home...
Give the guy a break. Deer season was over.
23 posted on
03/26/2010 6:17:33 PM PDT by
Nachoman
(Think of life as an adventure you don't survive.)
To: marktwain
Get outta my lawn you damn Chihuahua!!!!
26 posted on
03/26/2010 6:21:00 PM PDT by
mowowie
To: marktwain
I’ve got a feeling that the commie ‘RATS and their toadies in the “media” are going to try to pin this on Sarah Palin.
30 posted on
03/26/2010 6:22:44 PM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
(We've got an expanding, fat porker government demanding that WE get skinny! I don't get it!)
To: marktwain
I’ll bet he was tired of stepping in Chui crap.
31 posted on
03/26/2010 6:24:05 PM PDT by
Randy Larsen
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Anchorage man kills neighbor's Chihuahua with shotgun(AK)
35 posted on
03/26/2010 6:27:55 PM PDT by
gitmo
( The democRats drew first blood. It's our turn now.)
To: marktwain; null and void; Jeremiah Jr
The 10-year-old Chihuahua, Faux Pas, was apparently attracted to Mueller's own dog He chose... poorly.
37 posted on
03/26/2010 6:31:24 PM PDT by
Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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46 posted on
03/26/2010 6:42:25 PM PDT by
Mr Ramsbotham
(A gentleman in the drawing room; a rapist in the boudoir.)
To: marktwain
Did the chihuahua actually trespass on to this guy’s property? If it did, doesn’t the property owner have the right to shoot any animal on his property that strays on to it?
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